Using Activity Monitor To Your Advantage

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Activity Monitor is a free utility included with Macs. It is super useful. To find it go to Finder, then Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor. 

It can tell you what is happening with your CPU, RAM, Drives, and Network. I find it most useful to use it to see how much RAM and CPU each app and process on my MacBook Pro is using. It helped me realize that I needed to upgrade my Mac from the factory 2GB of RAM to the maximum 8GB.

So, if your Mac is running slower than usually Activity Monitor will help you out a lot. Also if your fans are blaring the CPU portion and features of Activity Monitor will be able to show you what process are eating up the CPU.

Overall, Activity Monitor is just a great, and very useful application. And since it is free and comes pre-installed on every new Mac there’s no hassle getting it.