OS X :: Snow Leopard Make Mac Run Slower?

Sep 2, 2009

Put snow leopard on my 15" MacBook Pro 2.2ghz core 2 duo, 2ghz ram, 128mb video ram computer (purchased in late 2007 right after Leopard came out). The computer was running great on Leopard, no hitches whatsoever. Put snow leopard on it, expecting to experience performance boosts, cool new features (LOL), and just all in all a more stable computer. Got none of these.

Everything on the computer runs slower than before. Noticeably. Battery life is significantly less than before as well.

Anyone else experience these same issues on their Macbook?

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Sep 4, 2009

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