However, this is where the problems seemed to start: Chrome was slow, sluggish. Experience suggests a reboot and login is a pretty rare occurrence, so I’ve never been bothered by this. Login was characteristically a slow experience – this is one thing that could be quicker, but I do have a number of apps that I set to launch on login, like Twitter for Mac, Chrome and the usual like Dropbox etc. A little over half an hour later, I was presented with the smooth iOS-style login screen.
DROPBOX FOR MAC OS X 10.5.8 UPGRADE
The upgrade process was pretty smooth and didn’t require any input from me. It wasn’t a clean upgrade – in fact, I’ve upgraded it from Tiger to Leopard (on launch day) and then to Snow Leopard. This morning, I took the plunge and installed Mac OS X Lion on my late-2007 MacBook Pro (2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 GB RAM).
Even if you want to do a clean install, you must download Lion via the App Store first and then follow the various guides.
DROPBOX FOR MAC OS X 10.5.8 INSTALL
You’ll also have to be running Mac OS X Snow Leopard, version 10.6.8 to install Lion. Also, while you can get away with running Lion on 2 GB RAM, experience from Snow Leopard suggests 4 GB is a comfortable minimum for multi-tasking. This means users with the very first generation of Mac and Intel hardware (Core Solo/Core Duo) are excluded from the upgrade. The most important change is that you’ll need at least an Intel Core 2 Duo to run Lion. So what does today’s launch of Mac OS X Lion mean for users of older Mac hardware?įirstly, the minimum system requirements are very similar to OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Of course, it’s not just the processor and RAM – what if you don’t have a newer glass trackpad with multi-touch, or an SSD? A Mac bought four years ago can still happily run many of today’s productivity and design applications.Īlso, buying a Mac can be a relatively large investment, particularly for students – so you don’t want to junk it every time Apple release an upgrade. One of the great things about owning a Mac is that for most tasks, you don’t suffer the same slow down that can be suffered by many Windows users.
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