Do I have enough to effectively run Lion

[effectivepull]

I want to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion but I'm scared to death of my computer slowing down.

This is what I have: iMac 27", Inte Core i5, 2.66 GHz, 16GB of RAM

Do I have enough? Will my system slow down running Lion?

I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks so much!

 

[GGJstudios]

I want to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion but I'm scared to death of my computer slowing down.

This is what I have: iMac 27", Inte Core i5, 2.66 GHz, 16GB of RAM

Do I have enough? Will my system slow down running Lion?

I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks so much!

Your iMac will easily run Lion.

Apple - OS X Lion - Technical specifications

General requirements

• Mac computer with an Intel Core 2 Duo, Core i3, Core i5, Core i7, or Xeon processor
• 2GB of memory
• OS X v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
• 7GB of available space

 

[QuarterSwede]

I'm running Lion smoothly on a 2.16 C2D with 3GB. You have plenty of power and RAM.

 

[effectivepull]

I'm running Liom smoothly on a 2.16 C2D with 3GB. You have plenty of power and RAM.

I'll give it a go. Thanks, guys.

 

[BrianBaughn]

One Caveat: Older applications that run via Rosetta in Snow Leopard will not run at all in Lion.

 

[AcesHigh87]

Assuming you don't need any PPC apps you will be more than fine. My macbook (Early 2008, C2D, 2GB RAM) only slowed down slightly with Lion; you have 8x the amount of power so you shouldn't see any issues at all.

 

[holmesf]

I want to upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion but I'm scared to death of my computer slowing down.

This is what I have: iMac 27", Inte Core i5, 2.66 GHz, 16GB of RAM

Do I have enough? Will my system slow down running Lion?

I'd appreciate any feedback. Thanks so much!

Lion doesn't run any slower than Snow Leopard. You may find some cases where Snow Leopard performs better and some where Lion does.

 

[effectivepull]

Lion doesn't run any slower than Snow Leopard. You may find some cases where Snow Leopard performs better and some where Lion does.

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