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4. MacPurge Download

Offers a "cold disk buffer cache" which is similar to the state of the OS after a reboot.

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MacPurge Editor's review

MacPurge for Mac improves the performance of your machine by manually clearing the disk and memory caches, replicating the effects of a full-system reboot. It's extremely basic, with no options to configure and just one function: performance optimization.

The main screen of MacPurge for Mac consists of two tabs laid out in an identical way: one is for Mac OS 10.7 and 10.8, while the other is for 10.9. This separation is needed because of the many hood improvements Apple introduced in Mac OS X Mavericks. Under each of the two tabs you'll find a "Purge" button that will clear the caches on your machine, an operation that takes only a few seconds and requires an administrator password every time it's performed. After using this app, we can't say we noticed a striking performance boost, though the next few apps did launch more quickly.

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