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Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks?

From Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks?
Date 2015-04-11 14:49 +1200
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In article <55288574$0$22174$2c56edd9@usenetrocket.com>, John Albert
<j.albert@snet.net> wrote:
> On 4/9/15 8:48 AM, Lewis wrote:
> > 
> > Nothing about taht is true. Yosemite runs jsut as well from an spinning
> > drive.
> 
> I suggest you trying running it from a 4200rpm drive in a firewire400 
> enclosure... ;)    (I did)
> 
> There have been numerous reports (at places like forums.macrumors.com 
> and macintouch.com) about the sluggishness of Yosemite on a 
> platter-based drive. Even Ric Ford, who runs macintouch, complained 
> about it and remarked how much of an improvement he experienced simply 
> by changing from a platter based drive to an SSD.
> 
> Actually, I'm typing this right now while running Yosemite from an 
> external Seagate drive (may be 7200rpm, don't know) over a firewire800 
> connection on a late-2012 Mac Mini. Runs pretty good, but doesn't match 
> the performance of my "regular" OS which is 10.8.5 (booting and running 
> from an SSD in a USB3/SATA dock).
<snip>

Apple and oranges. Of course any OS on a SSD will be faster at booting
and running than any OS on a hard drive - that's the basically the main
point of using an SSD. Try comparing 10.8.5 installed on a hard drive
(and via a Firewire 800 connection) to get a remotely sensible
comparison.

A newer software is also often slower than an older version, simply
because they add more features, drivers, etc. that have to be loaded.
That's partly why Apple and other software companies limit the hardware
requirements to newish computers - often the software would run fine on
an old model, but is considered to be too slow (for example, you can
hack Mac OS X 10.3 to run on a beige PowerMac G3, but Apple considered
it not good enough of an experience, so the minimum system requirement
is a G4).

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  Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-04-04 21:02 -0700
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    Re: Upgrading Snow Leopard to Yosemite: Gotchas? Risks? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-04-09 12:48 +0000
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