I've got a Early 2008 MacBook. Since I installed Lion two years ago, it started to struggle a little bit in performance. My question is: we are in 2013, is it recommended to downgrade to Snow Leopard, to get better performance? Or to stay with Lion for better compatibility with the new apps?
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
How much RAM do you have installed - it can make quite a difference? Anything less than 4gb and Lion won't be at its best performance-wise.
Reverting back to Snow Leopard is do-able, but it would involve erasing the disk, re-installing the OS and restoring all your data from backup.
I have 4GB of RAM, 120GB original HDD...
Depending on what you do, 4 GB is considered a realistic minimum - if you do graphics work, or edit/render video, then (much) more would be better. Snow leopard was/is a very stable system - unless you need/want to new things in Lion (such as iCloud, etc), then you could just revert. It is a bit of work though having to erase the drive, etc.
Stick with Lion.
Reply:
You don't have to.
Stay with Lion or upgrade to Mountain Lion 10.8.2 or 10.8.3.
P.S. :There now is an operating system called Mountain Lion.
Upgrade if want to.....
-James Willams
P.S. :There now is an operating system called Mountain Lion.
Upgrade if want to.....
If the OP's Macbook is early 2008 as stated, it will not support Mountain Lion.
Back to Snow Leopard in 2013
