Is it worth upgrading to Yosemite from Snow Leopard ?

[shiftspark]

I have a macbook pro circ mid 2009 and thinking about upgrading but not sure if its worth it. Safari is now too old and laggy so I run Chrome which is ok but prefer Safari, I have an ipad but android phone.
The reviews seem to say its great to bring all your apple devices together but as I have an android phone I am not sure ?
What do you think of it or should I stay on Snow Leopard. Last time I updated from Tiger I had to buy it on disc lol

 

[Jack!]

No, f**king shitty Wifi issues.

 

[dk]

I'd say yes, love Yosemite, no wifi issues here. That's if a 2009 will run it?

 

[DannyR]

I would but I would upgrade your RAM.

We've done our 2010 MacBook, and it's fine expect just so so slow. Need to get 4GB in it really!

 

[Deeg]

I would but I would upgrade your RAM.

We've done our 2010 MacBook, and it's fine expect just so so slow. Need to get 4GB in it really!

Same here.

And Safari is horrific now IME.

 

[DannyR]

Yep, just need to find £60 for the RAM.

Probably didn't help I also added my iTunes library off of my NAS onto it a week before, not much storage space either on it!

 

[Deeg]

Yeah, most of my 500GB hd is nearly full too.

Need to sort it really, but haven't got round to it.

 

[ChrisR]

I held onto snow leopard as long as I could before upgrading and finally bit the bullet for Yosemite and it's been just fine for me.

Running on an early 2011 13 inch MBP, it already had 8 gig in it and used the OS upgrade as a good excuse to get an SSD in it as well.

Few niggles to start with but have managed to get pretty much everything back to how I want it, only thing is the gesture to show desktop has changed and preferred it the old way :tongueout: guess there may be a way to get that back to how it was?

Apart from the fact the other devices sync with iTunes i don't use any of the device integration stuff, doesn't interest me and don't really have the need for it.

At the least it gives you newer version of Safari and a few more features I was after.

 

[shiftspark]

Looks like I will stick with SL then for now, chrome is ok once its run for a few minutes otherwise its always looking for a shockwave plug in ?

 

[shiftspark]

I assume you use a small ssd with the os on and store everything else on the hard drive?

 

[ChrisR]

No just use a 500 gig SSD for everything.