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My experience with Macbook pro
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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1400153"><p>You don't have to do a lot of maintenance, really, but you do need to do SOME. Oneironaut's suggestions are good ones, but what is much more important is that you get into the habit of backing up your hard drive (it sounds like you're not doing this). If you're not already using Time Machine, you should drop everything else, go out and buy an external hard drive that is at least 50 percent more capacity that the boot drive you have now.</p><p></p><p>Once you power it up and plug it in your USB or FW port, you'll be asked if you want to make it a Time Machine drive. You do.</p><p></p><p>That first backup will take a while, so maybe run some errands while that's going on. After that it will silently back up whatever's changed every hour.</p><p></p><p>Time Machine plus the occasional (by this I mean exactly that, occasional) use of something like OnyX (do NOT fall for the MacKeeper ads!!) should get your Mac back to humming along. Also, be sure you're not running low on HD space, as that can play a big role in making a Mac feel slow.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1400153"] You don't have to do a lot of maintenance, really, but you do need to do SOME. Oneironaut's suggestions are good ones, but what is much more important is that you get into the habit of backing up your hard drive (it sounds like you're not doing this). If you're not already using Time Machine, you should drop everything else, go out and buy an external hard drive that is at least 50 percent more capacity that the boot drive you have now. Once you power it up and plug it in your USB or FW port, you'll be asked if you want to make it a Time Machine drive. You do. That first backup will take a while, so maybe run some errands while that's going on. After that it will silently back up whatever's changed every hour. Time Machine plus the occasional (by this I mean exactly that, occasional) use of something like OnyX (do NOT fall for the MacKeeper ads!!) should get your Mac back to humming along. Also, be sure you're not running low on HD space, as that can play a big role in making a Mac feel slow. [/QUOTE]
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