Leopard on my macbook, will it run as well as tiger?

i have a 1.83GHz intel core 2 duo macbook with 512 ram. can anyone tell me if upgrading to leopard when it comes out will make my mac run slower or would it even run faster?
i am most worried i don't have enough ram to really support leopard.

I would say either runs similar or will be slower compare to Tiger.
My macbook is so slow with its standard 512mb using tiger, and I almost decided to go back to eMac G4 with 2 Gb ram using 10.3.9. And with Leopard is more sophisticated and have a lot more feature (some of them are running at the background) it will use more processor and memory resources.
So Troy Enn is right on the money, and it also a good time for you to overhoul your macbook with more memory (2 x 1 GB).
Good Luck.

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Welcome to Apple Discussions!
You can by all means take some good advise from the people on this board in response to you problem.
But here is the best advise, especially since you're new to Mac.
Call Apple Care or take it back to the store and have them check it out. It is under warranty. You have 14 days from the date of purchase to return the Mac for a completely different or give it back because you do not like it. they may try to charge you a restocking fee but this should not be the case since there is an issue with you machine.
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I have a Macbook running Snow Leopard which I back up to an external drive using time machine. If I purchase a new MacBook pro and transfer backup from time maching to MacBook Pro will it also transfer Snow Leopard as its is my preferred O.S.

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Requirements for OS X 10.6 'Snow Leopard'
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP575
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
and in the UK:
http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
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http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1399
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4479
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4759
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion
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