[geeks] Snow Leopard

[Joshua Boyd]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:23:51PM +0000, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> I have 2GB in my mac mini, I did the upgrade from 10.4 to 10.6 & tbh  
> what I've noticed is that the 5400rpm disk which the system is bundled  
> with is really not up to the job of running 10.6, the system really  
> struggles at certain points like openning itunes, I dont do anything  
> resource intensive apart from running a windows 7 vm very rarely when I  
> have no other option, in which case I close everything else down, but  
> apart from that I mainly have thunderbird, omniweb, opera, terminal &  
> itunes running & that's it.
>
> I have my eyes on a WD 7200rpm disk atm, may have to wait until the new  
> year though.

Any newer disk will probably be faster.  I really don't want to do a HD
swap that will shorten the battery life though, so I guess I'll have to
look into power usage on laptop disks.