Ok, thanks all, and point taken (in fact did that with my MBPro and yes, it's a new machine!)
But, dare I say this is for primary school children who are increasingly asked to do simple things at home online. Speed isn't essential. But Yosemite is rather slow on it. Perhaps an El Cap update won't make it worse at least? Also, is there a way of doing some sort of 'factory restore' only, there's lots of apps on the iMac slowing it down, as it was a corporate machine so I rather suspect a fair few background processes and apps trying to sync to their network etc etc. Lots of little 'utilities' I don't recognise anyway! Thanks Adam On Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 7:18:44 PM UTC, mac98aop wrote: > > Hi all > > We've been donated an older iMac, but it's rather slow with Yosemite and > all the previous owners stuff on there. > > I rather hoped that a full wipe and fresh install of El Cap would help? > > Also, I realise that'll mean I lose Pages etc as they came pre installed > and my kind donator has long since lost all disks. Is there anyway I can > take those off and reinstall? > > If not, Libre Office it is but the children know Pages well so.... > > Thanks folks > > Adam > > > > Sent on the move. > Apologies for any typos and brevity. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
