Jan 21, 2008
Mac Pro rebuild
My Mac Pro had suffered from bloat even before I upgraded to Leopard. I performed the simple upgrade, rather than “Archive and Install” or “Erase and Install”. I’ve been in this business enough years to know better! Anyway, after deciding against the expensive option of buying the Apple RAID card and 2 or 4 300GB SAS drives ($600 each!), I simply blatted the boot drive and performed a clean install of Leopard.
Of course, it takes an age to reinstall all your applications and utilities and to get it just the way you want it. I’m mostly back to where I want to be and much happier. Firstly, the system is far more stable and secondly, it’s so much snappier.
Here’s hoping the extra 8GB memory arrives today!
