macbook 10.9.4 extremely slow?

[SR 7]

Okay so I have finally had it, my macbook is extremely slow!!

I have 5gb of RAM, 500GB HD with 95GB free and I am constantly waiting anywhere from 2-3 seconds to process stuff such as when I take my mouse over a tab on my safari i have to wait before it is "clickable."

My ram fluctuates down to like 200mb free somehow when I only have Safari open and maybe iTunes "IF" that.

what is causing this? I want to chuck the damn thing.

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Oh and OMG if I accidentally take the mouse to the left corner where it shows all my screens open!!! That takes 20 seconds to go back to the regular desktop!

 

[MCAsan]

Have you looked in Activity Monitor to see which processes are eating up memory and possibly CPU cycles?

 

[SR 7]

yes it seems kernel and my safari, mainly safari!

 

[MacInTO]

Oh and OMG if I accidentally take the mouse to the left corner where it shows all my screens open!!! That takes 20 seconds to go back to the regular desktop!

When's the last time you shut it down? Try that.