I was helping a buddy who is even less IT minded than myself to cure his slow laptop. MacBook Pro 2008, new style running Mavericks. He complained that it took a bit longer to access his mails through the mail program than normal. On examination ALL the apps seem to be 'sluggish' and I thought that his RAM might be too low. 4GB capacity, but only 2GB installed. I did some housekeeping and that didn't have any appreciable effect. Loads of capacity on the hard drive. He was using ML before and that was slow too…..
I then did the option/ctrl/shift and on button thing for 10secs and then the laptop came on, all ok, except…….same as before. Any suggestions apart from a visit to the genius bar ?
SHJ