Should I Upgrade to Mountain Lion?

[Alameda]

My wife has a MacBook Pro with a 2.26 GHz Core2Duo. I upgraded it with an SSD and 8 GB of RAM. Performance is nice. It runs Snow Leopard and she is happy with it.

Will performance decrease if I upgrade this computer to Mountain Lion? Should I upgrade to ML?

Thanks!!!

 

[Spink10]

Does she want any of the features of Lion/ML? If yes - make a backup in case she wants to go back to SL.

 

[Alameda]

Does she want any of the features of Lion/ML?

No, she hasn't asked me to upgrade it. She's happy with it. She almost noticed that the SSD is faster.

 

[Spink10]

No, she hasn't asked me to upgrade it. She's happy with it. She almost noticed that the SSD is faster.

You can upgrade - it will not feel anymore snappier.

 

[slu]

No. Only upgrade for functionality you can't get with your current version.

 

[mankar4]

I held out on SL for a long time, but I love ML now. It has a lot of "intangibles" that SL doesn't have, I love notification center, and there's nothing I could do on SL that I can't do on ML, now that TotalSpaces exists. For such a low price, I think its a no brainer. While I use my mbpr now, I upgraded my 2007 C2D to ML and its runs just as well, if not smoother, than it did on SL, and runs great as my media server.