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

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion
Date	2015-10-13 12:40 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnn1pv2f.m4.g.kreme@amelia.local> (permalink)
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In message <vilain-34AAC4.23550012102015@news.individual.net> 
  Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:
> In article <a4656b5d-a8d0-4702-8136-fca75f1428a2@googlegroups.com>,
>  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,
>> 
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> Mt Lion have Open GL and Aqua, so does Mavericks and Yosemite,
>> but El Capitan replaced it with Metal API.

> I'd put as much memory as you can into that machine.  16GB is the most 
> it will hold.  4GB won't be enough, IMO.

4GB under 10.11 will be better than 4GB under 10.8, so if 4GB is fine
now, it will be fine.

Yes, *I* would max the RAM (and did on my 2012 mini) but moving up to
10.11 doesn't require more memory.


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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
  Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion pukoogirl@gmail.com - 2015-10-13 17:59 -0700
  Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion penaduel@gmail.com - 2015-10-13 18:07 -0700
    Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-13 21:11 -0400
    Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-10-14 07:33 +0000
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    Re: mac mini fall of 2012, El Capitan faster than mountain Lion nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-10-13 21:18 -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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