How does Snow Leopard perform on a 32 bit Mac Mini?

Quick Answer: Not as good as it should. It works perfectly as an operating system, but there is a considerable amount of lag when opening applications. If you use it as your home theater PC then it is a disaster as FrontRow is horribly slow.

The strange thing is that Snow Leopard works perfectly on a old White MacBook and made it run faster.

I have an original intel MacBook w/ 1GB of ram and its running like a champ!

It should run fine, but snow leopard flies on 64 bit macs. Its rewritten. However you will see the benefit of the lower RAM usage and less storage used.

You have plenty of RAM for snow leopard. I would say your mini is ready. It runs well on all intel macs.

Just don't push it with graphics intensive programs, as it has the Intel GMA950. Again, keep in mind that Snow Leopard is lighter than Leopard and Tiger. It is also 100% Intel native.

Agreed, if I were doing a ton of RAW work I'd probably get something with a separate graphics board but for most graphics/photo use the mini would be fine. I'm using the latest photoshop and illustrator on a white MacBook from 2006 with 2.5 RAM and works well. Under snow leopard.

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