MacOS – Snow Leopard vs. Lion performance: what are the differences

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Is Snow Leopard or Lion faster?

And how significant is the speed difference?

Best Answer

There's very little difference.

Check out this cnet review it shows the performance of applications like Photoshop, Call of Duty 4 etc. on a 27" 2011 iMac running Snow Leopard & Lion: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20081987-1/snow-leopard-vs-lion-performance-head-to-head/, which concludes:

For the most part, we found only minor speed variations between the two operating systems.

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