Hi folks,
Gosh, it's been a long time since I posted, but this is for 2 main reasons - 1) I've been busy, shockingly so and 2) I've not had a reason to search for help. This second reason leads me to therefore post an update and again, thank the tonymacx86 community.
I built my machine back around Xmas 2010 and it is now 4 years old and has run WITHOUT a hiccup for that time. I have several drives in the machine, my main drive running Snow Leopard, another running Mountain Lion, another Windows 7 (or 8, I can't remember!) and a couple more - gosh, I can't even remember how I set this up....although the path I followed will be present throughout this site.
I've kept Snow Leopard as my main system as it's faultless and quick for what I need. The same can be said for ML, although there are some music creation apps that run better (for me) in SL. I have seen no need to move to Mavericks nor Yosemite, simply because I have a MacBook Pro, daughter and father running these, and frankly, a) these systems seem slower (they really lag in some cases), b) I don't see the point of making a computer appear to be a tablet/ipad and c) the consequential updates to software (even apps such as Mail, Safari and especially iTunes) keep me asking, why should I waste my time searching for the 'logic' in these new designs when it worked perfectly before? In other words, a big negative for the newer operating systems is that I find myself spending more time on Google trying to find out how to do perform, what were once, simple tasks.
So, in other words, I'm happy with my system, I am thinking about upgrading my GPU, and have purchased a new cooling system, but apart from that, all is good. However, I am still happy for someone to convince me that moving to Yosemite will double my productivity because I'm simply curious as to what upgrades fellow X58a-UD3r users have performed.
Hope you all had a great Xmas.
Be happy, free and safe.
Eco
