Richard Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Hi buddys! 1. Could those of you running 10.7 please give some feedback on the overall performance? I fear Lion might feel sluggish on my D620 (2GB, GMA950, 1.67GHz, SSD). 2. I'd like to upgrade from my 802.11 b/g to Draft-N. I'm not sure which Mini PCI-E Card models are compatible, though. I'm considering the Broadcom BCM4322. Any experience on that? Full speed? Thank you in advance! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted June 17, 2011 Administrators Share Posted June 17, 2011 well i've been testing it and i don't feel it's any slower than running snow leopard and that's on a sata drive. now with ssd lion has trim support so i don't know how that would affect your rig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agrerald Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 1. Lion runs faster than Snow Leopard on D620 2. I think you best get a apple airport extreme BCM94322 or BCM94321 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simeonoff Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 Hello everyone, Lion is not faster than Snow Leopard, at least not for me, at least not when talking about animations and transitions. It feels heavy and choppy when it comes to that, leaving impressions that it's being run on a very slow computer. About overall performance, it performs good in normal things like copying files, opening apps, listening to music, and stuff like that...you won't feel any difference between SL and Lion there. But man... try going full screen with quick time... mission control animation is just unbearable. Mission control lags a lot when you have more than one Desktop and more than 3 applications open in one desktop... Expose lags like hell. Moreover, try opening a folder within Launchpad with a dozen of icons in it, I feel as if I am reading a comic book. No real smooth transition there either. Even resizing windows feels choppy. At least for me this is something that bugs me a lot, people who don't care about animations and transitions might find Lion relatively fast. To wrap up, I am running Lion on a D630 equipped with C2D T7500@2,2GHz, 2GB of DDR2 667 RAM, 320GB 7200RPM Hard drive, X3100 144 MB shared memory video. I saw a couple of videos on YouTube from people who filmed their old white Macbooks(similar specs to my D630) running Lion, and it lagged for them the way it lagged for me. Soo... anyone who says Lion is faster is either blind or did something more in terms of optimizations and kexts than I did. Anyhow, Lion is still a no go for me. You decide for yourself how the 950 performs next to the X3100 as I feel this is the only weak spot we have when it comes to running Lion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted June 17, 2011 Administrators Share Posted June 17, 2011 i think lion demands at least 4 gigs of ram Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simeonoff Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 i think lion demands at least 4 gigs of ram So it's all smooth like butter for you with 4 gigs of ram and nothing of the above I wrote applies for you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted June 17, 2011 Administrators Share Posted June 17, 2011 i will test your methods when i get to my d620 and report back in the evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
simeonoff Posted June 17, 2011 Share Posted June 17, 2011 i will test your methods when i get to my d620 and report back in the evening Great, BIG THANKS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted June 18, 2011 Administrators Share Posted June 18, 2011 ok i ran green lantern quicktime hd preview full screen, while having chess, photo booth, address book, dictionary, Skype, terminal, system preferences, iTunes, app store, 3 safari tabs including this one 3 desktops with different things open, opened launchpad opened utilities all at the same time and was still watching the preview it looked like it was skipping some frames while catching but if i went back a bit to where it was buffered it was smooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted June 20, 2011 Author Share Posted June 20, 2011 Thank you so much for your replies so far! I understand that you should be good to go on a D6xx with at leat 4GB RAM. Alright, I'll give it a shot! Could anyone please tell me if there are significant differences between Apple BCM94322 and BCM9431? Is one faster than the other? I found these infos below on the net but they don't answer my question. Thanks! Internal Apple AirPort Extreme 802.11n MacBook (Early/Mid 2009) Model #: BCM94322MC Apple Part #: 661-4906 Product code: IF186-084-1 Compatible with: MacBook 2.0 (Santa Rosa) or 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook 2.1 or 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook 2.0 GHz (Early 2009) Core 2 Duo MacBook 2.13 GHz (Mid 2009) Core 2 Duo Internal Apple AirPort Extreme 802.11n MA688Z/A or B Model #: BCM94321MC Apple Part #: 661-4460, 661-4594 Product code: IF185-038-1 Compatible with: MacBook 1.83 or 2 GHz Core Duo MacBook 2.0 (Santa Rosa) or 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook 2.1 or 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro 15" 1.83, 2 or 2.16 GHz (Model A1150) MacBook Pro 17" 2.16 GHz (Model A1151) MacBook Pro 15" 2.4, 2.5 or 2.6 GHz (Model A1260) MacBook Pro 17" 2.5 or 2.5 GHz (Model A1261) iMac 20" 2.0 or 2.4 GHz (EMC No. 2133) Intel Mac Pro (all 2006/2007 Models 2.0, 2.66 & 3.0 Ghz) Mac mini (Core Duo) Apple TV (all models) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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