Not the surf break – the OS

3 year old iMac on 10.6.8

3.06GHz Intel Duo with 4Gb Ram

Now being offered free Mavericks upgrade…

Go for it? Leave as is??

what does the hive mind think?

It’ll be fine, but to be honest I didn’t really notice much difference so maybe not bother unless there is some feature that you know you’ll make good use of.

If you can, start from a fresh, for best performance.

FWIW, my Hackintosh is the following spec, running Mavericks:

(2008 spec hardware!)

Core2Quad 2.3
8GB DDR2
256 SDD
GTX 260 GPU (dual)

I’ve had no issues. But then I can’t think of any massive advantages either. I’m sure there are loads though!

Was hoping thread was going to be about proper Maverick’s…

There’s a whole load of extra security stuff in Mavericks which you won’t have received in any Snow Leopard update. There was also some speed optimising done on the OS for Lion which removed a lot of unnecessary code. If you can start from a wiped disc (min 3 pass erase as a normal erase sometimes has odd preferences picked up from the old software). Plan well before nuking it though.
Says the sad sack who’s doing a server migration on a Friday night!