newly installed el capitan on 2010 Mac is slow. what to do?

Rob Phillips

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Welcome to iMore! Well, your Mac is six years old. It's understandable that it's slow. You might try to run a system recovery and return your Mac to factory defaults but you may lose stuff saved on your hard drive, depending on how you have things stored and backed up.