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Can you point me to this Xcode download please?

If you're a registered developer, it's on developer.apple.com under Additional Downloads

https://developer.apple.com/downloads/

When in Snow Leopard, I use Xcode 4.2 and the storyboards aren't compatible with the newer versions of Xcode.

Ah. Good info. Glad I subscribe here. Thanks.

2011 mini is the latest that can boot SL. Apple Discussions has thread abt how to install SL and make it run fast(er). (Requires bringing a few sys files from Lion...)

Care to toss me the link to that thread?

https://discussions.apple.com/message/21923542?ac_cid=tw123456#21923542

It's a seriously long thread (40-plus pages) -- the kernel of the instructions start (to the best of my memory) at p.19(?). The guy whose posts you want to watch closely (who came up with this hack) is NewFoundGlory (a.k.a. NFG). His are the kernel of the idea, but others offer valuable insight.

And I think that the 2012 and later minis won't allow this.

But it's straightforward (note absence of the word "easy") and doesn't require any software you probably don't have or can download (links in the thread). It does run at about 90 percent speed that ML runs natively on the mini (compared to about 50-60 percent when running SL without this hack).

Let's see. The open/save dialogs where the sheet comes down. Making the dock display and hide instantly, there are others. I forget. I've got most in a set of Terminal commands.

Care to forward the list of commands?

So unlike most others who miss Rosetta and other SL features, you are running ML virtually (instead of vice versa)? I had not considered this. Seriously cool idea.

Yep. I checked in with the author of Carbon Copy cloner and showed him how to do it and he said that if he knew how to do that 6 months ago, he would still be in Snow Leopard.

My 17" MBP (Not buying another MBP until they make a 17 and one that is user serviceable) boots to Snow Leopard off an SSD and has a second drive for extra stuff. I only wish I could put in 24 or 32 GB of RAM, since Safari always ends up being such a bloated memory pig.

Gad, for the longest time I thought it was something I had mis-configured, or was an inherent deficiency with the 2011 mini/SL hack that was causing such huge slow-downs. Then it struck me that the configuration slows miserably only when Safari (and to some degree, Firefox -- God help me, I run both simultaneously a lot of the time) is running. I've turned off java & flash (ClickToPlugin is my friend) and this helps mitigate the worst.

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