Leopard runs like a snail and broken legs

Is this new Leopard supposed to make things faster and easier right? I have problem with this version on a BRAND NEW iMac bought last Saturday and slow. This morning it took my system 5 minutes to boot up. It happened to my older iMac g% which i thought maybe it's older iMac. It's not, it happens to my NEW iMac too.. What is going on? Sometime the system just hang during booting..i have to force and actually unplug the power cord to have it turn off. I install Photoshop Elements 4.0 and also hang and it works like snail, worse than Photoshop CS3. Can i get both my machines back to Tiger without having to completely reinstall?

Karsten,
Can we assume that the machine specs listed in your (current) profile are those of the machine in question?
If so, things are right on the edge of usability for Leopard. My wife's G4 iBook has a 1.25 GHz processor, and I would consider Leopard's performance there at the lowest end of acceptable. Drop that processor speed to 1 GHz, and I think I would go nuts.
Your machine does have at least one advantage, however. First, it will be using a faster drive, on a faster bus. That helps. Perhaps more important, its RAM can be upgraded beyond the capabilities inherent in the iBook (I think). This will be the area to concentrate your efforts.
An "Erase and Install" might help things, but you really should focus on upgrading the RAM as far as you can. 1.25 GBs of RAM is simply not enough for Leopard! While it might suffice for the OS itself, any applications that you run will be squeezed almost beyond usability, as you have found. If possible, install at least 2 GBs of RAM (probably the maximum for this machine). This will provide enough physical memory for both Leopard and the majority of applications you might run, and it will leave a bit extra for a cache of "Inactive" memory. This category of memory use will greatly speed the launching and response of applications that have already been run since the last start/restart.
Scott

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