Hi all, My mac mini, late 2012 model, runs the same thing, and Maverics cleanly installed, works fine, good as new, just with my iCloud loveliness. Also Chris, could you email me, off list maybe if its too OT, about the accessibility of Hadley courses on the mac? On Jun 22, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Christopher Hallsworth <christopher...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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. >>>>> -- >>>>> Christopher Hallsworth >>>>> Student at the Hadley School for the Blind >>>>> www.hadley.edu >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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