![]() If your Mac is always under a high CPU usage condition and responds slowly, you should check for available macOS system and software updates. Update apps and Mac system to optimize Mac CPU usage When your Mac CPU is close to 100 percent usage, you should shut down your Mac, wait for a few seconds, and then restart it. Restarting is an easy and effective way to quickly bring your Mac to good condition. Then click the Force Quit button to confirm your operation. After that, you can click on the grey x icon in the top-left corner of the window. Similarly, you should go to the Activity Monitor window, locate the app you don't use, click and highlight it. You can easily force quit some unused applications to speed up your Mac and reduce its CPU usage. This part will share several useful tips to help you lower the Mac CPU usage. ![]() How to reduce CPU usage on Mac? After you know the CPU usage of a Mac, you can use different methods to decrease CPU usage and improve Mac's performance. How to Reduce or Lower the CPU Usage on a Mac There are probably other methods as well, but these two are detailed and give you the information you need.įor the record, and for more average Mac users, there is a much easier way to get this information, just go to “About This Mac” under the Apple menu.Part 2. Still in the Terminal, enter the following command string: On the other hand, if you don’t want the model number and simply want processor name, speed, and the number of processors, you can use grep with system_profiler. How to Get CPU Processor Details of Mac via Terminal with system_profiler That detailed output of sysctl is advantageous because it reports back the chip model as well. This is basically in the following format: Chip Brand – Processor Type and Chip Model – CPU Speed ![]() The example output may look like any of the following: To get started, launch the Terminal in Mac OS, located in /Applications/Utilities/ and then issue the commands as follows, depending on the CPU information you’d like to reveal.įirst we’ll use sysctl because it give us everything on one easy to read line: How to Find Mac Processor Details & CPU Speed via Command Line with sysctl These tricks work on virtually all Mac OS versions and CPU architecture types. ![]() We’ll show two ways to grab a Macs CPU details from the command line of MacOS and Mac OS X. ![]()
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