Mac book pro is very slow

Solution 1:

The things to look for first are:

• Cluttered desktop
• Less then 10% of free HD space
• Not enough RAM

Here is a list of 17 reasons why a Mac could be slow.

When you take a look at it, I'm sure one of them is causing this slow speed problem on your Mac. In my case I caught five similar violations. :)

Solution 2:

Apple recommends this for many problems and its useful to know how to do:

Try making a new user: System Preferences/ Users and Groups / hit + for new user.

Log out of your current user account and log into the new (clean) user.

Restart computer in new user.

If that helped at all there may be things loading when your computer starts up in your user account that you can selectively turn off to attempt to speed things up.