Early 2011 MBP handeling OSX Mountain Lion?

[nicknicknickh]

So I have a early 2011 MBP and downloaded Lion which didn't seem to slow it down. Well what about Mountain Lion? Will it be too much for my computer to handle/make is significantly slower?

I do have 8GB of ram if that makes any difference, thanks guys!

 

[maflynn]

My 2010 C2D MBP handled ML without any problems and a 2011, Sandy Bridge MBP will certainly handle Mountain Lion.

 

[2ndchancephones]

So I have a early 2011 MBP and downloaded Lion which didn't seem to slow it down. Well what about Mountain Lion? Will it be too much for my computer to handle/make is significantly slower?

I do have 8GB of ram if that makes any difference, thanks guys!

I have the same MBP and ML is running great on it except the trackpad has crashed once a day requiring a shutdown.

 

[RKO]

I have the early 2011 MBP with 8gb RAM and SSD. It scoots along very well under ML. A huge improvement over Lion and I am impressed.

 

[kevink2]

I would guess that RAM size may matter. Historically new OS's expect more RAM than previous OSs.

There have been OS upgrades that targeted memory usage, like back in the 90's when some OS's tried to make themselves usable in 4MB of RAM, but applications were expecting more RAM too.

 

[appletechpro]

I have an early 2011 2.0 i7 MBP, and Mountain Lion has resulted in a much more responsive UI for me.

In particular, Launchpad and Expose(Mission Control?) no longer lag for me.

 

[nicknicknickh]

Great! Thanks for the replies guys!

Any idea on how long it takes to download+install?

 

[yusukeaoki]

On my early 2011 MBP, it actually runs a lot smoother than Lion.

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Great! Thanks for the replies guys!

Any idea on how long it takes to download+install?

Depends on your internet connection but I say about 1 hour average.
Installing would also depend on your drive.
I have a SSD so mine was around 10~15min.

 

[gentlefury]

So I have a early 2011 MBP and downloaded Lion which didn't seem to slow it down. Well what about Mountain Lion? Will it be too much for my computer to handle/make is significantly slower?

I do have 8GB of ram if that makes any difference, thanks guys!

I have a 2011 MBA with 4GB ram and it made it significantly faster!