I'm upgrading to a new Mac Book Pro, my 'old' goes to a friend!

Hi all, I'm going to upgrade to a new Slimline Mac Book Pro, my 3 year old outgoing Mac Book Pro goes to a good friend of mine, I tried for years to make him give up Windows, finally, he took the bait.

So I ask, how is it best to prepare my old MBP before transfer of ownership.?

Is it perhaps as simple as simply format the hard drive and leaving who?. If so, how it would be able to get a copy of ElCapitan? Then would he be easy to get a free copy of Pages, Numbers and Keynote?  or maybe they are included in ElCapitan? I remember that I had to pay for them, 3 or 4 years ago.

Questions, and is there a page I can point him that will help his PASSAGE from Windows to Apple to be as painless as possible, otherwise that I lost a very good friend!

Later: -.

The links below all refer them to a version PREVIOUS to Mac OS X, so I don't think they're quite accurate?

KurtLang August 2014 post on the restoration of new computers that do not come with an optical disc -https://discussions.apple.com/message/26479617#26479617

Khati January 2016 post on the use of network recovery - https://discussions.apple.com/message/29713317#29713317

Post of February 2016 LINC Davis about the state machine to restore new -https://discussions.apple.com/message/29726244#29726244

On Windows Migration Assistant - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4796 - learn more about how to use Windows Migration Wizard to migrate your files to a Windows PC on a Mac.  Download link - http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1557

I asked this question in the wrong section, have now copied in the right place, in the hope, I can get the answer to what I ask with Elcapitan

Tim

What to do before you sell or give away your Mac - Apple Support

Tags: Mac OS & System Software

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