To upgrade or not to upgrade. 10.4.11 to SL?

[2Sunny]

I'm certain if I search I will find plenty of info, but I'm an old man and my time is of great value so if you have a kind heart and a wealth of knowledge would you share a list of pro's and con's for upgrading an iMac from Tiger to Snow Leopard?

My computer:

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.16 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache (per processor): 4 MB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 667 MHz
Boot ROM Version: IM51.0090.B09
SMC Version: 1.9f4




Thanks!



JP

 

[rowsdower]

You probably shouldn't do it if your time is of great value.

 

[uaecasher]

I say upgrade, why?

Snow leopard is more effeient and supported (gets update from apple)

hope this helps

 

[JavierP]

if I were you, I wouldnt.

CONs

You have the minimum RAM requeriment
Upgrading takes time
Troubleshooting the upgrade takes even more time
Some 3rd party apps. may require upgrades
SL isn't old enough, it still has some quirks
If it aint broke, dont fix it

PROs

Some apps are dropping Tiger support
Apple may drop Tiger support in the near future

 

[Amdahl]

Don't even think about it until 10.6.4. If you have a pressing need to get off Tiger, move to Leopard 10.5.8 instead.

 

[Eric S.]

would you share a list of pro's and con's for upgrading an iMac from Tiger to Snow Leopard?

Most of the pros you would get just upgrading to Leopard, which is now a very stable OS. SL might give you some performance gain, depending on the applications you run. But SL, as others have noted, is in the early, rather buggy stage of its life. Unless you're willing to risk some instability you'd be better off waiting.

 

[flanamac]

Ram

I would beef up your RAM to the maximum (might be 3GB), and you can do that here rather cheap: www.otherworldcomputing.com

Last thing, if you do this, you should do a completely clean installation meaning reinstalling your applications (which are not on the disk itself) manually. Do not try migrating anything. Install using the erase and install option. You should be fine, but you need more memory.