Should I upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mavericks? I have an iMac and use Adobe Creative Cloud daily.
I am a graphic designer and use all of the adobe suite at work. I recently purchased a refurbished iMac that came with Snow Leopard. I am wondering if it would be a good idea to upgrade to Mavericks.
I run on 4GB of RAM and have a 640GB hard drive.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
first and foremost, check application compatibility. Any PPC programs that run on 10.6.8 and prior, will not run on 10.7+. http://roaringapps.com/apps
Here are Apple's specifications. If you meet them, subject to shldr2thewheel's suggestion, you can upgrade.
But do remember, Mavericks is an alien system to what you currently use. It is not just about PPC, it has rewritten the basics. For an older machine, Snow Leopard is an excellent OS.
Your best option is to partition your hard drive or add an external hard drive to your Mac and install Mavericks there and then "dual-boot" into either Snow Leopard or Mavericks as needed.
Dual Boot = System Preferences -> Startup Disk.
This method will keep your Snow Leopard environment intact and allow you to experiment with Mavericks without the damage caused by installing Mavericks over Snow Leopard.
http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6271 addresses more of what was discussed.
Should I upgrade from Snow Leopard to Mavericks?
