I recently got a new hard drive like 2 weeks ago and installed a clean copy of snow leopard in my computer. Now with the Mavericks announcement, I wonder if it is worth it to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mavericks? (I ask this because in my opinion Snow Leopard´s performance is better than Lion or Mountain Lion).
Do you think is worth it?
Is Mavericks faster than Snow Leopard?
Thanks!
MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Isn't it something of a palaver to install and run both systems and might it not mean having to do this on an external HD if the main HD is getting towards being full.
If you have a big enoiugh hard drive, it's not an issue:
Naturally you will only get individual opinions on this one, though there may be a consensus eventually. From my point of view I am sticking with Snow Leopard which I have had since its birth.
And there is a consensus that it is the best OS Apple launched.
One important consideration. Once you download Mavericks you will lose the facility to use PPC applications (also known under the Rosetta platform).
So if you have Apps that you want, have kept or or simply unaware of their make up ... beware.
Why don't you partition your HDD and install mavericks on one partition and use it. Or you may install it on an external HDD. That way you can decide for yourself rather than rely on sources that you are not familiar with.
ciao.
Greetings OGLETHORPE,
Isn't it something of a palaver to install and run both systems and might it not mean having to do this on an external HD if the main HD is getting towards being full.
I've always felt uncomfortable about the principle but I wish I could be convinced otherwise. You seem happy with it but I have read several conflicting views.
seventy one, greetings; To implement my suggestion certainly may require some planning and adjustments as you allude to. However my point is that one can best determine the virtues and vices of any item best by using it rather that listening to the opinions of others. It should not be construed that running two separate OSs would or should be a permanent policy, but rather a method to determine which suits the OPs needs the best.
As I'm sure you know, some applications run only on Snow Leopard. In such instances, there may be features that are resident in subsequent OSs that a user might find attractive thus dual OSs may be the answer. What ever suits a users needs is fine with me. I have no strong feelings one way or the other.
On my primary MBP I run Lion only. (I would have Mt.Lion but one of my wireless ISPs is not compatible with !0.8)
On my secondary MBP I have Snow Leopard as the primary OS with Lion and Mt. Lion in smaller volumes for test purposes. I have not committed to Mavericks yet. I gladly let others blaze the trail. 🙂
Best regards.
Ciao.
And that makes a big difference. 😀 I am only guessing but it doesn't look like Liwuen's machine will have that level of equipment; all the same, the profile suggests it has already been upgraded. Which would make the whole question academic.
As a matter of fact seventy one, my macbook has a 1 TB HD and 8 gigs of ram, but I have a bootcamp partition with windows 7. The problem was that I've just format the computer like 2 weeks ago (well, install everything from scratch in a new HD) and it would be really annoying to erase everything just to try and see how mavericks works.
Now I'm testing it in a virtual machine and, despite the fact that is virtualized, it seems really cool. No lag whatsoever. The only problem I'm facing now is the chinese input (I live in Taiwan) and it seems that since 10.7 the chinese input had a bug that is still in 10.9 😮
But have you tried the Mavericks? Is really nice, I recommend it
Thanks for the update on your position. I couldn't tell from your initial post if you had two machines or one 😀
No; I am not going to Mavericks yet because it will have the same effect on Snow Leopard's facilities as the Lion Family would. I am happy as is. In any event, when I do, I never upgrade until at least two months after the arrival of a major upgrade ... too many updates as it beds down. Prefer to let others do the checking out for me, lazy as it seems.
Regards.
Echoing OGLETHORPE, I run three OSs on my machine (four until I dropped Lion as being useless) w/o any complications. They all share the same data volumes, so keeping things sorted isn't much of a hassle. The only thing that is keeping up with my e-mails. Eudora on SL is my primary and I occassionally update Mail, in case there's some HTML one I want to read in the later OSs. Discipline keeps Safari and my keychains synched up. My iMac's 2TB internal HD has eleven volumes (partitions), six of which are bootable.
Greetings, Baltwo.
That's a very impressive collection ... and no small amount of responsibility either.
Thank goodness my needs are so basic, I can't imagine having to cope with that.
Hence, of course, the value of staying with Snow Leopard. 🙂
Snow Leopard is better and it's faster on my MacBook than Lion,Mountain Lion or Mavericks. Snow Leopard really does everything I need and to me Mavericks is full of useless crap. I also tested that battery life is better on Snow Leopard…No joke.
Snow Leopard is also more beautiful, but the most important thing is that it boots up within seconds.
True, but if someone is using iCloud then Mavericks will be a great update from ML.
I'm not using iCloud (not only iCloud - the others also - like DropBox, G+) and for now I get back from 10.9 to 10.6.8 - just like White-1 sayed: it's faster.
I'm aware that this is an old post, but, am researching if it's worth upgrading from Snow Leopard. It is such a stable OS and lets me do quite enough. I don't need Facebook or Twitter intrusion apps or whatevers if the basic programs are tweaked worse than 10.6.
From what I'm reading here and elsewhere, I best stay where I am and instead upgrade the hard-wear for efficiency and speed on my 2011 MBP.
Ogelthorpe's suggestion to test on a partition is an excellent piece of wisdom. I"m going to try that.....
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My vote is for OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Without a doubt, the best OS X version Apple EVER developed and designed.
This is my everyday running OS X version.
A big thanks goes to the senior OS development group leader, at the time, Bertrand Serlet. I really miss him at Apple.
I have, also, installed OS X Mavericks. Mavericks has some cool features that I like, but there is a lot of the Apple apps that have been simplified to death that have a lot of missing functionality compared to the older Apple app versions (namely iMovie and all of the iWork apps), third party apps I can't afford to ever update that will keep me pretty much forever on OS X Snow Leopard. If there ends up being some sort of major and serious security breach that happens to Snow Leopard, I will just stop connecting to the Internet with my IMac when using Snow Leopard and will have to use Mavericks more and use apps I was able to update/upgrade for free or cheaply and access my email and Internet from OS X Mavericks and/or from my iPad.
Hi Michel, Glad for the encouragement and knowing there are fellow Snow Leopard enthusiasts in the Mac Universe. I've been all over the net looking for opinions on these OS versions. I hope that some of the developers will continue to support SL because I am comfortable with it and CS5 does what I need it to do, it is after all the user and not the program that decides what skills to employ in concept execution. I'm curious, now about Mavericks for all it's touted to be and will also place it on a smaller partition. I'll keep in mind your solution, now, concerning the security vulnerability.
Which one is better? Snow leopard or mavericks?
