
But a background process or smaller app shouldn’t be using that much power. Should it be using that much power? If Photoshop is working with a big file or Final Cut, Pro is rendering an effect, fine. Are any using more than their fair share? If any process or app uses more than around 20%, it’s worth a closer look.
Look at the processes at the top of the list. Click at the top of the column labeled CPU to order processes according to the CPU cycles they are using. Go to Applications > Utilities and launch Activity Monitor. The first thing to do is find out if there are any processes or apps that are causing your Mac to run more slowly. CleanMyMac X cleans your Mac of junk files that can interfere with other programs’ performance. A crashed file or outdated junk may be culprits that make your Mac run slowly. To the extent that it’s possible to do without final hardware in-hand, we’ll cover the new macOS features that will be native to Apple Silicon Macs and outline how the software side of the transition will go.Many of the reasons that cause the slow performance of macOS Big Sur are common to other versions of macOS. We’ll cover the operating system’s new look and new features-the things that any Big Sur Mac will be able to do, regardless of whether it’s running on an Intel or an Apple Silicon Mac. We won’t be making any major changes to how we approach this review, either. This ought to be a smooth transition, most of the time. It may even be a bit less disruptive than Catalina was. Almost everything will still work the same way-or, at least, Big Sur doesn’t break most software any more than older macOS 10 updates did. Early betas were even labeled as macOS 10.16, and Big Sur can still identify itself as version 10.16 to some older software in order to preserve compatibility.
Further Reading macOS 10.15 Catalina: The Ars Technica reviewīut unlike the jump from Mac OS 9 to Mac OS X, where Apple swept away almost every aspect of its previous operating system and built a new one from the foundation up, macOS 11 is still fundamentally macOS 10.