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I am wondering is it worth upgrading from 10.6.8 to 10.7.5 my mac mini 1.1 that I upgrade with 2gb ram and cpu with c2d 2,33Ghz ? Will I feel any difference on 10.7.5 ?
You can't upgrade to Lion. The MacMini 1.1 is limited to Snow Leopard.
The MacMini 2.1 is upgradable to Lion.
Lanny the OP said he has a 2006 with a c2d 2,33Ghz. That means he upgraded the processor to a core 2 duo and that processor when installed in a 2006 Mini supports as high as Lion.
For OP I would not expect any real performance increase or decrease with Lion. There are some aps that require Lion or later. However, some app will not work with Lion,. See:
I heard and read on some comments and reviews that Lion has more bugs and more crashed than Snow leopard is that true ?
Is that true that Lion have more issues than snow leopard ?
And do snow leopard and lion both support TRIM for ssd ?
EDIT:
I decided to stay on 10.6.8 as I read too many complains on 10.7.5 and how people rollback to 10.6.8 after numer and number of problems.
As Illaass says you lose Roesetta and hence the ability to run old PowerPC software but you would gain FileVault2 compatibility means you could both encrypt the entire boot drive and you could also either encrypt external drives or access already encrypted drives. (Snow Leopard only supports FileVault1.)
I don't regard Lion as being any less reliable than Snow Leopard. A possible exception would be if you were using Apple's server software.
You will start to find websites will complain about your using old no longer supported web-browsers under Snow Leopard. This is because all three of Safari, Firefox and Chrome are no longer being updated for Snow Leopard. Some websites will not just complain but will either fail to draw properly or even block you completely.
Regarding browsers, Lion and Mountain Lion are in the same situation as Snow Leopard.
According to https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/46.0/system-requirements/ it turns out that Firefox actually still supports even Snow Leopard.
Latest firefox is still supported on Snow Leopard, I think devs from Firefox said that they will discontinued firefox support for 10.6,10.7 and 10.8 OS at the end of this year.
I still think Snow Leopard is better choice than Lion.
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