Knuckledragger

To follow up on my previous post, I have a question. Head-Case has [has a lot|is mostly made up] of Mac users. Many of you have older machines still in use. I'm curious about your experiences running Lion on an older model Mac. My main concern is not legacy app compatibility, but overall system performance. This machine is limited to 4GB of RAM, and has a 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo CPU. It also has a horrific Intel graphics chipset with shared RAM. The new SDD makes load times super speedy, but there is not a lot of horsepower in this machine by today's standards. At any given time, I run FFX (say, 10 tabs), and one of the following: Chrome (1-2 tabs, but often playing a YouTube video which gobbles up CPU cycles), Photoshop CS5 (bloated pig), Traktor (DJ software, efficient, but fairly hungry). I also run a bunch of small footprint apps: Transmission (torrent client), Twitter, Adium, Mail, etc. To be honest, the main reason I'm considering upgrading to Lion is so I can use $%#&* 1Password. Also, 10.6.8 is kind of long in the tooth these days.

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In case anyone didn't get that Avengers GIF:

My Macintop is now running on a 256GB Crucial M4 SSD. So far, so good. /me knocks on wood Having been through this process once before, the second time was relatively painless. I had to use the Trim Enabler app in order to get Trim support working, but other than that there were no hiccups. I'm sticking with OS 10.6.8 for now. I'm still concerned about 10.7 running too slowly on my geriatric laptop. I've read quite a few reports of 10.8 being significantly more responsive and efficient on older machines. Of course, 10.8 doesn't support my machine, so...

A semi-literate guide to the Steam ToS: What is this I don't even.

Biff from Back to the Future carries this FAQ around if you ask him about the movie: Man assaults girlfriend over suspected Facebook affair with Mitt Romney

*snicker*

lol Yankees fans.