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Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion

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On 2015-10-13 00:14, ddmullin1970@gmail.com wrote:
> i Have Mac Mini Fall of 2012
> i5 Duo 2.5 GHz
> 4GB of pc1600 RAM
> 500 GB HDD
>
> Is Mac OS X v10.11 El capitan really faster than
> Mac OS 10.8.2 Mountain Lion it came with, or it's mearly faster than either Mavericks or Yosemite,

Generally no - but OS related graphics rendering for most operations has 
been offloaded to the GPU relieving the CPU of that load.  In that sense 
you get some speed improvement.

>
> Should I split HDD to 2 partitions of 250GB each,
> and Re-Install Mt Lion & El Capitan, one in each Partition?
> or have just El Capitan?

IMO you'll be fine with 10.11 alone.  We're running 10.11 on an MBA here 
with 4 GB of RAM with no issue.

You could consider updating your HDD to SSD some day (no urgency) and 
increasing the RAM as a longer term life extension to that Mac Mini.  No 
urgency to do so.

>
> Mt Lion have Open GL and Aqua, so does Mavericks and Yosemite,
> but El Capitan replaced it with Metal API.

Not so much replaced as offloading rendering to Metal and the GPU.

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mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion ddmullin1970@gmail.com - 2015-10-12 21:14 -0700
  Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-10-12 23:55 -0700
    Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-13 12:40 +0000
  Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-10-13 09:00 -0400
  Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-13 11:30 -0400
  Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion ddmullin1970@gmail.com - 2015-10-13 17:54 -0700
    Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-14 01:44 +0000
      Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion FPP <fredp151@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 22:19 -0400
        Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-13 22:32 -0400
          Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2015-10-13 21:44 -0500
        Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-14 03:48 +0000
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    Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-13 21:11 -0400
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    Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-13 21:18 -0400
  Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion ddmullin1970@gmail.com - 2015-10-13 18:57 -0700
    Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-14 07:34 +0000
  Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion ddmullin1970@gmail.com - 2015-10-13 19:34 -0700
  Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion ddmullin1970@gmail.com - 2015-10-13 21:05 -0700
    Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-14 00:13 -0400
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