I had no performance issues upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion and did not have to do a clean install then so you, on that basis, may be OK. I think it is difficult to be definitive. I have heard people who have upgraded from Snow Leopard to Lion, Mountain Lion, and finally Mavericks and report no need for a clean install and no issues. I have also equally heard of people slowing up just after a single upgrade to Mavericks to Mountain Lion. What I did in the end was upgrade first, and then when I was unhappy with this did a clean install. You could similarly try an upgrade first as you could always do a clean install afterwards if you are affected by performance issues.
David Griffith -----Original Message----- From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Andy Collins Sent: 19 July 2014 14:26 To: OS X & iOS Accessibility Subject: Re: Resold I move to Mavericks? David - that's interesting. This is a 2013 machine, so hopefully upgrading will not cause performance issues? - Andy On 19 Jul 2014, at 13:35, "David Griffith" <d.griff...@btinternet.com> wrote: > With a 2010 machine I would definitely do a clean install. > On my 2011 iMac which initially came with Lion thing definitely slowed up > after upgrading to Mavericks. I have head others making this complaint as > well. These problems were largely resolved after I eventually bit the > bullet and did a clean install. I restored settings and documents from my > Time Machine Backup so I did not find it too inconvenient and my machine was > definitely improved compared to the simple upgrade process. > > > David Griffith > > -----Original Message----- > From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net > [mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Ian Harrison > Sent: 19 July 2014 10:28 > To: OS X & iOS Accessibility > Subject: [Bulk] Should I move to Mavericks? > > > Hi listers > > I have a 2010 mac mini, running mountain lion. It is a little slow opening > apps but not too bad yet. 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