HT201065 What do i do if i'm running Yosemite and want to sell my mac?

Hi guys, i'm running Yosemite. I'm selling my macbook pro and want to know how what to do to get my mac ready to sell.
There does not seem to be instructions for Yosemite on the apple post: What to do before selling or giving away your Mac - Apple Support

No. The basic instructions are the same; if desired, you can append the last three characters of its serial number to http://www.everymac.com/ultimate-mac-lookup/?search_keywords= and load the page. Doing this will reveal the computer's original OS and a lot of other information about it.
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    There is no way around the activation lock. You apparently decided to use the phone with someone else's ID set up for an iCloud (and find my iPhone) account before updating. Since Find My iPhone was active, updating to iOS 7 has automatically turned on the activation lock. If you do not have the Apple ID and password that were previously used, then the phone is now useless. You can't activate it without that informaion.
    Talk to whoever you bought the phone from if you can. If you can't, buy a new phone.

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