Snow leopard upgrade Q

[cdownton]

Hi

Hopefully this hasn't already been covered to death.

I have a fairly old imac (it's about three years old) and although I've upgraded the ram, it's feeling a bit sluggish now. Do you think I would experience any performance benefit from upgrading to snow leopard? It still seems like a great machine so can't really justify upgrading to the new imacs.

Thanks for the advice

C

 

[mreg376]

Hi

Hopefully this hasn't already been covered to death.

I have a fairly old imac (it's about three years old) and although I've upgraded the ram, it's feeling a bit sluggish now. Do you think I would experience any performance benefit from upgrading to snow leopard? It still seems like a great machine so can't really justify upgrading to the new imacs.

Thanks for the advice

C

It's an Intel model?

 

[cdownton]

It's an Intel model?

Yeah, it's a 2GHz Intel Core Duo with 2gig ram.

 

[mreg376]

Yeah, it's a 2GHz Intel Core Duo with 2gig ram.

Then you should see benefits from upgrading to Snow Leopard. $25 from Amazon. Hard not to. And while you're at it, max out the ram.

 

[cdownton]

Then you should see benefits from upgrading to Snow Leopard. $25 from Amazon. Hard not to. And while you're at it, max out the ram.

Thanks for the advice. Gonna give it a go.

Is it worth me wiping the hard drive and doing a fresh install?

 

[SpaceMagic]

Thanks for the advice. Gonna give it a go.

Is it worth me wiping the hard drive and doing a fresh install?

Definitely. Loads may disagree with me but now having done 6 Snow Leopard installs, the 3 that got a clean install have been so much more reliable.

 

[mreg376]

Definitely. Loads may disagree with me but now having done 6 Snow Leopard installs, the 3 that got a clean install have been so much more reliable.

I haven't really heard of reliability problems with SL upgrade installs that were the result of the upgrade itself. In fact I know of several instances where some Leopard issues went away with the SL upgrade.

 

[mreg376]

Thanks for the advice. Gonna give it a go.

Is it worth me wiping the hard drive and doing a fresh install?

If you have Tiger you don't have a choice.

 

[belvdr]

Definitely. Loads may disagree with me but now having done 6 Snow Leopard installs, the 3 that got a clean install have been so much more reliable.

After reading post after post, it seems the upgrades were least reliable on older machines. I have a 13" 2.26 MBP and the upgrade went fine.

Whether the reliability is due to application installation/de-installation or not, who knows.

 

[pdjudd]

If you have Tiger you don't have a choice.

As far as I am aware, re-formatting is not a requirement to go from Tiger to SL - its the same upgrade process.