Tiger and Snow Leopard

Dear All
I dont know much about these things but I was told that if I upgrade to Snow Leopard there will be a slow down in operations unless my system (Tiger) has 64bit... Is this true because I dont want to upgrade unnecessarily and have problems.
thank you
veedeekay

I don't know about slow down. Check:
http://www.macworld.com/article/142379/2009/08/snowleopard_64bit.html
http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/
http://macperformanceguide.com/SnowLeopard-64bit.html
From my reading of it, unless you have a suite of brand new applications you probably will be running things in 32 bit mode anyway. I think the thing about SL is it offers the potential for faster running, but defaults to the same mode you're using now since most of your applications are using that mode. Bottom line, it wouldn't be slower, but it might not be faster.
You'd be better off getting advice on this by posting on the Snow Leopard forum since they are the ones who are running it (unlike me who still uses a 5 year old OS on an 8 year old computer and just reads about 64 bit things).

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