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Yes, I know it's not officially supported. I've read that it can be down however, with some possible minor issues which should be able to be fixed.
Here's the situation: I'm addicted to buying gear, so I bought this early 2008 Black Macbook 2.4 GHz on eBay. I am have already ordered a 6 GB ram upgrade and a 500 GB SSD. I am going to be using this laptop primarily for coding/web development.
HOWEVER, this is the problem: My preferred IDE program for coding is Atom, which works only as low as Mavericks.
Now I have two options:
1. Stay with Lion and learn a new IDE, and possibly have other compatibility issues later.
2. Hack the upgrade to Mavericks and possibly have some problems (including a slower user experience), but still be able to use my preferred IDE.
So my question is, is it worth upgrading to Mavericks? I am hoping that with the performance upgrades I should be able to run Mavericks, but I don't want to do the upgrade if the computer will be sluggish because of the OS. Hopefully someone on here has done something similar and can provide some insight, thanks!
Here's the situation: I'm addicted to buying gear, so I bought this early 2008 Black Macbook 2.4 GHz on eBay. I am have already ordered a 6 GB ram upgrade and a 500 GB SSD. I am going to be using this laptop primarily for coding/web development.
HOWEVER, this is the problem: My preferred IDE program for coding is Atom, which works only as low as Mavericks.
Now I have two options:
1. Stay with Lion and learn a new IDE, and possibly have other compatibility issues later.
2. Hack the upgrade to Mavericks and possibly have some problems (including a slower user experience), but still be able to use my preferred IDE.
So my question is, is it worth upgrading to Mavericks? I am hoping that with the performance upgrades I should be able to run Mavericks, but I don't want to do the upgrade if the computer will be sluggish because of the OS. Hopefully someone on here has done something similar and can provide some insight, thanks!