My MacBook is 4 years old. It's an Intel Core 2 Duo, but since it's an older machine, I wonder if it has enough horses to run Lion well. My other Mac is a 7 year old iBook. It still runs Tiger so that I can use my even older HP1100 printer.
I hate to say it as a devoted Maccie, but one thing I've noticed over the years is that Safari and FF have gotten kludgier and kludgier. I don't know if it's the fault of my old MacBook, the Mac OS, the browsers, or that pages have just become more complex. I used to be able to leave my iMac and iBook on for weeks at a time w/o needing to restart browsers. Now, I have to shut down FF after each use just to play it safe, and if I open Safari while FF is open, my whole system slows to the point that I have to reboot.
Unless your MacBook has more than 4G RAM I won't recommend Lion. The iBook sounds about the same age as mine and is probably a PowerPC machine which won't run Lion. Mine is a dedicated music machine hooked up to a turn table. Someday I will get all those OLD albums digitized.
I use Safari and FF and agree that they have problems. What version of FF are you using? 3 and 5 are good, 4 is a kludgy mess and not recommended. A number of people I know use Google Chrome and are very happy. I keep thinking I'll change and then inertia wins.
I've been "in charge" of about 150 assorted Macs all purposed to run high-end graphics software. I mostly do illustration and 3D animation. I've been using Macs since the ancient Mac SE and rate myself as very devoted.
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Date: 2011-07-23 02:58 am (UTC)I hate to say it as a devoted Maccie, but one thing I've noticed over the years is that Safari and FF have gotten kludgier and kludgier. I don't know if it's the fault of my old MacBook, the Mac OS, the browsers, or that pages have just become more complex. I used to be able to leave my iMac and iBook on for weeks at a time w/o needing to restart browsers. Now, I have to shut down FF after each use just to play it safe, and if I open Safari while FF is open, my whole system slows to the point that I have to reboot.
Pages have just gotten ridiculously complex.
And GET OFF MY LAWN!
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Date: 2011-07-23 03:44 am (UTC)I use Safari and FF and agree that they have problems. What version of FF are you using? 3 and 5 are good, 4 is a kludgy mess and not recommended. A number of people I know use Google Chrome and are very happy. I keep thinking I'll change and then inertia wins.
I've been "in charge" of about 150 assorted Macs all purposed to run high-end graphics software. I mostly do illustration and 3D animation. I've been using Macs since the ancient Mac SE and rate myself as very devoted.