It has an “All My Files” folder that dumped some 1,200 files into one giant folder even those files reside in many different folders across the hard drive. The next thing I noticed is that the Finder dumped all of my customizations. Snow Leopard icons are far more recognizable, and menu text is bigger and stands out more boldly. Interface elements in Snow Leopard are much more prominent. If you can do so, put El Capitan directly next to a machine running Snow Leopard and the Snow Leopard machine is much easier to see and work with. You have to remember I’m coming directly from Snow Leopard to El Capitan, and the overall look and feel of the Snow Leopard interface is much more appealing and practical. The menu text isn’t big or bold enough to stand out, and the aggressive use of white and wimpy light-colored pastels ruins the usability that extra contrast affords. The first thing I found objectionable is the overall look and feel of the new design. It wasn’t until I sat down in front of the machine afterwards that I realized saying yes to the El Capitan upgrade was a mistake. The upgrade process itself seemed to go smoothly enough. So, I ended up saying yes to the El Capitan upgrade. I resisted at first, but from the Apple podcasts I listen to the chatter is that things are slowly improving as Apple rolls out bug fixes.
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Lately a nag screen kept popping up wanting me to update it to OS/X El Capitan.
I’ve deliberately kept the machine running Snow Leopard over the years even though several new versions of OS/X have come and gone.
Additionally have it set up with a Neat desktop document scanner. The machine is reasonably fast and is in a handy location.
I swapped out the hard drive for a 256 gigabyte SSD and bumped the RAM up to 8 gigabytes. I have a mid-2010 Mac Mini set up in my living room that I use for occasional browsing and email.