So do people agree that 10.7 doesn’t run too slowly on older machines then? Considering this MBP is 2.6 GHz (x2 core).
And yes apps are my next thought... =( On 08/03/2012 11:42, Phil Ward wrote: But just be sure all you apps will run with 10.7! My recent £20 update to Lion meant buying updates for Indesign, Illustrator and Acrobat. Thanks Apple. P -- Phil Ward Skype: aphilw E: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> W: www.philward.biz <http://www.philward.biz> W: http://soundcloud.com/philberish W: www.thegalleons.com <http://www.thegalleons.com> W: http://thegalleons.bandcamp.com/album/the-galleons • Freelance writer and product designer. • Exclusive UK distributor for Veillette Guitars. www.veilletteguitars.com <http://www.veilletteguitars.com>. • Consultant Designer of the Acoustic Energy AE22 nearfield monitor. • Contributor to Sound on Sound magazine. On 8 Mar 2012, at 11:39, Emrah Omuris wrote: > I would move to 10.7 and see the performance improvements. Make sure you make > a clean > install. I'm sure you'll be satisfied with the snappiness of a fresh install. > And give > it a go a few months and if it doesn't work, then you can get a new machine > and it is > more likely it will be around the time when Apple comes up with 10.8 and > updated Macbooks. > On 8 Mar 2012, at 11:36, Brookes wrote: > >> hello people, >> >> I am starting to feel like the time has come. My MBP (2008 model) is >> starting to annoy me. >> >> It is intermittently slow/laggy and apps lock up. This occurs regardless of >> whether its >> using 50% or 95% of it's two cores. It already has the max 4GB RAM inserted. >> >> So Im wondering what is the best course of action, re-install 10.5, or move >> to 10.6/10.7? >> >> Unless prices have dropped Im not interested in forking out for a SSD. >> >> Cheers, >> Jon. >> >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac >> User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac > User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
