Will packing my MacBook Pro 2018 with apps I rarely use slow it down?

[jkundi]

Hi all, I'm curious to know if having multiple apps on my MacBook Pro which I rarely/or don't use could potentially decrease the performance of my Mac? For example: I use the Adobe suits (Photoshop/Lightroom mostly), there are numerous apps I don't use but come with the subscription which I've installed.

Thanks
Jas

 

[Apple_Robert]

What slows down the Mac is filling the SSD storage space up such that proper file swapping and garbage maintenance can’t be performed like it should.

If you have plenty of SSD space available on your drive, you shouldn’t see any slow down, especially if you aren’t actively accessing programs and files that you have been storing on the Mac.

The rule of thumb with SSD is to keep at least 20% of the drive space free for optimal drive health and Mac performance.

 

[TiggrToo]

Hi all, I'm curious to know if having multiple apps on my MacBook Pro which I rarely/or don't use could potentially decrease the performance of my Mac? For example: I use the Adobe suits (Photoshop/Lightroom mostly), there are numerous apps I don't use but come with the subscription which I've installed.

Thanks
Jas

The real issue is how many are started when you log in. As long as you have enough free disk space (I personally feel that 40GB should be ample) then the number of installed Apps in and of itself, should be a problem.

 

[Fishrrman]

Additional apps won't slow it down, so long as you don't open them until you NEED them.
For best performance, just keep open what you need to be using at the moment.

 

[ignatius345]

The only thing I've found slows down my Mac even if I don't use it is Adobe Creative Cloud. There is always some crappy piece of it sucking away CPU cycles, even if none of the apps are running. It even launches itself at startup on secondary user accounts. Looking through their user forums, seems like a problem for a lot of people on Mac and PC.