I am using a macbook from 2008. sadly no longer manufactured. My Operating system is 10.5.8 I am thinking of upgrading to 10.6.8 snow leopard. From the reading i have done on the internet it looks like it maybe problematic. I prefer my macbook to the families new imac with lion 10. whatever. Anyone out there with experience with these 2 OX 10.5.8 and 10.6.8 ? Please advise.

I've been using Snow Leopard for a while now, and refuse to "upgrade" to any of the Lions.

iMac, with SL on an older and rarely used MB

Yep - my computer's gonna remain frozen in time. Never upgraded, works just as good as the day I bought it, by golly. No need to upgrade for security - that's what guns are fer! Don't need that new fangled crap on my old fangled 'puter.

And what you mean - your 2008 Macbook - "sadly, no longer manufactured"? Thank god they keep upgrading and improving - not keep selling that 6 year old "low" technology.

Yep - my computer's gonna remain frozen in time. Never upgraded, works just as good as the day I bought it, by golly. No need to upgrade for security - that's what guns are fer! Don't need that new fangled crap on my old fangled 'puter.

And what you mean - your 2008 Macbook - "sadly, no longer manufactured"? Thank god they keep upgrading and improving - not keep selling that 6 year old "low" technology.

Yup that good ol' low end technology that could burn CD's Play DVD's try that with a MacBook air. and sold for under 1,000 US. now a mac book pro can do all those things and only costs 500 US more. That is the low end mac book pro

My MBP is a late 2008. I put 8 GB RAM in it and a 7200 RPM 750 GB hard drive. So I updated my software while I was at it. I'm now running 10.7.5 I actually like it better than 10.6.8 which I was running before. Having said that, I did a clean install of all the applications as well, nothing from Time Machine or Carbon Cloner. It runs all my applications, even one or two that said it wouldn't work with and I have loads of applications!

I like new stuff myself and don’t really get the reluctance of some to embrace progress, as it were. Haven’t touched a CD or DVD in ages. Everything just moves so smoothly from iMac, to Air, to iPhone, to television, to whatever, that I no longer use the old ways of doing things. Maybe that is just me.

10.6 Snow Leopard is the best; recommended. I with they'd do another release like that. 10.6 was special when Apple announced that they would, not have any new features, and instead focus on fixing up and slimming down everything.

The vast majority of new features in Lion/Mountain Lion I never use. I need Mountain Lion for the retina MacBook Pro so no choice.