Afternoon gurus! As per title, I have a 2009 MacBook pro which of late, has become almost unusably slow. Some functions are better than others, but Safari, for example, seems really bad along with iTunes / photos and opening PDFs and Word Documents.
I've tried all the obvious stuff I can find online, such as running the First Aid utility. I also tried downloading a Mac Cleaning tool and ran that, plus manually deleting gigabytes of old files to free up space.
Still very slow after all that so I thought I'd ask here before handing it to someone along with a bundle of cash!