Worth moving from Leopard to Snow Leopard?

Rwac · 16 May 2010 at 14:29

Is it worth purchasing Snow Leopard for £25 for my Macbook 2.2 Intel C2D/2.5GB Ram?

Only thing i can see that is different is speed, but is it noticeable.

Logsi · 16 May 2010 at 14:59

I'd say do it! For £25 it's a steal. It's much faster and is continually getting better with updates. 10.6.3 has really opened it up some what.

NickK · 16 May 2010 at 14:59

It will give you a speed increase and applications such as mail, etc are faster. By how much? I can't remember but the major increase in speed for me was an SSD.

steveo · 16 May 2010 at 15:02

i would say yes just for the speed increase with OpenGL even more so with the next update out soon(ish)

Feek · 16 May 2010 at 16:02

Yes.

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Spyhop · 16 May 2010 at 16:55

Might as well but hardly essential.

Rwac · 16 May 2010 at 21:30

Just making my macbook 'desktop-ised' by picking up the funky stand and keyboard/mouse.

Shall get the update

Phate · 16 May 2010 at 21:38

Go for it mate, when I did a clean install of Snow Leopard and installed the new Aperture 3 and Photoshop as they are now running in 64bit its like a new machine!

Rwac · 17 May 2010 at 20:27

Snow Leopard ordered - will update if I notice any discernible performance different.

Now if only the new Cinema Display's weren't so expensive

Dyson · 20 May 2010 at 09:02

Rather than start a new thread, I thought I'd ask in here.

I've got a mac mini running 10.4.11 (Tiger?), can I upgrade to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard with the £25 OS I've seen around?

Mac noob here, so be gentle.

Intel mini btw, incase it makes a difference.

Hutchy · 20 May 2010 at 09:09

You'd have to upgrade to 10.5 and then upgrade to 10.6 as far as I know. I had a few issues myself and ended up doing just that.

Dyson · 20 May 2010 at 09:11

Hutchy said:
You'd have to upgrade to 10.5 and then upgrade to 10.6 as far as I know. I had a few issues myself and ended up doing just that.

Thanks for the quick reply.

Cobertizo · 20 May 2010 at 12:17

Dyson said:
I've got a mac mini running 10.4.11 (Tiger?), can I upgrade to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard with the £25 OS I've seen around?

You can physically upgrade directly from 10.4 to 10.6 using that disc, but you won't be properly licensed unless you also own a license for 10.5 for that machine.

IceBus · 20 May 2010 at 12:34

I'm (finally) upgrading from 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard today, so I can post back some thoughts later on. I've been getting a lot of beachballs lately so I'll be interested to see how it fares.

Slogan · 20 May 2010 at 12:57

Yes.

Recently did it on a Mac Mini of similar spec and it's definitely nippier.

Vonhelmet · 20 May 2010 at 13:17

Cobertizo said:
You can physically upgrade directly from 10.4 to 10.6 using that disc, but you won't be properly licensed unless you also own a license for 10.5 for that machine.

The upgrade disc is identical to the full install disc, so there's really no difference besides how much you pay to Apple. I really wouldn't worry about some arguable licensing issues.

Feek · 20 May 2010 at 14:26

Well the licence conditions are pretty straightforward. The licensing conditions aren't arguable at all.

From the upgrade:

Subject to the terms and conditions of this License, you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer as long as that computer has a properly licensed copy of Mac OS X Leopard already installed on it.

The non upgrade doesn't include that bit in bold, it just says:

you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at a time.

It's all down to trust really, you can buy the upgrade pack and upgrade from Tiger, everything will work and nobody will ever know any difference but you're not actually licensed.

IceBus · 20 May 2010 at 20:00

Well a few hours later, all backed up and running Snow Leopard with all the updates. I've got to say it's a revelation. It's gotten rid of 90% of my beachball instances and everything just seems... smoother. Scrolling in Safari is smoother, opening new tabs with cmd click is smoother... I'm very very happy - very well spent £25

meghatronic · 21 May 2010 at 23:13

Native 64bit xcode/ruby/etc... er... yes! That and the inbuilt VPN make is a nobrainer for me personally.

Although the updates today did completely kiill my Mac Pro, but we'll let that slip whilst time machine restores

Berserker · 22 May 2010 at 20:32

Must. Find. Time. I'm coming from Tiger unfortunately so it's wipe the disk and start again time.