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Apple's OS X image flawed on new machines?
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Senior User
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: CT
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Is it just me or is the image of OS X that ships on Apples machines just designed to break and get slow really fast? Out of all the machines I have set up for people the ones that complain about slow downs beach balls unexpected quits are people who have just been using the machine as Apple sent it.
Both my machine, which I installed a fresh copy on when I got it and a friends that I did the same have been working perfectly. Also a friend of mines 12" PowerBooks HD died, when he got it back (with a clean HD and Apples image) it was just really slow; he thought the drive was going again because it was acting the same why before it died. So I reinstalled from the panther disks the machines been fine ever since.
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Join Date: Oct 1999
Location: San Jose, Ca
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At one point in my career I got to see a lot of machines as they came directly from Apple, and I did notice that every once in a while there was a batch that were just bad images, and a simple re-install took care of them. But on the whole, most of the images were just fine.
Personally, I re-install every machine I get, but that is often because I want to put in my own build.
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Join Date: Sep 2004
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Originally posted by Chris Grande:
the ones that complain about slow downs beach balls unexpected quits are people who have just been using the machine as Apple sent it.
I tend to agree with lorky, from the perspective of having seen brand new hard drives, fresh out of the box, with bad sectors. I'd zero the drives and then reinstall.
However, if performance degrades over time, there can be a variety of causes. In particular, if these folks are using laptops that are shutdown or alseep overnight and not manually running the CRON scripts, they're chewing up hard drive space with log files. See my Running Mac OS X Maintenance Scripts FAQ.
See also my Tuning Mac OS X Performance FAQ for a variety of troubleshooting and optimizing tips regarding Mac OS X performance.
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Join Date: Nov 2002
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In the past few weeks, I have had to work on every kind of Mac currently shipping, doing software installs/etc. right out-of-the-box.
The only issue I have seen repeatedly is that the OS X image on PowerBooks for some reason gets very finicky if you apply too many updates in the initial update cycle. Tip for those who have just bought a PowerBook: apply the OS X 10.3.7 combined updater, followed by everything else.
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