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I have had my macbook pro now for a little over a year. I have noticed it is a bit slower than when it first came out of the box and I have tried to keep up with my maintenance. It is by no means crawling but I have to ask the question: How long do you normally go between wipes on your hard drive - and what level of wipe do you normally use?
Before I jumped into macs I was running a dell laptop that needed to be wiped from the root directory back to the factory setting about once a year. I maintained backups through norton and only tried to do a clean-up once as it was not a happy event. I found that if I wiped back to the factory settings and imported my critical information from backup it ran like a new machine. Sadly though at the end I was having to wipe it about once every 3-4 months.
Just looking for a little history from the board's perspective and maybe a little advice since this is my first mac.
Before I jumped into macs I was running a dell laptop that needed to be wiped from the root directory back to the factory setting about once a year. I maintained backups through norton and only tried to do a clean-up once as it was not a happy event. I found that if I wiped back to the factory settings and imported my critical information from backup it ran like a new machine. Sadly though at the end I was having to wipe it about once every 3-4 months.
Just looking for a little history from the board's perspective and maybe a little advice since this is my first mac.