

#MEMORY CLEAN FOR MAC REVIEWS FREE#
If it could free the maximum amount of system memory in a single pass, instead of requiring two or three, it would rate 5.

This is not an issue most users will ever encounter, and Teleport tends to disable itself spontaneously on occasion, so I don’t count this against Memory Cleaner.Īll things considered, I give Memory Cleaner 4-1/2 out of 5 LEMs. When I run Memory Cleaner on the Mac mini, it almost always disables Teleport, requiring me to open System Preferences and reactivate it. The only issue I’ve run into is an incompatibility with Teleport, a program that allows me to control multiple Macs with one mouse and one keyboard. If your Mac has 2 GB or less of physical memory, it could make the difference between a lot of slowdowns due to use of virtual memory and having enough available system memory for better overall performance under Lion. I don’t have OS X 10.7 Lion (nor do I plan to buy it), so I can’t tell you how well Memory Cleaner works with it, but since Lion is even more memory hungry than Snow Leopard, it should be every bit as useful. Even with a lot of apps running, I almost always have at least 1 GB of free memory (so I would probably have been happy with 2 GB of RAM – still, better safe than sorry), but it’s nice to know that if I should get close to capacity, I still have the option of running Memory Cleaner to free up a bit more RAM.
#MEMORY CLEAN FOR MAC REVIEWS UPGRADE#
Needless to say, when I could afford it, I bought a 3 GB memory upgrade from Other World Computing, and my Mac mini has never been happier. If you are short on memory, it can be a good stop gap until you can afford an upgrade.

You are better off installing more memory, but that will cost a lot more than the $5.99 price of Memory Cleaner. Memory Cleaner will let you wring the most out of your Intel Mac and can really help in low memory situations.

And if you run a lot of apps (I usually have Mail, NetNewsWire, TextWrangler, TextSoap, Spam Sieve, Camino, and at least one other browser – Safari, Firefox, or Chrome – running, and I’m often using Photoshop Elements 3.0 and/or BlueGriffon as well), you’ll want even more. With Snow Leopard, 1.5 GB gives you a bit of breathing room, but 2 GB is much better. With Leopard, your Intel-based Mac should have at least 1.5 GB of system memory to allow for running several programs simultaneously. Memory Cleaner can make a 1 GB Mac with OS X 10.5 Leopard more useful and squeeze a bit more out of a 1 GB OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Mac, but that’s only a stopgap. Running it a third time often adds a bit more, but there’s no real benefit from running it four or more times in a row.
