The refit, boldly going from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion

Table of contents for From Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion

  1. The refit, boldly going from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion
  2. The refit: installing memory and hard drive
  3. The refit: Installing Mountain Lion
  4. The refit: Got bit by a Mountain Lion
  5. Would you like some whine with your Mountain Lion?

It’s an exciting day for me and my venerable (2008) MacPro. I’m bringing the memory up to 8GB, adding a terabyte drive and upgrading to Mountain Lion. Currently downloading the 4.37GB upgrade (thank goodness I increased my broadband speed).

The old girl’s been sluggish of late, mostly I’m sure the result of a 500 GB hard drive that was formatted in 2008 and has been operating continuously since then, but also the result of only having 4GB of ram. Now if you think that ought to be enough, the other day I realized I had Safari, Word, PhotoShop, Illustrator, BBEdit and Fetch all running at the same time, not to mention Windows Vista running in Parallels.

I admit this may only buy me another year on this Mac, but Apple (Tim Cook) said there would be a major upgrade to the MacPro line this year. Sadly, I may switch to an iMac finally, but I think a major MacPro upgrade will be the motivation to get an new computer.

OK, maybe two more years, unless those rumors of Apple dumping Intel are true.

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Jennifer Petkus divides her time between writing Jane Austen-themed mysteries, creating websites for the dead, woodworking, aikido and building model starships. She has few credentials, having failed to graduate from the University of Texas with a journalism degree, but did manage to find employment at the Colorado Springs Sun newspaper as a cop reporter, copy editor and night city editor before the paper died in 1986. She has done little since. Her husband is the night editor at The Denver Post. Her best friend is a cop. She watched Neil Armstrong walk on the Moon live. She is the author of, Good Cop, Dead Cop: A Novel about the AfterNet. She’s writing the sequel, The Background Noise of Souls, and another AfterNet related story, Jane Austen’s Book Tour.

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