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samo1215

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Feb 26, 2008
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I asked this question in the Macbook Pro forum but it is also very much a Windows centric question so here goes.

So I have a 2008 Macbook Pro. It works but is definitely starting to show its age. Right now I have OSX 10.6.8 installed and was wondering if upgrading to 10.9 would give it much of a performance boost.

The reason I'm asking this here is the area I have the biggest issue with is in running virtual machines (specifically WinXP). I have Parallels 6 and noticed that when I went from OSX 10.5 to 10.6, all of my VMs starting running super slowly. If I upgrade to 10.9 I have to upgrade to Parallels 9 as well but would rather spend the $50 on the Parallels upgrade than the $2000+ to get a new computer.

And then what about upgrading my Windows VM as well. Would I be served better by going to Win7 or 8 or would they be too demanding for my machine?

Any thoughts?
 
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