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I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard, and my computer got slower and slower as time went on. Opening a file in Vim started to take about 10 seconds. Litera
by dylanz 17y ago
I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard, and my computer got slower and slower as time went on. Opening a file in Vim started to take about 10 seconds. Literally "everything" was slow. Had to reformat and start over. Random, but it adds to my personal statement of "I've never had a smooth OSX upgrade, even after 5 years".
- jonny_noog 17y agoJust to give a counter point, I read about people having problems with the Leopard => Snow Leopard upgrade so I was very cautious when it came time for me to upgrade. I upgraded from Leopard to Snow Leopard on my early 2009 Mac Pro and have not experienced any issues yet. I do however suspect that perhaps the reason I had such a smooth upgrade was because my Mac Pro was quite new and my installation of Leopard at the time it was upgraded to Snow Leopard was pretty much a pristine factory install, with very little if any cruft hanging around. Still these kinds of things make me happy that I keep an up to date bootable backup of my system drive and I'll be purchasing a separate external drive to use with Time Machine some time soon.
- mishmash 17y agoOn the other hand, I've always erased and installed fresh, with Snow Leopard being my first upgrade - and it has been good, with the exception of a corrupt font cache (2500~ fonts).