Macbook slow

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I have a normal Macbook (the white one - so I so clueless I don't even know if there is a model name or whatever but for some reason 10.3 rang a bell). But, anyway - recently it began running soooooooooooooooo slow, seriously. Like the little rainbow wheel will spin and spin forever and ever and the computer has frozen a coulple of times.

In all honesty, I do not do anything scandalous online, and I might be misguided - but someone told me macs do not get viruses.

Has this happened to anyone else? Does anyone know what might be wrong and any potential at home fixes? I really don't want to go into the Mac store and pay a fortune.

So grateful for any advice - thank you!
 

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Let's clean up your Mac first. Download OnyX and run some of the maintenance in there, particularly under the cleaning tab. Although nothing should go wrong afterwords, I recommend backing up beforehand (just in case). You shouldn't have to backup but better safe than sorry.
 
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thank you!

I have a few macbooks. I usually use my macbook pro but it crashed today so i'm using my regular white macbook (2006) and it is SO slow. I just did the Onyx clean up and it is a 1000 times faster! Thanks so much for that info. :D
 
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Ragel select apple icon top left menu bar and then select About This Mac - that has all the basic info about your MacBook right there
 

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