IBook G4: is it worth the Leopard upgrade?

I have the same laptop with 1GB ram and Leopard screwed it. I had to reinstall 10.4.

I have an iMac G4 800MHz with 1GB of RAM on board.

With Leopard, it now runs most tasks faster than Tiger did.

The Time Machine® user interface is a kinda draggy but that’s about it (if I had to guess, that’s what I’d point to as the main computational hog—seeing as I hardly go in there, it’s a non-issue for me—Time Machine runs its backups in the background unobtrusively).

I’m very pleased with the upgrade and would definitely attempt it again on another Mac, if I had one.

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< < sits back and waits for the former Apple shop guys to come in and blast away.

@playthebanjo: can you be more specific than it “screwed it”? :) Did it just slow it down a lot or what? What type of computing did you do the most often (was it just email and web browsing, or was it larger tasks such as using BitTorrent, video encoding, GarageBand, etc.)? Thanks

My friend who works for mac said, confidentially, if you buy one with leapord intalled, it’s amazing, if you upgrade, it’s a headache. Maybe they are wrong, but that’s what they said, so that’s what I have for you…

I found that it was unable to upgrade IF YOU CAN UPGRADE I WELL RECOMMEND IT

Sorry. For me the upgrade made all tasks slower with LOTS of spinning beachballs. They happened with word and firefox, they happened with cs3 so often that I could not get work done (mostly illustrator bit some photoshop)

Is there some sort of “return policy” or warranty if it does indeed slow down my computer?

that would be doubtful. Your computer meets the minimum requirements. If you have an external drive to back all your junk up first it would make your reinstall easier. I had to reformat my drive to get it to accept the old os. But sounds like my experience is in the minority.

I have your exact machine but with 1 gig of RAM. Leopard runs much faster than Tiger on my machine, all the effects work, and spotlight is usable.