update to Yosemite?

[btothekal]

Hello,
I have a MacBook Air from back in 2010 - 2011, it has 2GBs of RAM and I am not sure if updating it to Yosemite would be a good improvement in speed or not. I know that Yosemite has been out for sometime now. I am just not sure how good it would be on this MacBook Air with only 2GBs of RAM. Please help out.

 

[flowrider]

Couple of quotes from 2011 MBA owners:

My mid-2011 13" Air still looks like new and runs El Capitan much smoother than Lion.

I have a 2011 11" Air (1.6/2/256) as my primary laptop nowadays, and it runs El Captain quite well. I have a 2011 21" iMac (2.5/32/750 fusion) as my main machine, so I don't do a whole lot of intensive stuff on the Air, so it serves my needs just fine. That said, I'm still using a 12" PowerBook as my main computer at work (I'm a high school teacher), so my needs aren't super intense

Lou

 

[cerberusss]

System requirements haven't changed as far as I know. I don't think it'll run any faster, nor will it run any slower.

But besides, why don't you try it out? I think it's possible to do a full system restore from a Time Machine backup.

 

[garirry]

Is it running Lion or later? Then yes, you should upgrade hands down. Is it running Snow Leopard? Backup your data using Time Machine, upgrade, and if you don't like it, restore to the old backup.

 

[Meister]

From my experience El Capitan works very well on:

• machines with an ssd
• machines with an hdd and a lot of ram

It does not work as well on machines with 2gb ram and an hdd. With those machines I'd stick to ML.

Since your macbook is a recent one with an ssd I'd recommend El Capitan.

 

[rambo47]

Only 2GB of RAM may be problematic. I have a 4GB MBA 2010 model and it runs El Capitan beautifully.