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New machine..?

The Black Oil · 2016-03-02 21:31:02

I've an early 2008 iMac running 10.11.3. It's been sluggish for a while, or rather browsing has, for relatively simple tasks. It's been a great machine, but I'm starting to find it frustrating. I've been thinking of getting another iMac, 21.5 would be fine. Maybe a refurb. Or else a new Macbook. It would leave a smaller…

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#32 07-06-2016 09:20PM

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Seeing as you have Yosemite installed, you should have a recovery partition on the HD, which means you could do a (relatively) clean install. However, it would be even "cleaner" to make a USB memory stick-based recovery drive (details) and completely wipe the HD.

I don't. It's just the 5GB installer file is still there because I never deleted it. The 2008 machine is maxed out to 4GB RAM, running 10.11.5, albeit stuttering a little re browsing, etc. So going to 10.10 as a clean install and whatever updates it'll take might be a way of freshening it up, so to speak. That, or reinstall El Capitan, I guess.

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