Does it pay to upgrade to Leopard?

Hi: I have a 1.5 GHz, Mac Mini core solo; upgraded to 2 Gigs of Ram, and I currently run OS 10.4.11 with Tiger.
My mini now runs fine, and I was wondering if it would be better for me to upgrade to Leopard (with all the new security updates), or stay with Tiger for at least another year before any bugs are worked out of the newest Leopard? I'd very much appreciate your advice. Thanks, Jerry.

As a user who migrated to Leopard early on in most of my systems, I'd say that by and large if there is nothing offered in 10.5 that you feel you need or that would be advantageous to you, there is really no reason to upgrade from Tiger. There are no security benefits of Leopard that either are not already in Tiger, or which would not be added to it by updates Apple release, and no inherent performance benefits of Leopard which make it a compelling choice.
In itself, Tiger is a solid, reliable and powerful OS which has had plenty of time to have had the bugs ironed out.
There are features in Leopard you might find compelling. Spaces or Time Machine for example. If these sort of extras figure in your plans, then it makes sense to upgrade, and thus take advantage of them, without delay. Otherwise in your situation I'd stick where you are.

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