• Rolling back from 10.7 Lion to 10.6 Snow Leopard/10.5 Leopard (Mac OSX)
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I'm considering reinstalling OSX, replacing OSX Lion with either Snow Leopard or the original Leopard as my black MacBook (mid/late 2007) is getting very hot, very slow and becoming very bogged down under Lion. It is not the initial Spotlight indexing, as Lion has been on this machine for ~6 months, and I'm putting it down to my MacBook having a lemon of a GPU (GMA950) and with Lion having several GPU-intensive features, the whole system is getting held back. I have a Time Capsule and have an up-to-date backup of my current Lion installation. I'm prepared to do a fresh install but I'd like to use Time Machine to retrieve my applications, my files etc. Is this possible; using Time Machine to get files/applications from a later version of OSX? [editline]30th January 2013[/editline] Having Googled a little more on this, Migration Assistant (which is what I neglected to include in my original post) cannot pull down files from a later version of OSX to an older one; it can only do it in the vice-versa. I will have to copy my files/applications to my external hard disk and then restore them once Snow Leopard is installed again. Question answered!
Have you tried googling the model of the macbook and other people's experiences of Lion on it? It seems unusual that Apple would let it run if it runs this slow. If you do still consider downgrading, I'd downgrade only to snow leopard since then you get to keep the mac app store, and a lot of apps have a snow leopard minimum requirement
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;39419170]Have you tried googling the model of the macbook and other people's experiences of Lion on it? It seems unusual that Apple would let it run if it runs this slow. If you do still consider downgrading, I'd downgrade only to snow leopard since then you get to keep the mac app store, and a lot of apps have a snow leopard minimum requirement[/QUOTE] I have, and lots of people say that SL is better performance wise. I have now downgraded and I can confirm this. The device runs 10C cooler, and is very much quicker and much more responsive. Apple seem to forget the older lines of their machines (and why shouldn't they really?) and the more GPU-intensive features of Lion made my MacBook really slow down quite a bit.
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