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Well the plan is to do a clean install, on a fresh new SSD. I'm not going to do a migration. The media files I want are backed up and my Adobe Creative Suite and MS Office are on disc so can be reinstalled from scratch. Everything else is basically free and easily downloadable: Chrome, Firefox...

I don't have any of that anti virus nonsense or junk like Mackeeper. The free space is pretty good. Got well over 100GB free so that shouldn't be an issue

I hadn't realised until today that the machine can actually support up to 8GB of RAM, despite what Apple say. For 80 bob that would seem a good option. Might even get a few quid eBaying the RAM it replaces? So if the SSD costs me about £120 then that and the memory should get the job done for...

Oh ok. Well since I killed Flash there's nothing that's eating into resources massively. I think I'm going to book it into the store to see if they can identify anything specific before I go down the route of a new OSX install. But assuming there is no crippling hardware issue I'm definitely...

Reassuring. It seems several folk with similar machines are getting far better performance than I am, which makes me think that some further investigations may be required instead of me giving up on it and eBaying it. Since running the Repair Disk Permissions utility it is now idling at around...

Ruddy heck, the Disk Utility seems to be taking its sweet time and has already found several hundred issues. Certainly seems to have been a good place to start. I hadn't thought of taking it to the Apple shop. Frustratingly it is only recently that the extended Apple Care warranty expired too...

Activity Monitor currently reports the CPU is about 70% idle. Predictably the biggest resource hogs are my two browsers (I use both Chrome and Firefox, for work) and Flash, which actually, I wouldn't miss. Think I might go and deactivate that. It isn't particularly hot and it makes no noise...

Cheers for the advice. Sounds like I'm not asking too much to expect a bit more from it then. I wonder whether upgrading to Mountain Lion was a mistake. And would I be better off back on Lion, or even Snow Leopard? I have heard a lot of good things about the huge performance boosts gained...

Alright chaps? Anyone good with Macs? My 2009 MacBook is painfully slow and awkward, making it difficult to get anything done on it. Were I a wealthy man I'd simply replace it with a new one, but the sort of money involved makes that a no no. I just wonder whether there are any performance...