Mac getting slow ...

My mac os x version is 10.7.5 , my laptop getting slow in between working on text files and watching videos.. It did not get hot but exhaust fan starts working ... It becomes normal after sometime but it happens soon after some time againMAC g

The next time you have the problem, note the exact times when it starts and ends: hour, minute, second.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Console in the page that opens.
Make sure the title of the Console window is All Messages. If it isn't, select All Messages from the SYSTEM LOG QUERIES menu on the left.
Scroll back in the log to the time you noted above. Post any messages timestamped during that interval – the text, please, not a screenshot.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into a message.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Edit it out by search-and-replace in a text editor before posting.

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Dear All,
Hope you had a great Christmas!!
As I mentioned, after I upgrade my OS X10.4 to 10.5 Leopard my Mac gets very slow to start the machine. Normally takes less than minute to start to operate, but now it takes long time to load.
First I thought it because of my hard drive running low space so I moved most of files to my external hard drive, left 57G free space but nothing is improved.
Any ideas why? Anyone knows how to improve the speed?
Thanks for your helps!
Michael

Sounds plenty sufficient to me.
according to a quick google search, mdworker is related to spotlight, indexing what/where/content of files.
there may be other ppc stuff lurking, especially if this is not your first mac and you used migration wizard to move from a PPC to intel mac.
Thats what I did...and was quite unhappy with the perfrmance.
I finally found a QT plugin that was (one of the things) killing my quads performance. (select the plugin, do a get info, it'll tell you if its PPC or universal) QT plugins do not show in activity monitor.
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with no programs open other than activity monitor, whats using a high percentage of processor?
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Hi,
I have a 8 Core Mac Pro, with 10 Gb of Ram. I did a clean restore, and manually installed the programs. I'v had SL for a week, and I'v noticed a decrease in speed. At startup, its slower and I have unchecked everything at login menu. Programs that used to take 10-15 seconds to open, like Photoshop are now taking double that time or more, (the first time opening it).
I'v read that if you hold 6 & 4 while restarting the computer, the mac then runs in 64 bit. Since I do have all the qualifications to run in 64, would I benefit from this, since most of the programs I use are not meant to run in 64?
The sluggishness has happened to me before in 10.5. After every clean restore it would go slower as time went by. I was told to disable all login items, and I did, which sped up my mac for a while. I can't understand why this happens, I don't install many 3rd party apps that are unknown. I don't feel like my mac is really using all my processors and ram as best as it could as it gets stuck for a half a minute at times with SL. I repaired permissions, but nothing seems to help.
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Go down there before you 90 days are up and tell them the Norton AV ware is causing havoc on your system, remove it. Basic steps to speed up your computer is repairing permissions from Utilities, reset the PRAM,NVRAM:
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Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
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Thanks for your suggestions. I've updated the software already (noticing that it was system, i-movie and garage band which were being updated) but that didn't help. Previously that did help for i-photo though.
Anyway, I tried the sudo thing, I got the following messages but still no i-movie :
updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/MetadataLib.dy lib for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/Resources/MetadataLib.dy lib for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
updatedyld_sharedcache: warning mismatched install path in /System/Library/CoreServices/RawCamera.bundle/Contents/MacOS/RawCamera for /usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib
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My mac is getting slower what to do????

my mac is getting slower what to do????Please

Start with this comprehensive troubleshooting article:
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Ciao.
An early 2011 MBP would have 10.6 installed, not 10.5. I assume that is a typographical error or is the MBP model year incorrect?
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If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Launch the Console application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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Step 1
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Enter "BOOT_TIME" (without the quotes) in the search box. Note the timestamps of those log messages, which refer to the times when the system was booted. Now clear the search box and scroll back in the log to the last boot time when you had the problem. Select the messages logged after the boot, during the time something abnormal was happening. Copy them to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C. Paste into a reply to this message (command-V).
For example, if the problem is a slow startup taking three minutes, post the messages timestamped within three minutesafter the boot time, not before. Please include the BOOT_TIME message at the beginning of the log extract.
If there are runs of repeated messages, post only one example of each. Don’t post many repetitions of the same message.
When posting a log extract, be selective. In most cases, a few dozen lines are more than enough.
Please do not indiscriminately dump thousands of lines from the log into this discussion.
Important: Some private information, such as your name, may appear in the log. Anonymize before posting.
Step 2
Still in Console, look under System Diagnostic Reports for crash or panic logs, and post the entire contents of the most recent one, if any. In the interest of privacy, I suggest you edit out the “Anonymous UUID,” a long string of letters, numbers, and dashes in the header of the report, if present (it may not be.) Please don’t post any other kind of diagnostic report, such as hang logs — they're very long and not helpful.

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