Snow Leopard vs Mountain Lion

[Badagri]

Originally Posted by Krazy Bill

Dude, I have no idea what you're talking about much less why you replied to me about it.

He asked because I said about 32GB. Since Adobe lets the users set whatever memory usage you have or need.

[redfox435cat]

I kind of like yet hate mountain lion. I thinks its quirky to try to make a desktop mimic their portables but the integration is nice. The problem is the functionality and comparability associated with ML makes it apples version of vista, yes it is that bad. I upgraded out of necessity, my printer quit working and it was an OS problem. Now I have to deal with ML complete lack of HDMI functionality which Apple doesn't acknowledge is a problem since I assume it doesn't help their bottom line in their mind. I for one will alway remember that and will revert to building my own PC as I always had next time around.

[Negritude]

Originally Posted by cave man

do you have the apple part number for sls?

The part number for Snow Leopard Server is MC190Z/A.

[benwiggy]

Originally Posted by Huntn

Update: A quick Google search revealed: this MacLife Article and using 'purge' command in the Terminal. Extremely easy and it changed my Free memory from 47MB to 1.16GB. This is going to have to become a routine. Too bad there is no way to tell the system you always want tied up memory purged?

Originally Posted by Huntn

I've run into the spinning beach ball with 40MB of free memory. Now that I am regularly watching the Activity Monitor and occasionally using the purge command, I'll see if I do better avoiding those long hangs.

Originally Posted by WSR

I've gotten SmartMemoryCleaner on SL through the appstore. It allows me to quickly keep track of inactive memory in the menubar and also purge inactive memory.

You don't need to purge InActive Memory. Inactive Memory is not a Bad Thing™. It is there for a reason to improve performance.

If you have spinning wheels, it's probably some other issue. You don't need to purge inactive Memory all the time.

[MichaelLAX]

Originally Posted by Negritude

The part number for Snow Leopard Server is MC190Z/A.

I have it as MC588Z/A on my invoice.

[clydecessna]

I took my MBP 3,1 2.2ghz back from ML to Snow Leopard because ML was excruciatingly slow, and I have a SSD in the MBP. *Everything* was slow on ML. Maybe my box is too old, but I don't like the iOS elements incorporated into ML, either. Mac is Mac, iOS is iOS.

I'm buying a Mac Pro (used) this summer, and it will run SL on a SSD and be as zippy as can be.

[lucasfer899]

Originally Posted by clydecessna

I took my MBP 3,1 2.2ghz back from ML to Snow Leopard because ML was excruciatingly slow, and I have a SSD in the MBP. *Everything* was slow on ML. Maybe my box is too old, but I don't like the iOS elements incorporated into ML, either. Mac is Mac, iOS is iOS.

I'm buying a Mac Pro (used) this summer, and it will run SL on a SSD and be as zippy as can be.

Me too!
SL any day, sticking with it as long as I can. Especially with an imminent Mac Pro purchase, will be mighty zippy with an SSD, some more RAM, and a nice ATi 5870 :3