Oh how spooky! That's mine as well! Since it is my first mac I didn't
for example max out the memory. Still Mavericks after this clean install
seems to run quite optimally.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 22/06/2014 17:57, Daniel McGee wrote:
Hi again Chris. Yes, I can see how that would make sense for OSX to
automatically default to the recovery partition once the hard drive has been
wiped. At least, one would hope that this would be its behaviour.
Hey what do you know. I too got my Mac Book pro a late 2011 13 inch model.
Specks: 500GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM.
On 22 Jun 2014, at 17:16, Christopher Hallsworth <christopher...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello Daniel
As for me I did straight updates from Lion which was preinstalled on my late
2011 MBP to Mavericks and so no wonder rubbish have been accumulated. Lol! Well
I don't know very much about this but the mac does offer internet recovery
which can be invoked with command-option-r after the chimes or it will be
invoked automatically if no recovery partition exists and presumably the mac is
wiped clean.
Christopher Hallsworth
Student at the Hadley School for the Blind
www.hadley.edu
On 22/06/2014 14:32, Daniel McGee wrote:
Hello Chris, am glad to hear that by performing a clean install you are
experiencing lots of improvements. Out of interest, before you did the clean
install did you upgrade from any previous version or versions of OSX?
As for myself, for the clean install folks this may sound crazy but I've been doing
straight updates from Lion and as of yet, I haven't experienced any problems with any
upgrade. "If it aint broken, don't fix it." I guess that's my motto. lol
However, I may consider performing one when the new OSX comes out in the
Autumn. Partly, I'm keen to experience it myself without any sighted help and
because well to get rid of some of the rubbish that my system may of
accumulated since 2011 when I brought my MBP. Like Chris, I could do with a bit
of a speed boost myself and so think I'll give it a shot come autumn! .
Chris, and others I have a question about clean installs. Sure, I know why it
is a good idea to create the installer on a flash drive but my question is
this: If one was in a situation where they didn't have a flash drive for
whatever reason and they erased/wiped and reformatted the hard drive that is on
there system and restarted the Mac computer and held down command R to bring up
the recovery partition, Would it be possible to install OSX from the recovery
partition by obviously having an internet connection to download the OS and go
from there to setup there new system.
Basically, what I am trying to say is that without any backup media of an
installer would it still be possible to clean install OSX with just the
recovery partition and an internet connection without nothing else. As a side
note: obviously you wouldn't do this but what would happen if a novist
completely wiped there Mac OS restarted, heard the chine sound and waited.
Would it just simply be well... broken? Hence, why a backup media of the
installer would certainly be a life saver.
Thanks for any answers in advance.
Daniel
On 22 Jun 2014, at 11:21, Christopher Hallsworth <christopher...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello everybody
Well my clean install of Os X 10.9 Mavericks is going very well. My startup
time has been dramatically improved thanks to the clean install from over a
minute to about half that time maybe less. It certainly can help to do a clean
install if you have issues like that. And when I say clean install I mean that.
Restructure your disc and reinstall the operating system from scratch. As you
have seen from my note the other day I used my USB flash drive with the
Mavericks Installer created with Diskmakerx rather than the recovery partition.
I like to have my installer on file in case my internet is out of action which
would be required if installing from the recovery partition since the installer
base image isn't actually stored on the partition.
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www.hadley.edu
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