Problem(s) with my Snow Leopard Macbook Pro

hi guys , gals, first post , unfortunately not happy one, please bear me going try , explain every step have taken if mistake of own making has caused problems, guys can tell me

purchased 15"4 macbook pro (2.2ghz quad-core, 4gb 1333hz ddr3 ram, 750gb hd, 1gb discreet graphics card), heavily discounted jan 2011 model (8,2 think), didn't deter me accustomed snow leopard on old mac, , specs of computer perfect needed.

there giddy , happy computer running, install , asks if want migrate time machine, saw no brainer (at time) needed old files why not straight off? goes on while finish off installation , omg slowwww. literally couldn't done. old 2007 macbook (the white one) running faster it.

looked around , found migration time machine imports old crappy system files cause mac slow down. time clean reinstall!

reinstall fresh copy of snow leopard, wiping data on hd, , once installed seemed ok, didn't pay massive amounts of attention speed running at, happy running mac didn't take 2 mins load finder.

start bring of documents on old mac, no programs, of old folders, pictures, movies etc. , seemed working fine. bring on dmg files programs using (ms office 2011, illustrator + ps cs5, vlc media player, autocad 2012, skype, sketchup, , utorrent) , problems started arise again.. i'm starting bit annoyed, finder slow (but manageable), safari bugs every , again, skype slows computer down, , ms office 2011 difficult @ times.

havn't done out of ordinary (to knowledge), have done had done on old mac success cant see problem lies... please help

many thanks, m3tolli

 

it sounds me did correctly. doesn't make sense computer slow down merely installing software. have checked disk filesystem errors? when things slow, activity monitor show culprits (processes gulping available memory, maxing out cpu)? , you're not out of disk space, you?

 

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