Help for beloved MacbookPro (LATE 2008 model - (slow) with 10.8.4  OS 4g memory

Hi
My am using a 2008 MBP which appears to have difficuoly in loading programs,  Or even at log in!   Please advise.  BTW I ave removed old binary files etc with no difference noted.  That Beach ball is driving me mad.
Can amyone suggest a reason for this?  Ot is it wear amd tear (!!) - it is 4 years young.  I adore it.
Thank you and apologies for ignorance in advance!
Sandy
note  --       My Imac which I left happily at Snow Leopard is still faster than the MBPro and older!

Metacalf,
I have the same model MacBook Pro as you, and I’m running OS X 10.9.4 on mine without problems. I’d highly recommend that you upgrade your RAM; our model can work with 16 GB of RAM when Mac OS X 10.7.5 or newer is installed. I’ve got 8 GB in mine, but I’m not doing any video editing; you’d probably find 16 GB to be best. If your video editing is disk-bound, then you’d also benefit by replacing your internal HDD with a SSD.

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