OS X’s Activity Monitor is an essential tool to help you keep your system in good shape. In this report we tell you what it is and some ways to use it. Activity Monitor lets you watch your Mac ...

Check out how to use Activity Monitor to make your Mac faster. Activity Monitor can help you analyze your computer usage and fix problems.

Sometimes, your Mac slows down for mysterious reasons. Activity Monitor can help you identify misbehaving apps, and shut them down if necessary, to speed things up again, as staff writer Lex ...

To see if your Mac is using storage as RAM, look at the Swap Used indicator at the bottom of Activity Monitor. Observing Activity Monitor even for a few seconds is enough to see how the most ...

Activity Monitor for Mac Activity Monitor is a little know gem of an app hidden in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder. It can look daunting when you first launch it but once you look ...

Activity Monitor details five different resources: CPU, Memory, Energy, Disk, and Network usage. Switch between them by clicking on the tabs at the top of the windows.

OS X comes with a built-in application called Activity Monitor, which gives you a general overview of what your MacBook is doing. Running the Activity Monitor app is useful if you want to see how ...

In the past few versions of OS X, Apple has not changed Activity Monitor much; however, once you install OS X Mavericks you will see significant changes.

The Activity Monitor in macOS may not be as accurate with the data it provides to Apple Silicon users, with a report claiming the tool cannot properly tell the difference between performance and ...

Activity Monitor is Mac OS's process manager, similar in function to Windows Task Manager. In this utility you can see every process running on your computer, how much memory it is using, stop ...

After installing Mac OS X Snow Leopard, some people may notice that Activity Monitor reports a smaller amount of RAM than what is installed in the system. For instance, my MacBook Pro has 4GB of ...