HOW TO TUNE UP MY MACBOOK PRO

OS X Mavericks: If your Mac runs slowly?

Spotlight indexing make computer run slowly after a fresh installation of OS X.

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13895

Startup in Safe Mode

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14204

Repair Disk

Steps 1 through 7

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH5836

Reset SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964

Choose the method for:

"Resetting SMC on portables with a battery you should not remove on your own".

First, open disk utility.

Choose your boot drive.

Veryify disk permissions.

Repair disk Permissions.

If that doesn't work, what size hard drive do you have and how much of it is full?

You should try and keep about 60-75% of your HDD empty. Otherwise, you computer has to search everywhere on the disk to try and locate the data you need. And this is happening constantly.

Also, how much ram do you have and your CPU? RAM upgrades are by far the fastest and easiest ways to speed up your Mac.

Was you MBP slow before your upgrade you Mavericks? If it seems Mavericks is what has slowed it down, you should do a clean install of it. Back up all of your data in Time Machine and then boot your computer holding cmd+r. open disk Utility and erase the HD. Power off. Reboot. Wait. Reinstall Mavericks. Reload your files.

Look at this comprehensive document:

https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3521

Usually the HDD is the best place to start.

Ciao.

If your computer was running fine before you installed the Mavericks upgrade then:

1) is Spotlight still indexing? (click on the spyglass icon in the upper left corner of your display)

2) do you have at least 8 GB RAM? With a conventional hard drive 4GB really isn't sufficient-an SSD makes all the difference in the world.

3) is your hardrive more than 85-90% full?

4) are your programs up to date?

5) if you are running anti-malware software or 'cleaning' software uninstall them. These programs should have uninstallers. Don't just through the program in the applications folder away.

I've installed Mavericks dozens of times (I'm in the computer biz) and in most cases one or more of the about 5 questions led to a happy Mavericks user. In a few rare cases it was necessary to perform one last backup, delete the drive and reinstall Mavericks fresh.