What is the OPTIMAL version of the OS for a 2010 Mac mini?

Searching for expert opinions on which is the optimal (not necessarily the latest) version of OS X to run on a 2.4GHz Mac mini 4,1 2010 model, built in Feb of 2011?  It's currently on Snow Leopard 10.6.8.  This is my wife's machine.
Additionaly, if it happens to be 10.7.5, are there any considerations when attaching an external FW800 2-GB hard drive regarding partitioning the drive?
Thanks in advance.

Ramón G Castañeda wrote:
Thanks for this information!
You are welcome!
I assume you are satisfied that the worst bugs in ML have been fixed.
Yes, Mountain Lion runs as well as Snow Leopard.
We're upgrading my wife's Mac mini to 4 GB and hope that will be fine for her, as she's not a Photoshop user, does not do video or play games.  I hope the ML OS is not such a resource hog that it requires the *8GB you have.
Mountain Lion and Safari are both pretty big RAM hogs and will pretty much use the better part of 4GB. If she plans on running Mail, iTunes, iPhoto, etc. at the same time, then your going to want to fix her up with 8GB.
For Example: besides the basic Mountain Lion processes, Safari and iTunes I'm using a little over 4GB.
However if I open other App's like iPhoto, OpenOffice, Google Earth for example's, I can easily use 6GB+

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