Will installing leopard slowdown my iMac?

[Floris1994]

I have an iMac g5 1.8GHz 2nd Gen. It is running tiger and seems to be running fast and I am thinking about upgrading to leopard but I like my mac to be fast... Will leopard slow me down, if so how much...

 

[bozz2006]

Leopard should run fine. Why do you want to upgrade? I don't think you should install leopard just for the sake of having the newer OS. More RAM might be in order. If you upgrade the OS and it does slow your system down, upgrading the RAM to 2 GB should take care of it.

 

[PurrBall]

Leopard will definitely slow you down, but not unbearably.

 

[Apocrathia]

you'll definitely want 2gb if your going to run leopard, especially using a PPC system.

 

[Floris1994]

Leopard should run fine. Why do you want to upgrade? I don't think you should install leopard just for the sake of having the newer OS. More RAM might be in order. If you upgrade the OS and it does slow your system down, upgrading the RAM to 2 GB should take care of it.

Thanks I am ordering 2GB anyways because I am doing a science fair project on performance with more RAM so I think I will probably upgrade to leopard...