Mary-Elisabeth is an associate writer on CNET's How-To team. She's a recent graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill's English Department, and resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. On the How-To team, she covers a ...

It’s quite common for computers to slow down over time. A decrease in performance usually results in a drop in system efficiency, which corresponds directly with its performance. Even though the ...

Apple today released macOS 12 Monterey, and whenever a new operating system is released for the Mac, some users prefer to perform a clean installation. This article explains how to perform what is ...

Disk Utility is Apple's go-to macOS app for finding and repairing common disk errors, but if it's your Mac's internal disk that's the problem, then your Mac might not even start up into macOS.

Managing storage space on Macs can be tricky, especially if you own one of the lower storage capacity models. Even though Apple offers a native macOS tool to give you a detailed breakdown of how much ...

If you depend on Apple MacBook for business computing tasks while you're on the road, you probably use the optical drive to perform necessary functions such as burning data backups to disc or for ...