Mac

This is an addendum to my series on on Getting Rid of My MacBook — essential information that's hard to find!

If you're on the receiving end of a transfer of ownership of a Mac, here's what you should do:

This is the final part 4 in my series on Getting Rid of My MacBook — essential information that's hard to find!

After securely erasing the SSD and resetting the Firmware Password you're ready to put the final touch on your Mac: reset it to factory state by loading the operating system:

This is part 2 in my series on Getting Rid of My MacBook — essential information that's hard to find!

There are lots of how-to's out there on the net, and many of them tell you to turn off FileVault before erasing your disk. That is completely wrong! DON'T DO IT!

Follow the outlined procedure:

I've bought about a dozen (DOS and Windows) PCs and one Mac in the past 40 years, and I still have all of them, but now I want to get rid of one of them: the MacBook. It's a very nice machine, a MacBook Pro 2017 with Retina Display, Touch Bar, 16GB RAM and 1TB SSD, but I just can't come to terms with its random key combinations, its lack of Esc/Insert/etc. keys, and its instability when pushing it with MAMP Pro and a Windows 10 virtual machine running under Parallels Desktop in Coherence Mode. Even trying to give away the Mac is a challenge!