Nevertheless, despite the aforementioned reservations, yesterday afternoon I downloaded and installed the free version of Memory Clean on an early 2009 24' iMac with 4 GB of RAM, in order to determine if it really lives up to its claims.Īfter letting it run for perhaps three hours yesterday, and seeing how it performed - manually using the clean option does in fact regain a certain percentage of fragmented memory - I decided to take the plunge and paid the $5.00 for the more advanced extreme clean version.įolks, I can tell you from firsthand observation that there is no hype here. All you are really doing is giving the forefront app more processing power, while denying it to the rest. It may seem to be accelerated if you use one of those apps which rely on adjusting the nice parameter of your running processes, but it is basically an illusion.

Not only that, but a computer can't operate any faster than its actual clock speed. One reason is that a Mac will naturally regain most of the lost memory after using a memory hog, if given enough time to do so, even if you don't reboot the machine. I have always been skeptical regarding apps which claim to accelerate a Mac, or which claim to recover fragmented memory. This, in my view, is a smarter, more positive marketing approach which will attract more users.Ĭharging extra should be reserved for major product version updates and significant functionality improvements, and not just for the ability to change a few colors, in my view. There are many developers - including developers of free apps - who will change their app's icon, or add additional theme options to it, who don't charge a penny. Yes, the 'Extreme Clean' version of Memory Clean is rather cheap - thank you for that - nevertheless, charging extra just to change the colors in the already-purchased version of your app does not sit well with me, and I think that others will tend to agree with me. To charge more for what should really be a natural part of the update flow is a bit ludicrous, and perhaps greedy as well. However, for users who have ALREADY purchased the 'Extreme Clean' version of Memory Clean, it is my view that extra themes should be freely included in any future updates of the app. I can understand if the developer might want to charge an additional fee for extra themes for the free version of Memory Clean, but even then, it should be a one-time fee which covers ALL themes, and NOT an additional fee for each individual extra theme.

While I truly appreciate what this app does - and thus, I purchased the 'Extreme Clean' version of this same app in the Mac App Store - I feel that it is a bad move on the part of the developer to charge additional fees in order to access the extra themes.

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