I've been trying to speed up my macbookpro because it seems to have slowed down lately. I talked to Matt Gauger and he suggested turning off my dashboard if I wasn't using it.
How to disable your dashboard in OSX
Open terminal and paste this command in.
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
Attempt to launch dashboard. If it doesn't, you win!
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