OS and upgrades : Help

[lschultz777]

I have 2 questions about my Macbook Pro.

1. I have Mac OS X 10.5.8. My internet is very slow and I did all the disk/ maintenence stuff. I want to try Firefox and see if that makes a difference. But it needs 10.6 Mac OS. There are several different upgrades 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 Which one would you recommend?

2. The second thing, my laptop is getting old. 6-8 yrs old. My processor is 2.2 and memory is 2 gb. Should I look into increasing my memory or don't bother and just get another laptop?

Lisa

 

[Samuelsan2001]

I have 2 questions about my Macbook Pro.

1. I have Mac OS X 10.5.8. My internet is very slow and I did all the disk/ maintenence stuff. I want to try Firefox and see if that makes a difference. But it needs 10.6 Mac OS. There are several different upgrades 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 Which one would you recommend?

2. The second thing, my laptop is getting old. 6-8 yrs old. My processor is 2.2 and memory is 2 gb. Should I look into increasing my memory or don't bother and just get another laptop?

Lisa

If you have the mac app store then I think lion 10.7 is the newest your mac will accept. It's an old laptop that is low specced and is just struggling with all the stuff on todays internet I don't think firefox will help.
An SSD upgrade and double the RAM (if that model will accept it) will help but with a laptop that age you could be throwing money into something that will pack up anyway.
To be honest I would just put the money towards a new mac maybe a macbook air, you have had damn good service out of this one and it's probably time it was put out to pasture.

 

[yjchua95]

I have 2 questions about my Macbook Pro.

1. I have Mac OS X 10.5.8. My internet is very slow and I did all the disk/ maintenence stuff. I want to try Firefox and see if that makes a difference. But it needs 10.6 Mac OS. There are several different upgrades 10.6, 10.7, 10.8 Which one would you recommend?

2. The second thing, my laptop is getting old. 6-8 yrs old. My processor is 2.2 and memory is 2 gb. Should I look into increasing my memory or don't bother and just get another laptop?

Lisa

Just get a brand new MBP. Your MacBook's pretty ancient already.

 

[snaky69]

If you have the mac app store then I think lion 10.7 is the newest your mac will accept. It's an old laptop that is low specced and is just struggling with all the stuff on todays internet I don't think firefox will help.
An SSD upgrade and double the RAM (if that model will accept it) will help but with a laptop that age you could be throwing money into something that will pack up anyway.
To be honest I would just put the money towards a new mac maybe a macbook air, you have had damn good service out of this one and it's probably time it was put out to pasture.

The app store can only be reached with OS X 10.6 or more, so the OP cannot go out and buy Lion on it.

OP: If your machine is on Leopard (10.5), then it is at least a 2008 model, perhaps even older. An OS or browser update will do nothing for performance, by today's standard, your computer is simply ancient.

You could perhaps chuck a bit more RAM in there to help it out, but that's the extent of it. A SSD will help some, but not much since it likely only has SATA I.