[anthonyfl]

2.13 GHz processor
2GB Ram
May 2009 White Macbook (purchased in Sept. '09)
Came with snow leopard


Should it work well? Like be fast, efficient, not crash etc.
(Or should I stick with snow leopard?)

Thanks

[Gofre]

Putting aside the numerous people who have told you it will run slowly anyway, I can't see Lion slowing it down any further. I didn't notice any performance drop when I upgraded. If you do find it too slow you can always restore.

[matt2k8]

Why not wait a couple of weeks for Mountain Lion?

[anthonyfl]

(Original post by Gofre)
Putting aside the numerous people who have told you it will run slowly anyway, I can't see Lion slowing it down any further. I didn't notice any performance drop when I upgraded. If you do find it too slow you can always restore.

This is a different laptop though? Thanks anyway.


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[anthonyfl]

(Original post by matt2k8)
Why not wait a couple of weeks for Mountain Lion?

It's a laptop I'm buying which has lion on it already


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[littleone271]

Presumably a Lion would require a very hardy computer with a really huge keyboard?

Sorry, I couldn't resist it.

[CHY872]

(Original post by anthonyfl)
It's a laptop I'm buying which has lion on it already


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Should be alright. Probably not brilliant, but alright. If you're paying more than £600, you should really think about saving up for a Macbook Air (or even a Macbook Pro) from the education store (£800).

[anthonyfl]

(Original post by littleone271)
Presumably a Lion would require a very hardy computer with a really huge keyboard?

Sorry, I couldn't resist it.

Looool.


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[anthonyfl]

(Original post by CHY872)
Should be alright. Probably not brilliant, but alright. If you're paying more than £600, you should really think about saving up for a Macbook Air (or even a Macbook Pro) from the education store (£800).

I'm paying £269!


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[anthonyfl]

What are the differences between Snow Leopard / Lion / Mountain Lion?


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[PVisitors]

(Original post by anthonyfl)
2.13 GHz processor
2GB Ram
May 2009 White Macbook (purchased in Sept. '09)
Came with snow leopard


Should it work well? Like be fast, efficient, not crash etc.
(Or should I stick with snow leopard?)

Thanks

Stick with Snow Leopard. The minimum Apple recommend for OSX Lion is 4gb Ram. Lion eats up 4gb RAM under casual workload and general multitasking.

(Original post by anthonyfl)
What are the differences between Snow Leopard / Lion / Mountain Lion?


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This is best googling and finding out for yourself because there are too many changes to list. However if you want a rudimentary description:

Snow Leopard = before iOS elements
Lion = Introduced quite a few iOS elements.
Mountain Lion = Further iOS implementation.

Snow Leopard is my favourite OSX ever so far. Although ML DP4 looks very promising. It's what Lion should have been when released 1 year ago. Part of me thinks Lion was rushed to allow Jobs to have one last time standing on that WWDC platform.

[rock_climber86]

stick to snow leopard!!! It's better and faster also some of the new features are lame!

edit: watch youtube vids on it. It'll give u many reasons not to upgrade ...slower start up time, slower at doing normal tasks etc etc...i just dont see the point!


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