If you are working in the Creative industry and use such programs as the Adobe Creative Suite, Apple’s Keynote, Microsoft Office Apps and perhaps Parallels (to run Windows), the chances are is that your machine will result in a severe lack of memory.

Here are 5 ways to keep your applications running smoothly: 

1. Try to have only one application running (open) at any one time

2. If using a video app, an Adobe app or any type of presentation application (e.g. Powerpoint), try to run these one at a time and not simultaneously

3. When running memory intensive applications it is worth rebooting the Mac every so often. This will free up some memory

4. Try to keep some reasonable free space on your hard drive. Particularly for Adobe and some Video/rendering programmes. Many of these programs use your hard disk as virtual memory

5. If you are finding that your Mac is still slow and quitting applications after this you need a hardware memory upgrade – come and speak to us at the Machub – we are here to help.