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Hi, I don't know if this is in the right forum, so my apologies in advance.
My laptop has been running very inefficiently for quite a few months. I often get the little rainbow circle spinning with websites. When I click something, there often is a pause, then the rainbow. With videos, the sound often works but the video ends up freezing in an attempt to catch up. (My solution for this is to press "pause" and allow things to sync up, but trying to activate the pause button often means nothing happens for 30 seconds until it actually activates). In fact, while typing this, I made a correction and the rainbow came up for LITERALLY a minute or more, then disappeared, and I had to wait an addition 2 minutes in order to type, which ended up being 10 minutes of this BS till I decided to cut and paste into a document so I could write without hassle. Truth be told, the latter is an anomaly, but considering Flash often crashes on my Safari, it may stand to reason?
And today I rebooted my computer after a night's sleep, so it's not like it's not fresh! I only have Word, an IM program, and my email open, if that says anything. My Safari has 5 tabs open.
So I wonder if my computer needs to be cleaned up? Or has the past few years been unkind to my computer, and the Internet is just too heavy for my computer's current capabilities?
And, on a related note, is MacKeeper worth it? I could be naive in that it's the solution to my problems, but their ads smack of hucksterism so I don't know.
I'm sure I'll need to give more info but here's what I can tell you now:
13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008
Processor 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
Memory 2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB
Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53)
Thanks a bunch . . . help me!

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