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wireddoc

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Apr 11, 2009
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I have an old faithful first gen MBA (1.6/80GB) running Leopard 10.5.8 as my bedside Mac. Unfortunately I am spending more time at the beach lately and not enjoying the scenery, just lots of spinning beach balls. :) Seems the latest anti-malware stuff has really slowed it down.

What OSX is fastest for light Word/Excel and Firefox use?

- Leopard - currently installed, may just rebuild to speed up
- Snow Leopard - had this on before. Didn't seem much better
- Lion - no features I need

Thanks!
 

yegon

macrumors 68040
Oct 20, 2007
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Snow Leopard I imagine. What an OS that was, slapped it on my old 07 2.16ghz white macbook that I gave to my parents, runs like a charm.
 
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