Selling my MAC, should I delete my user profile or completely reset?

Hello all,
selling my MacBook Pro to my friend. What's the best thing to do to "clean" my MacBook for him? Delete my user or "restore" mac?
I have "lion" installed so Im pretty sure it wont restore to that, probably the old operating system it had before I installed Lion.
Thoughts?
Michael

steve359 wrote:
As has been explained to me, you cannot sell a pre-Lion-originally system with your-purchased Lion on it. You need to retore to the original OS disks and let the new user buy the upgrades. SL I think is transferrable as an OS-upgrade if the disks travel with it, but not Lion.
Thanks. I was kind of thinking it might be like that but wasn't sure since it really represents a reversal in how things used to operate. Of course somebody stands to a big advantage since now if, say a Mac makes its way through 3 owners, all 3 have to buy the Lion upgrade. Of course you also now cannot sell an unwanted OS anymore. And if Apple continues its pattern of no longer selling anything but the last 2 OS versions, all those Macs out there will useless a couple of years down the road since if somebody offered me Michael Drabousky1's Mac 3 years from now and I can no longer get Lion for it, I won't buy it. Goodie, goodie (for somebody), all those old Macs will soon be unusable and everybody will have to buy more new hardware!

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