To update or Not To update: MBP 3.1 Late-2007

Ok all;
I've read about the Mail issues and the ethernet port issues. I am about to frinally upgrade to Windows 7 Pro on my bootcamp but I wondered if I should go ahead and update to 10.9. I do use Mail a lot and have a gmail address linked to it. Also, I have found that XP is suddenly performing VERY poorly, which is why I am trying to upgrade. Any news on this? Any and all advice is welcome
Here are my specs:

I suspect that Mavericks would not perform all that well on your 7 year old Mac, unless you have a good amount of RAM in it and maybe upgrade the hard drive to a SSD.
Also it doesn't make much sense to me that Windows would work any better on your mac with OSX upgraded; you're still just rebooting into the windows partition.
If your MBP is the 13 inch, it won't run Mavericks: OS X Mavericks: System Requirements

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Thanks in advance for the help.
-Q
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Thanks for the link, a brody, I'll run the Apple Hardware Test momentarily.
The original symptoms were screen artifacts (in the form of blue vertical bars in all black areas), followed immediately by an all screen freeze (with a mouse I could move but not use), and a freakishly hot case (waaay hotter than normal in Mac OS X).
Originally thinking it was a GPU problem (either a driver from the recent updates, or a hardware failure) I went around and around trying to find a solution.
I noticed my MBP worked fine for about 30 minutes then the artifacts and system crash returned. The only fix is to leave it off for a while then turn it on. I have been able to keep it running by monitoring system temp and keeping it below 90C.
Thus I conclude my fans aren't cutting it, and the fan controller reports fan speed based off what speed the fans are being told to run at, not actual rpms.
I'll run AHT and report my findings.
Thanks
-Q

I have a MBP 15" from late 2007, right before the unibody. The battery has just entered "Replace Battery Now" state after several months in "Replace Battery Soon". Where can I purchase a replacement battery?

Everything on Amazon gets terrible reviews, and I'll bet they are in the same state already. The machine still runs great, so I don't need to replace it for what I need. Appreciate any direction on this.

shanem85 wrote:
Appreciate the snark, but please show me the product page where Apple is selling 5+ yr old products...
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It sure looks like something went wrong in the update process. I checked for similar problems and found a mention of ApplicationEnhancer.bundle being a source of issues, but that doesn't exist on my disk at all, so that isn't the issue.
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I maintain up to date my system, yet I have from time to time when I take RAW picture issues in iPhoto not reading them. Today, looking for another issue I came across this update and I was hopping it would resolve my issues with the RAW photos from my Pentax K-30.
The error:
Installer quit unexpectedly.
Click Reopen to open the app again. Click Report to see more detail information and send to Apple.
Backtrace not available
Unknown thread crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000055 ebx: 0x00000000 ecx: 0x00000000 edx: 0x00000000
edi: 0x00000000 esi: 0x00000000 ebp: 0x00000000 esp: 0x00000000
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010203 eip: 0x8fe01030 cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000000
cr2: 0xfffffffc
Binary images description not available...
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Honestly saying, the problem I had already a week, I tried to solve it on their own, but all my attempts were unsuccessful, I am sure that this problem is not related to what some of my actions, cause I never made any manipulations with phone.
I really appreciate the attention rendered by the support services, I just need that everything works fine.
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I received today a update notice for App Catalog, I saw that HP Palm updated App Catalog, I updated my App Catalog, check again, but still nothing changed, same problem "The action could not be completed. Try again later" with yellow exclamation mark.
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