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Will Snow Leopard slow down FCP and rest of system performance on an older Intel Mac Pro?
Hey all,
I’ve been mulling over a Snow Leopard upgrade now that Avid v4 supports it, and obviously so does FCP (I have to edit in both worlds). My concern is that Leopard seemed to slow down from Tiger. Is Snow Leopard going to slow me down on my older intel mac pro 2×3 GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon from 2006, 12 gigs of Ram, ATI 3870 graphics card? I have this deep suspicion that this is how Apple gets older systems like my 2006 intel mac pro, to upgrade to newer systems by making their newest operating systems get slower and slower as they become more processor intensive. I’ve done searches on this forum and barefeats and couldn’t come up with anything on this (snow leopard on older mac pros)…
Thoughts?
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It’s real snappy here on two 8-Core 2.8 Ghz and one 8-Core 3.0 Ghz.
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No. It makes it faster, if anything. Its more optimized for the Intel Processors.
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[Bryan Roberts] “I have this deep suspicion that this is how Apple gets older systems like my 2006 intel mac pro, to upgrade to newer systems by making their newest operating systems get slower and slower as they become more processor intensive. “
Actually, the reverse is true. Ars Technica’s John Siracusa famously wrote:
For over three years now, Mac OS X has gotten faster with every release—and not just “faster in the experience of most end users”, but faster on the same hardware. This trend is unheard of among contemporary desktop operating systems.
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I remember a specific update of 10.4 on my old MacBook Pro made everything sooo much faster.
Boot time, UI response, everything.Obviously these Apple folks really do “Think Differently”
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