Will Downgrading to OSX SNOW LEOPARD Speed up my 2009 MacBook Pro?

[redheeler]

Just use Google Chrome if you need Flash...

God no. Chrome is a terrible resource hog.

So is Flash. They make a perfect pair.

 

[NT1440]

Shunning Maverick's memory compression and timer coalescing doesn't sound like a way to speed things up to me.

 

[redheeler]

Shunning Maverick's memory compression and timer coalescing doesn't sound like a way to speed things up to me.

My late 2008 MacBook Air runs faster and quieter on Snow Leopard compared to Mavericks. Snow Leopard is simply much better optimized for the slow spinning hard drive and 2 GB RAM while Mavericks is not.

 

[Eithanius]

God no. Chrome is a terrible resource hog.

Nobody ask you to use Google Chrome all the way... Only if and when you need Flash... Can't you use simple logic...? The reason to use Chrome negates the ideal of installing Flash itself onto the OS...

I'm on Snow Leopard, and knowing Safari is severely outdated, I use Firefox as a substitute, only Chrome if I need Flash...

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I’m going off memory here so I could be mistaken, but I seem to remember reading somewhere about Snow Leopard DVDs not being able to install directly to certain SSDs. I think it was something like the required drivers didn’t get added until 10.6.7 or thereabouts. So you can clone an existing Snow Leopard 10.6.8 installation to an SSD and it’ll work fine, but you can’t install directly from the DVD to the SSD.

Again, I could be mistaken, but it might be worth looking into.

I don't know about retails copies of 10.6, but my MBP came with its own disc that installs 10.6.3, firstly on my OCZ Vertex 2, now on Crucial M500, both without issues...

From SL I clean install Mavericks and Yosemite onto separate partitions for testing purposes without the need of bootable USB drive.