Snow Leopard or Mountain Lion?

If you use your computer for production I would not recommend upgrading unless lion will add a feature that you need. My mac has similar specs to yours and it runs lion fine but is slightly slower than under snow leopard.

If your mac is running ok on Snow leopard then leave it be - lion even tho has some more features its not as quick, if you have issues on your mac then resolve those (Start with the shift ket pressed and keep it pressed throughout startup) this does an auto diagnostic and repair - once your mac has started do a permissions repair on your drive (Utilitiys and drive utility) This may assist.

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