Powerbook and leopard

Has anyone upgraded to leopard on a powerbook? Mine is a 1.5GHz, 15 inch with 2 gig of RAM and I'm considering making the change. Just curious to know how leopard runs compared to tiger.
Many thanks
Darryn

I just updated my PoweBook G4, from Panther (It's my first update since I got my PowerBook in March of 05). I'm impressed, it runs faster than I thought it would. I originally had only 1G of memory, but if I had a lot of windows open, I was getting tight on memory. I also noticed that if the hard drive was being accessed a lot (Like during initial log in), the system couldn't keep up with the mouse (Which caused some problems). I have just upgraded my PowerBook to 2G of memory, and don't seem to have this problem any more.
From Panther, this is worthwhile upgrade. Everything works, even coverflow and quick look. Dashboard is another cool feature of Leopard. The only real difference in my PowerBook is that boot time is about twice as long, and the battery doesn't seem to last as long (but this could be that my battery is starting to die - I've had it since the Apple battery replacement campaign in Sept. 06).
Otherwise on a MacBook Leopard may run faster, but unless you spent a lot of time on an MacBook, running Leopard on a PowerBook seems fine (After the initial boot up).
FYI, I did have an initial problem with the Firewall and Airport. When the DHCP lease was up, it wouldn't be renewed via Airport when the firewall was active. The result being loss of internet connectivity. Another indication of this problem is that I could never initially connect to the internet everyday - because I've got an Airport network and my PowerBook needed a new DHCP lease. If I connected via an Ethernet cable, then renewing the DHCP lease with the Firewall wasn't an issue. From talking to Apple the solution was to re-install the Leopard, using the Archive option. This did the trick, and I don't have any more problems with the firewall.
Hope this helps.

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Many thanks and sorry for the bad pun!

You should.
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The dvd player alone is worth it. It does a much better job at upscaling. It even looks good on my HDTV now.
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I just realized that a Powerbook is a PPC not Intel, which means disregard my earlier post, you don't want to use Migration Assistant to transfer from a PPC to an Intel machine. Here is instructions on how to do that from Kappy and a brody. Keep in mind this is for Tiger not Leopard and there might be updates on this in the future:
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Classic Environment, and subsequently any Mac OS 9 or earlier applications
Screensavers written for the PowerPC
System Preference add-ons
All Unsanity Haxies
Browser and other plug-ins
Contextual Menu Items
Applications which specifically require the PowerPC G5
Kernel extensions
Java applications with JNI (PowerPC) libraries
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/Home /Library/Safari (copy the whole folder)
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/Home/Library/Application Support/WebFoundation/HTTPCookies.plist
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Written by Kappy with additional contributions from a brody.
Edited on: Thu Feb 08, 02007
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Well, Ding Dang y'all... it appears the battery was the culprit. I received my replacement battery from Apple and followed the same steps and everything seems to be working fine.
It sure was strange that the battery started this problem immediately after Leopard was installed... I don't know what to say about that, unless BatteryUpdater v1.3 started the chain of events.
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- Then, swapped out battery to new battery
- Tested unit, seems to be okay now, no shutdown issues, battery runtime seems normal
Thanks to all that had advice and suggestions. It was enough to get me to try it again. Now, I have two more machines to upgrade, since these are production machines, I'll probably wait awhile. But, having this is a real treat.
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