My mom has a 2009-model vanilla Macbook, running 10.5.8 and is looking to upgrade to Mountain Lion. It's relatively old to be honest and a rather low spec system, so I guess what my question is is can it run Mountain Lion and how well if possible? Would it maybe be better to just upgrade to Snow Leopard and get it from the App Store? I'll post the specs later if that's needed, she's busy with it at the moment so I can't do it now. Any help would be appreciated.
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2009 Vanilla Macbook + OSX Mountain Lion?
Started By MasterAssassin713, Aug 02 2012 09:20 PM
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Posted 02 August 2012 - 09:20 PM
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Posted 02 August 2012 - 09:25 PM
I can assure you that upgrading to SNow Leopard will make the machine faster and give you access to security upgrades and such.
As so ML; it's still fairly new, so I'd hold on with upgrading to it for now.
As so ML; it's still fairly new, so I'd hold on with upgrading to it for now.
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Posted 02 August 2012 - 10:29 PM
You still need to buy SL, and upgrade from that to ML, an extra 20$. Most of the new features are restricted to new macs only, so try out SL and see if it runs better like Cluthz said then think about ML
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Posted 02 August 2012 - 11:23 PM
Alright, thanks a lot guys! That sounds like a good idea. We'll give it a try.
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