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Help me kill and resurrect my '08 13"?
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1523764"><p>If I might make a suggestion: that MacBook is pretty old, RAM limited, has a terrible video chipset and so forth. Putting Lion on it was, IMHO, a mistake.</p><p></p><p>I would suggest ordering a copy of Snow Leopard from Apple ($20) and installing that. As for your own stuff, I'd suggest using Snow Leopard's Migration Assistant (which will run automatically when you first boot from it after its installed on the wiped HD) and use that to restore your stuff and apps and so forth from your backup (either Time Machine or a cloned copy as mentioned by Harry above).</p><p></p><p>Trying to get a copy of Lion (very difficult now), create a USB bootable version of it, etc is probably going to put your right back where you are. For that machine, Snow Leopard is the best OS option IMHO. PS. If you haven't done so already, I'd also suggest maxing out the RAM on that machine, which I think will be 3.3GB (2x2B, it can't see the full 4GB) or just 3GB (1x1GB module, 1x2GB module).</p><p></p><p>And start saving for your next machine ... that one isn't going to hang on in terms of usefulness too much longer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1523764"] If I might make a suggestion: that MacBook is pretty old, RAM limited, has a terrible video chipset and so forth. Putting Lion on it was, IMHO, a mistake. I would suggest ordering a copy of Snow Leopard from Apple ($20) and installing that. As for your own stuff, I'd suggest using Snow Leopard's Migration Assistant (which will run automatically when you first boot from it after its installed on the wiped HD) and use that to restore your stuff and apps and so forth from your backup (either Time Machine or a cloned copy as mentioned by Harry above). Trying to get a copy of Lion (very difficult now), create a USB bootable version of it, etc is probably going to put your right back where you are. For that machine, Snow Leopard is the best OS option IMHO. PS. If you haven't done so already, I'd also suggest maxing out the RAM on that machine, which I think will be 3.3GB (2x2B, it can't see the full 4GB) or just 3GB (1x1GB module, 1x2GB module). And start saving for your next machine ... that one isn't going to hang on in terms of usefulness too much longer. [/QUOTE]
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