Slow slow MB pro. Clean install SL or Clean install Lion?
Hello there,
I know there are a lot of discussion about Lion, Snow Leopard and the many ways to upgrade from the latter to the former. I have a 2010 MBP, 4GB Ram, 2.53gHZ, 500GB HD (150GB free). I run mostly MS Office Applications, Adobe Lightroom and am a heavy internet user. I have more than 200GB of pictures and documents, mostly related to my work (health care), and have Time Machine backups, updated q 2-3 days.
It has been IMPOSSIBLE to work on the MBP for the past few months. It freezes 10x a day, is very slow in booting up (up to 10 minutes), applications crash all the time. Reading articles, i have tried so many things, but nothing works.
1. I tried repairing the disk and disk permissions
2. I have run Onyx
3. Have reset the PRAM and NVRAM
4. Tried to free more space
5. Deleted redundant applications (like chrome and firefox, games, etc..).
6. Tried to identify on Activity Monitor any culprit, but it looks greek to me .
7. Removed login itens (dropbox, skype, etc...)
After all that, I decided to do a clean install of hte whole system, and then recover my documents and some apps from my Time Machine backup.
My question is:
1. Since I am gonna erase the whole HD, should I just install OS Lion or re-install SL?
2. If I install Lion, can I choose which software and document to recover from my SL Time Machine backup later?
Any comments and help is welcome
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)