OS X 10.4 Tiger compatible with PBG4 1.25GHz?

Hi-
I am considering buying Mac OS X 10.4 so I can use the iPod touch on my PowerBook G4 (1.25GHZ, 512MB). Is this machine supported by OS X? Would it be wiser to upgrade to a new Mac, if performance is compromised too much? My fear is just that an updated OS X will bog down my system (I currently run 10.3.9 trouble-free and have been for the past couple of years). It will be 5 years since I bought my PB in mid-January.
Thanks!
-Daniel

As BDAqua noted, your powerbook will be just fine running Tiger, and could use more memory if you go that route.
IF you can afford a new laptop and you do a lot of graphic/photo editing, video editing, or other CPU and memory hungry tasks on a regular basis you should see a big difference if you get a new laptop (or desktop). If you do word processing, email, web surfing, etc... then an upgrade to 10.4 would be a more reasonable approach.
BD = thanks for the info on calling Apple for 10.4. I didn't realize they were still selling it.

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