Leopard on older Laptop Macs

Would anyone recommend installing Leopard (with Tiger archived for older applications) on an older laptop computer or would this result in a slower running computer? Thanks for any ideas

How old? As long as it meets the system requirements, 10.5 may even run faster than 10.4. The system does take a bit more RAM than 10.4. AFA, archiving for use of older apps, it depends how old... 10.5 will not run Classic but it will run many older apps. I'm running apps like MS Office X, Acrobat Pro 6 and Toast 6 on 10.5.
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Greetings: I have just acquired an older mini mac (2006 1.66 ghz core 2 duo) Anyway, it had Tiger 10.4 on it and the Bluetooth worked. I upgraded to Snow Leopard and everything works fine - except Bluetooth. The Bluetooth icon isn't there. Any ideas?

Greetings:
I have just acquired an older mini mac (2006 1.66 ghz core 2 duo) Anyway, it had Tiger 10.4 on it and the Bluetooth worked for the wireless Apple keyboard and mouse. I upgraded to Snow Leopard and everything works fine - everything except Bluetooth.
The Bluetooth icon does not exist in the System Preferenc screen.
I tried to download Bluetooth from Apple site but the message I got told me that I didn't need it.
Under Finder, Utilities, I found Bluetooth File Exchange but the message I got was that I had to connect a Bluetooth device to my computer.
I have to admit that I have no idea what's going on here. I am hoping to avert the need to try another complete re-install of Snow Leopard.
Any ideas?
Thanks
javaminit

Puzzled is a polite word for it.
Thanks Barry - I found the file and trie to send it to trash. The response: (This item cannot be trashed as it it owned by the system).
After dancing around with PRAM and SMC and turning on while holding the power-cntrl-option-shift and heavens knows what else, I now have the Bluetooth symbol on the top of the menu bar but it is ghoseted and has a squiggly line through it. This, I didn't have before so I read this as some progress. It notes that "Bluetooth is not available">
However, the Bluetooth icon is still missing from the System Preferences window - you know, between "network" and "sharing".
You note that you reckon the issue is not software based and you may be correct. The reason that I wonder about that though, is that before I installed Snow Leopard, the keyboard and mouse both paired with the box under the Tiger 10.4. That leads me to conclude that hardware is functional and that there is some screwy little bit of software that is not cooperating.
If I could delete Bluetooth from the system and re-install a fresh version, that might help. Or, is there a way I can use the Snow Leopard install disc and only load in Bluetooth?
I'm stumped.
Thanks for your time
/Bill C.

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It used to be easy to do this with earlier versions of OS X. Is it still possible to do this? If so, can you tell me how?
Thanks.

I'll assume you mean PowerBook G4; as a PowerBook G5 was never produced.
1) Put the DVD in your MacBook Pro.
2) Boot the MacBook Pro while holding down T.
3) Hook the MacBook Pro and the PB together with a FireWire cable.
4) Boot up the PB while holding down the Option key.
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To expand a bit on Niel's answer, you cannot instal an OS on any machine that is older than the machine itself. If your machine comes with Leopard, you can't put Tiger on it, and the Leopard install discs that come with your new MacBook are machine specific and won't work with your old machine.

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I'm a registered Apple Select Developer and I'm trying to install Leopard Server on a Mac mini I just picked up the other day. Is there a way to do this using the image or do I have to burn a DVD in order to do the install? The image is over 5GB's so I'd need to get a dual layer disk.

Is this just for a test?
If so you can create 3 partitions, one a bootable volume the second partition a place to restore the Leopard image and the third partition to install the new software you restored on the second partition. You do loose two small volumes temporarily, but you can make them relatively small since these are only used for installation purposes. The details can be found on the developer site under " leopardclient_9a377a_seednote.rtf".
I've done this on older machines with no CD players installed.
-Den

Macbook or older laptop.....

This may seem like a no brainer, but consider my dilemna....
I need a laptop to:
a) take with me on the road and while Im traveling
b) serve as a mobile extension of my studio, when artists cant make it to mine
c) eventually serve as a dedicated show computer running Serrato or final scratch
I primarily run Logic Express and find myself using reason, live, etc less and less, but still might need one of those programs while im mobile
Should I buy a new macbook and pay the crossgrade fee for logic, as well as restrict myself to universal apps, and roll the dice on their first version of it?
Or should I just try to find an older powerbook or even ibook, pay way less for it, run all of my software with no hassle, but risk not having applecare for it
Option C is not as immediatley important
I would also want to be able to seamlessly transfer files between my dektop at my studio and my laptop.....this is paramount
I dont care about burning dvd's or games, graphics, and running windows....
All I care about is making music easily, moving songs back and forth between both computers, and using itunes, iweb (to keep my site updated) and logic while on the road
Again, I may have to use live or reason once and awhile
destop with laptop Mac OS X (10.4.7) I want to have a mobile extension of my desktop

Welcome to apple forum,
From the way you describe it, look like you are a professional on that field.
So I suggest go with MacBook, it will have longer life span and more and more software are going universal (i know some are free upgrade and some aren't), but you'll getting back what you paid for with more productivity and more compatibility with newer plug-ins years to come.
And since Logic is also from apple, I believe they designed it with apple user in mind and it is not the first Logic, just a newer version that can runs universal. If it was the first logic like logic 1.0, then you might consider to wait, but it was there a quite some time.
And I think MacBook is the cheapest solution up to date compare to MAcBookPro.
Good Luck.

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it ist possivle to downgrade/ install Snow Leopard on the current Mac Book Pros that are now sold on the apple store?
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Thanks,
Anna

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Stefan

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OSX Leopard in the new Mac Mini

Hello, I need a support for a question.
I can install mac osx leopard in the new Mac Mini.
My mac is the last versión of Mac Mini Server with OSX LION Server.
How I can install Mac Osx Leopard, the compatibilities with OSX LION are very bad with my programs.
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Hola.
My mac mini is the version 5.3 of mid of the 2011.
Music hardware is working me a little better now, I think it has strengthened the stability and gives no error messages.
I afraid that I have become later unstable again .
But now it works perfectly.
The new mac mini 5.x never can works with Leopard?
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Regards from barcelona.

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