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Jensv

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Jul 28, 2017
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Dear all



I was hoping you can help me understand a process when updating a macbook pro better.



I have a macbook pro from 2010. I have been so happy to won it, but since I did an update it has been painfully slow – in reality unusable.



Reading about this on the net I decided to spend some money on an upgrade.



I have bought a new SSD from Samsung so that I can replace my old disk.



When I got my computer the OS was preinstalled so I never got a disk.



I can understand there are basically two ways to approach the update with regard to the OS that seems viable for me.



I could install the new disk and then boot from a external disk where I have an timemachine copy.



Or I can make a new install of the OS with a USB key and boot from that? If I do a new install perhaps it will be better as a ‘fresh computer’ will be faster?
 
New Install is better

But I would just use Carbon Copy cloner to copy your current disk to a new disk in an external enclosure
 
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