I have a late 2008 macbook pro with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 memmory. Its starting to lag and is generally getting a little slow. It's running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5. How can i "update" it or just improve it's efficiency?

help

zibiva,
depending upon what you use your Late 2008 Aluminum MacBook for, you could increase your RAM from 2 GB to 4 GB or 8 GB; you could replace its hard disk drive with a SSD; and/or you could examine what software is currently in regular use, to see if any of those apps is contributing to the slowdown. If you haven’t done so already, you could download and install EtreCheck, and include the output from running EtreCheck in your reply, to see if anything there stands out as being particularly CPU- or RAM-intensive.

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