Which one is better? Snow leopard or mavericks?

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.

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.

Note: If you don't already have a copy of Mavericks, it's no longer available. Also, Adobe CS5 apps run in Yosemite. As time goes by, support for apps in Snow Leopard will decrease, i.e, Flash, Java, Apple's own iTunes, iWorks, Aperture, iPhoto, Safari, etc.