How do wipe and reset your Macbook Pro Retina to Factory.

It does not come with a disk so I am curious how this would work.
-Rick

flashmurphy wrote:
The erase only took about 10 seconds. Is that normal?
Yes, as it can't be Secure Erased like hard drives can, thus the storage is simply given instructions that all files are now able to be overwritten which is extremely fast, even on hard drives.
You can't secure erase solid state drives as that would wear them out prematurely, so what's on there can be recovered unless the entire drive is filled with new data. You can use Filevault, however it's basically worthless as the password has to be given for repair or easily changed.
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I'm in the same boat. I have an older 13" black MacBook and bought a new 13" MacBook Pro. Your outline isnt' what I experience, yet it's similar to the Apple Article at
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1820
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