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<blockquote data-quote="cognus" data-source="post: 1404929" data-attributes="member: 251926"><p>Me personally, I would not take that approach. but my prefs are a technician's... I have to cleanup other folks messes and try to make sure the system I give back is running optimally, safely, and with all the goods intact.</p><p>I'd be wary that Time Machine will restore the problem, if you know what I mean.</p><p>typically the user has documents, data [like from quickbooks or itunes or whatever], and media that are "the valuables". I would prefer to back those up and see them intact, uncompressed even, before I wipe the old drive.</p><p></p><p>yes more memory</p><p>and these days, to me the switch to an SSD is well worth the smallish cost, but the concept of operating is different, imho: go with the smallest SSD one can tolerate [my personal is a 70gb] and leave all the less-often-needed junk on the external drive.</p><p>cooler, quieter, lower power, and way faster.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cognus, post: 1404929, member: 251926"] Me personally, I would not take that approach. but my prefs are a technician's... I have to cleanup other folks messes and try to make sure the system I give back is running optimally, safely, and with all the goods intact. I'd be wary that Time Machine will restore the problem, if you know what I mean. typically the user has documents, data [like from quickbooks or itunes or whatever], and media that are "the valuables". I would prefer to back those up and see them intact, uncompressed even, before I wipe the old drive. yes more memory and these days, to me the switch to an SSD is well worth the smallish cost, but the concept of operating is different, imho: go with the smallest SSD one can tolerate [my personal is a 70gb] and leave all the less-often-needed junk on the external drive. cooler, quieter, lower power, and way faster. [/QUOTE]
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