Lion - Worth the upgrade?

[px3l]

I am currently running Snow Leopard (10.6.8) on my 2007 MacBook specs:

Intel core 2 duo 2GHz
1GB 667MHz SDRAM

is it worth me upgrading to Lion? will it slow my system down at all?


Thank you

px3l

 

[Boo The Hamster]

Apple are (I believe) quoting a minimum of 4Gb ram to run Lion. I think in truth it's more like 3Gb, but even so...

I ran it on a 2008 Macbook with Intel Core Duo 2.4Ghz & 4Gb ram, and after a day or two, once the indexing had settled, it ran at a reasonable speed.
Boot up and shutdown times were significantly longer though.

However, I really didn't like the OS (because of the features rather than the performance), and so I've gone back to Snow Leopard.

 

[leekohler]

Apple are (I believe) quoting a minimum of 4Gb ram to run Lion. I think in truth it's more like 3Gb, but even so...

I ran it on a 2008 Macbook with Intel Core Duo 2.4Ghz & 4Gb ram, and after a day or two, once the indexing had settled, it ran at a reasonable speed.
Boot up and shutdown times were significantly longer though.

However, I really didn't like the OS (because of the features rather than the performance), and so I've gone back to Snow Leopard.

I run Lion on my 2.4 black MB with 2 gigs of RAM, and it's perfectly fine. A hell of a lot faster and smoother than snow leopard. I wouldn't go back to SL if you paid me. I never liked the leopards at all due to the clunky performance. How did it take a "day or so" for the indexing to stop? Mine was done in a few minutes.

 

[DJLC]

Definitely upgrade your RAM first. Lion is a complete hog on my MacBook - 2GHz Core 2 Duo, 2GB RAM. I'm waiting for a 4 gig upgrade kit — hopefully that helps alleviate my issue.

 

[Boo The Hamster]

How did it take a "day or so" for the indexing to stop? Mine was done in a few minutes.

I couldn't tell you exactly how long the indexing took. Also, I didn't leave the Mac switched on - it was on and off as I was using it, so the machine didn't get a clear run at indexing.

All I could say is that straight after the install, it was noticably sluggish, whereas after a couple of days, things had speeded up.

 

[Rambaud]

I "upgraded" to Lion a week ago. Performance seems slower (MBP with 8GB of RAM).

I could go back to Snow Leopard as I cloned the hard drive before installing Lion.

If I were you, I would increase your RAM and wait for the next incarnation of Lion.

 

[dcorban]

I firmly believe that if you have a MacBook prior to the late 2008 model with multitouch trackpad, no, there is little reason to upgrade to Lion. Stick with Snow Leopard.