Installing Leopard on an older computer,

I have a eMac, it's specs are 1.25ghz, and has 1GB of RAM. Since using Leopard on my iMac, I love it, and was wondering if it'd run fine on my eMac, I know it meets the requirements, but was wondering if anyone has done so and if it runs fine, or if it runs slow. The computer is mainly going to be for my kids now, and I like how it's more secure, but if it slows down the computer too much I'd just stay with Panther. Any advice?

It should work and probably better and faster.
I would suggest a clone backup of your existing OS first, just in case you decide to go back.
CarbonCopy works fine and it's free.
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paulae wrote:
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bazzoonboy wrote:
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