How to restore macbook to original

how do you restore macbook to original condition

Locate the original discs that came with your MacBook.
Insert the first disk.
Restart the computer, holding down the C key to boot to CDROM.
Reinstall the original operating system and applications from the discs.
Note that this will erase and overwrite information on your computer, making it inaccessible to the average new owner, such as a family member.
It is not a comprehensive 'high security' erasure and would not stop a determined unscrupulous person from possibly recovering personal information that was overwritten. The only way to guarantee that nothing could ever be recovered from your original hard disk would be remove, destroy, and shred the original drive, and replace the drive with a new blank drive, and then install the OS and applications from the original disks.

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