madoka macrumors 6502a Original poster Jul 17, 2002 529 156 Mar 14, 2015 #1 I dusted off my late 2010 MBA. It has a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo with 2gig memory. I wanted to reformat this and hand it off to my kid. Which OS should I reformat it with? TIA
I dusted off my late 2010 MBA. It has a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo with 2gig memory. I wanted to reformat this and hand it off to my kid. Which OS should I reformat it with? TIA
ecschwarz macrumors 65816 Jun 28, 2010 1,438 357 Mar 14, 2015 #2 madoka said: I dusted off my late 2010 MBA. It has a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo with 2gig memory. I wanted to reformat this and hand it off to my kid. Which OS should I reformat it with? TIA Click to expand... Thanks to the better memory management in OS X Mavericks (and to an extent OS X Yosemite), you should be fine with those and 2GB RAM. It may page a bit to the SSD, but that's fast enough that your kid should be fine for most things.
madoka said: I dusted off my late 2010 MBA. It has a 1.4GHz Core 2 Duo with 2gig memory. I wanted to reformat this and hand it off to my kid. Which OS should I reformat it with? TIA Click to expand... Thanks to the better memory management in OS X Mavericks (and to an extent OS X Yosemite), you should be fine with those and 2GB RAM. It may page a bit to the SSD, but that's fast enough that your kid should be fine for most things.