“You never have to reinstall OS X!!!11!1!1!!!!1111!1oneone!1″
Well, no. You don’t. But a fresh install of an OS is always a nice thing. For example – I reinstalled Snow Leopard on my MacBook last night, and have almost finished installing everything – I just have to install three things now, Photoshop CS4, Toast Titanium and World of Goo. With all my other apps installed so far, OS X is sitting at a pretty tiny 9.26GB. Once I install those three apps, it should bump up to about 15GB used space, tops.
Before I reinstalled Snow Leopard – and with the exact same apps, data, and so on, on the HDD, OS X was taking up just over 35GB. That’s with 11 months of constant use, and what was originally Leopard installed.
So yes, sure, Snow Leopard was running pretty smoothly before I reinstalled, but now it’s running even better. Actually, the one thing I have noticed is that now it only takes about 25 seconds to reboot, from the time I hit “Reboot” to the time it was at the desktop, with everything loaded – before, it used to take about 60 seconds. 
Next up, reinstalling Windows 7 with the retail version this coming week. 
