Why snow leopard is better than lion

I have a complicated case, see anyone can give a short cut. BR, Kevin. Reply I have this question too I have this question too Me too Me too. Helpful answers Drop Down menu. Which apps work with Mac OS X View answer in context. Loading page content. User profile for user: Limnos Limnos. Reply Helpful Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. Reply Helpful 1 Thread reply - more options Link to this Post. Ask a question Reset. Michael Steeber. But how did this perception develop?

Was Mac OS X Snow Leopard really the gold standard of software releases, an undefeated champion in the halls of computing history? Believe it or not, the meme is almost as old as the software itself. Meanwhile, an entire new crop of Apple customers were experiencing the Mac for the first time, enticed to switch after trying out the iPhone. Coming from Windows machines of the era, Mac OS X was unparalleled in its level of polish and ease of use. Snow Leopard also set a new precedent for software pricing.

Snow Leopard was also the last version of Mac OS X to be sold on a disk — which you can still buy today! Soon after release, a major bug was discovered in Snow Leopard that would cause the home directories of guest accounts to be wiped completely. The issue was prevalent enough that Apple publicly responded and later issued an update, Early updates to Snow Leopard were packed with fixes to a long list of bugs.

Time heals all wounds, right? For the most part, we found only minor speed variations between the two operating systems. Lion seemed a touch slower in our Photoshop CS5 batch processing test, but it also has a similarly small edge in iTunes encoding.

We can't explain the variations with certainty, but it seems that iTunes does indeed benefit from the shift to bit support.

For Photoshop CS5, which does not yet support Lion's versioning capability, the performance dip could come from background code tied to versioning, or perhaps it's simply an optimization issue.

Although the performance deltas on both iTunes and Photoshop exceed our 5 percent threshold for statistical relevance, neither is that dramatic. At least on our benchmark tests, it appears that Lion will provide the same speedy performance as its predecessor. Have you had a different experience with Lion's performance? Let us know. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic.

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