How often do people fresh install Mac OS

Never

OSX just doesnt need it the same way the older versions of windows does.With each upgrade (Snow Leopard, Lion) my OSX installation got smaller !

Windows 7 i do find is better, but theres no doubting that XP / Vista could be a right PITA
 
Only ever done one fresh reinstall on any of my Macs, and that was following a HDD failure. Other than that, no real need to really!
 
Ive had my first mbp for 18 months and I did my first reinstall of SL then put lion straight on. The only reason I did it was because I have been messing around with it lots as its new to me so just felt I should do a refresh :)
 
Johnny|lucidcomposure said:
Major OS releases. Simple fact is it doesn't require it.

I had to reinstall Windows every 4 months or something because it felt bloated and slow. Despite any kind of cleaning of it (which by the way was a mission and a half) it never felt nippy.

OS X always feels nippy and on the ball.
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When was the last had?

Vista and Win7 sorted the major slowdown that XP had. I've run various installs of both Vista and 7 for several years and only ever reinstalled when upgrading to Windows 7. XP on the other hand I used to do every 6ish months and the slowdown would be massive.

So Win7 and OSX need about as much maintenance as each other... ie none. It's just old fashioned people who insist on changing stuff because they think they are still using a 10 year old OS. All you need to do is install the OS, install an AV (on both yes) and then change the background picture and colours to your liking. Anything else is because you want to rather than need to.
 
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Every few months, but only to get fid of all the crap that quickly builds up. Peformance has never changed.

Same with Windows 7.
 
Never unless there's actually a reason to do so. It just doesn't make any difference. The only 're-installs' I've done were updates 10.4 --> 10.5 --> 10.6.
 
Had the same install on my 2006 Macbook since I got it. Went from the stock 60GB HDD to a 200GB one after a few weeks and just cloned it over. Then upgraded from Tiger to Leopard and then Snow Leopard without fresh installs.
 
Never, other than OS upgrades. I'm still using a user profile that originated on my 2006 MBP which shipped with 10.4 Tiger. When I moved to a new machine migration assistant copied all my profile and applications across.

It hardly ever gets rebooted outside of security updates from Apple which insist on it.

Re-installs to keep the speed up are for Windows XP users. :D
 
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