A Bag of Hurt

To paraphrase Steve: SL is a bag of hurt. Not talking about the major problems. I corrected or never had them. I just find it slower and its added features are just not worth it for me. 10.5.8 is faster & more stable IMO. On to my questions: 3 months after upgrading to 10.6 (including updates) on my Early 09 mini (2.GHZ w/2 G RAM), I reverted back to 10.5 which is what it came with when new out of the box. I'm running that off a FW HD. I'm upgrading to the new 2.53 mini soon. When I get it, am I SOL running 10.5.8? Isn't this Mini the same as the Early 09 model...just a faster processor & more ram? Meaning: is it compatible with 10.5? I plan to keep 10.6 on internal drive in the hope that some day it will live up to its promise. But for now I would like to continue to boot 10.5.8 off the external w/the new model. Is that possible? Does it include the EFI that enables using 4 G ram on 10.5? And are there any other pitfalls doing this?
If not, is it too much to hope that 10.6 will run better on a Mini initially installed when new out of the box and not upgraded over a previous 10.5 system?

Star....nice set up. Why did you get the new Mini when you upgraded the Early 09 so nicely? Were you planning on a 2nd one anyway? Or is there a nice speed bump with that extra .53 GHZ on the CPU? AND I didn't know Apple techs would upgrade the HD using 3rd party gear. Do they do that in the US?
David....yes, unfortunately my boot-up time takes twice as long, accessing & navigating the net via Safari or Firefox is much slower (in Leopard its almost instantaneous), my vids (Flash, QT, Mpeg, etc) sometimes stutter, scrubbing through vids stalls or locks up, accessing some programs gives me the beachball for a second or two- even the iLife programs. And some Flash downloader programs run quirky- one blacks out the screen entirely. (A known issue claimed to be SL's fault not the program's and is corrected by using the Control-Option-Command + 8 key combo twice to cycle thru a neg back to positive screen). Not a lot of fun. After a few months of updating the OS & some programs I still had a slower OS. And this is a relatively new computer without a lot of crap on it. My iTunes & iPhoto library are on the external HD & my 320 GB internal HD has 220 GB free. Not sure if a clean install will fix all these problems but I may do it to see if it speeds things up. Though some here in the discussion groups say it doesn't. Funny thing...I stopped at my local Apple store today & played with new 2.53 Mini and it was fast loading Mail, Safari, and all the iLife programs. Instantaneous loads just like I have on 10.5 but not 10.6 . I have no idea why this OS works well for some & not others.

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