Leopard For My G4?

I have a MDD G4 running Tiger and am considering going to Leopard. I have the minimum requirement 867DP.I have 2 hard drives...the main is 60gig with Tiger and the other is a self-installed Seagate 120 gig partitioned into 2, one for data and the other has Panther as a back-up OS. Does a Leopard upgrade make any sense? Would it run slower than Tiger. Thanks for any input, guys!
JT

Leopard does require more computing resources than Tiger.
No Classic in Leopard, if that makes a difference to you.
It's a good idea to load RAM to the fullest to run Leopard.
P.S. Please avoid [double posting questions|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1939463&tstart=0]. People go to some effort to answer questions and get discouraged if there is a lot of duplication of effort on some parallel topic.
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