Has anyone found the way to fix Mavericks from turning their MBP into a snail?

I have an early 2011 MBP.  2.0ghz with 4gb of RAM.  I have plenty of space on my HDD(140GB) which is not "failing".  Just like about 90% of other users, my mac has slowed way way down since "upgrading" to Mavericks.  Easily half the speed it was since the upgrade.  Oh yeah, I upgraded over a week ago.  So it isn't the "give it 72 hours" line of BS.
Any real answers?  Will Apple help anyone with this?

Thanks for the info.  RAM on the way.  Just as a matter of opinion.  Why would Apple nearly force this operating system on me by popping it up on my updates list every other day?  After I finally gave in,(with great concern that it would do more harm than good, because frankly, my computer was running great already)  I might of seen a spinning balloon once a week, maybe for a second or two, and that was with a ton of things working.  Including Premiere Pro, Firefox, and maybe another adobe program open.  Switch to Mavericks, and I can't even open Firefox without havng to wait for atleast 5 seconds of spinning balloon. 
Then when I looked up to see why I was having problems, I saw tons of people with the same exact problem.
And this is months and months of the same exact complaints with absolutely no answers and no changes.  Kind of like an automobile company witholding information about defects while its customers die from them.
Let me tell you what I think is actually happening.  The guy who loved the company the most, and wanted to provide a quality product, first and foremost, died.  I sadly predict we are watching Apple downshift its way into Microsoft Mediocrity.

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