Re: AUGD: Re: LION
Re: AUGD: Re: LION
- Subject: Re: AUGD: Re: LION
- From: List Account <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2011 02:21:50 +0100
Of course it's possible to buy an old Mac mini, but that is a lot slower than the new ones, as the benchmark tests show. I'l just keep using my old Mac and keep my money.
The best 'old' mini scored 4,040 on Geekbench, whereas the top i7 tested scored 9,573 when tested by Macminicolo and reported in MacRumours.
http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/21/new-mac-mini-benchmarks-show-significant-performance-gains/
Last time I looked into this with any effort I found a few places where the downgrade had been possible, but not without speed loss down to a Benchmark score of about 570 or so.
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On 31 Oct, 2011, at 23:27, Victoria L. Herring wrote:
> I'm sure you can go to Powermax or some other reliable vendor and get an 'old' Mini with SL on it already...I don't mind Lion but certainly understand that others do and will....but do some searching around and you can find a pre Lion Mini still - but time is running I am sure.
> On Oct 31, 2011, at 4:30 PM, List Account wrote:
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>> Although you can upgrade from Lion to Snow Leopard with most Macs - including the early 2011 new iMacs - if you try to do it on a new late 2011 Mac mini you lose Thunderbolt connectivity and your speed falls to 25% of pre-upgrade speeds - presumably due to some loss of ability to use more than one core. I know it isn't Lion that's quicker because Snow Leopard runs faster on the early 2011 iMacs than Lion does.
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>> The fact that I can't get a new Mac mini with Snow Leopard has stopped me from buying one. All because of a $29 operating system I can't buy a $1,000+ Mac mini. Crazy really, but then I haven't replaced my four year old iMac at home either because I can't get one with a non-glossy screen.
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>> As far as upgrading from Lion to Snow Leopard (going the other way is surely a downgrade! lol!) is concerned for other machines, I've read of loads of people who have tried Lion and then gone back to Snow Leopard. This isn't just because there's no Rosetta and businesses have legacy apps, but because it's so darn' buggy and unreliable.
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