Help! My MacbookPro is super slow (and the HD is only half full)

I'd appreciate any help as I can get before I have to spend a fortune upgrading to a SDS or increase the RAM memory.

I have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro (2. 4 Ghz) with:

-4 GB RAM

-500 GB HD (219 GB available)

(Please let me know if any other card would help).

My laptop is super slow, even with the most basic applications. Even if I did open and simply start Microsoft Word, it will show the wheel rotation for a good minute or so, before the opening. Of opening PDF, preview, and even changing the tabs on Firefox can match the same offset (the degree varies). Nevertheless, it is frustratingly slow, and everyone who uses my computer says this. My friends MacBook which is even older than mine doesn't have this problem.

Because I do a lot of graphic design work (using Photoshop, Lightroom and various browsers open at the same time) I was told that increase the RAM will help my problem, as would an SSD. While I understand the applications I use are eager for RAM, I can't be certain that this is my underlying problem of laptops, since even simply opening a web page is filled with serious delay (when no other application is open).

I'm also not sure if an SSD would be helpful since my HD is only half full (or empty depending on what you would look like it). This sounds like a problem with the HD cable? Or any other problem?

Thanks, I'm a novice when it comes to such things.

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Ciao.

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