Ditto with Synchro3 on Mountain Lion OS X 10.8 for a cMacPro 3,1. I personally use both Mountain Lion and OS X 10.10 Yosemite on my own cMacPro 3,1.
Big vote here for 10.10 Yosemite -- great fresh interface, all the up-to-date Apple apps to link up with iPhone, and super speedy on Samsung 850 Pro SSD in an OWC Accelsior S using the PCIe 16 lane bandwidth.
In my case drivers for both my iPF 9100 and my pro 9000 are really bad post 10.6 and almost unusable post 10.8Sorry if this sounds ignorant but what's the downside of running the newest OS?
Snow Leopard contains Rosetta, a translation software that allows you to use IBM PowerPC applications on an Intel based Mac. Older software may become inoperable if you upgrade beyond 10.6 Snow Leopard.Sorry if this sounds ignorant but what's the downside of running the newest OS?
Snow Leopard contains Rosetta, a translation software that allows you to use IBM PowerPC applications on an Intel based Mac. Older software may become inoperable if you upgrade beyond 10.6 Snow Leopard.
On the upside if you want better OpenGL drivers for your graphics and a faster user experience with the latest applications available, upgrading to El Capitan is the better bet.
Running WoW on the same hardware El Capitan does a good 15 fps faster in pretty much all situations. Just by moving from OpenGL 2.4 to 4.1
Well for me it is not about the graphics, rather the responsiveness of the OS with my machine and speed in applications such as Pro Tools and Logic Pro.
Looks like Pro Tools is better on older OS X builds for now: http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/en_US/Compatibility/Pro-Tools-12-System-Requirements