My Macbook Pro is extremely S-L-O-W!

Hello,

I need advice on how to speed up my macbook pro. It was fine until 5 months ago. Now it seems as though it takes forever to load. Everything comes up at a snails pace. I can't figure out why. Does the information I have attached indicate why?
Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2 GHz
Number of Processors: 1
Total Number of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MB51.007D.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.32f8
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Available: 361.4 GB (361,404,276,736 bytes)
Capacity: 499.25 GB (499,248,103,424 bytes)

My Mactracker app says this is a late 2008 Aluminum MacBook not a MacBook Pro as you state above. So first make sure you have the right model machine. Also, which version of OS X is installed?

If it's a 2008 MacBook, well that's seven years old now and with a weak graphics chipset I would not be at all surprised if it was struggling to do stuff like Google Earth. But if everything is slow, chances are good that your hard drive is trying to tell you it's on its last legs.

you could try downloading the correct version of onyx for your OS (link below), and running its utilities - see if that helps. Otherwise make sure you've got a thorough back up just in case your hard drive is failing.

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The MB 5.1 can handle 6GB of memory which may show a little more response. The only way to bring it somewhat up to date is by investing in an SSD. Pop over to OWC Mac specialists and check out the range.



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