*** The Official OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 Thread ***
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Tomorrow, although when that'll happen isn't clear? Probably in the early evening for us.
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ML comes out tomorrow, but I am anxious to know what is the "best" way to upgrade from SL. Can anyone answer the above?
rp2000
It probably makes no odds to be honest, if you did do a clean install you're only going to fill it again with all your old settings you have/had in the TM backup. Perhaps after run some clean up actions, like some listed in this link:
http://www.chriswrites.com/2012/01/17-ways-to-speed-up-mac-os-x-lion/
You can't beat a good clean installation though! I love me a clean install.
I'd say if you were on a install that is pretty old a full wipe, zero out and install is the best port of call followed by dragging and dropping the files you need from a external.
I think install is about a year old-ish.
My SSD is slower than when I bought it so was thinking of zeroing it fully anyway (I believe that is as close as I can get to reconditioning it without taking it out and putting into a windows and using manufacturers utility's). So I will do that and then drag and drop (same as I did when I got the disk apart from just formatting rather than zeroing it).
It probably makes no odds to be honest, if you did do a clean install you're only going to fill it again with all your old settings you have/had in the TM backup. Perhaps after run some clean up actions, like some listed in this link:
http://www.chriswrites.com/2012/01/17-ways-to-speed-up-mac-os-x-lion/
You can't beat a good clean installation though! I love me a clean install.
Clean install it is.
rp2000
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Sure
Same as Lion
heres a link to the instructions and i know it works.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1161069/make_a_bootable_lion_installer.html
Same as Lion
heres a link to the instructions and i know it works.
http://www.macworld.com/article/1161069/make_a_bootable_lion_installer.html
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Ordered a new USB stick earlier to create install media for this. I did a clean install last time off USB so I'll probably do the same this time. (and it will save on downloading it multiple times as there are 3 Mac's in the house capable of running it).
I never had to make install media for Lion because my iMacs were shipped with it preinstalled so I'd be interested in the instructions on how to do this once Mountain Lion is released. I don't want to have to download it twice to install on the two computers.
Yup, saw that after I posted. I opened the 'reply' window and started typing but got distracted and it was about half an hour before I actually got to make the post!