Recently Upgraded to leopard on 1.5ghz powerbook 1.5gb ram

hi
i upgraded to leopard a couple of months ago which caused problems when i did archive and install. there were some bugs with Mail that would not quit. so them i did a clean install and now slowly adding the software needed.
everything seems to run ok except a speed issue. viewing videos have become quite slow even low quality videos on you tube. watching videos on a file offline is also very slow. i have also added more ram to 1.5gb as before it was 756mb.
has anyone gone backward to Tiger after upgrading to leopard because of having an old machine? sometimes i am tempted, but i have made backups with Time Machine already and file transfering has become a chore with large film files!
what can i do to improve the performance of this machine? should i downgrade?
i like some of the smaller new features of leopard, and it would be a shame to lose that as already it hase been useful in my work.
what should i do?
su

Hi,
How much free disk space is there?
To check how much free space is available on your startup disk:
1. In Finder™, select your startup disk's icon. For most users, this is Macintosh HD.
2. Press the Command-I keyboard combination.
3. The Get Info window for your startup disk will open. In the General pane, the Capacity, Available (free space), and space Used on your startup disk will be displayed there.
Go here and make sure your PBook specs meet the minimum requirements to run Leopard.
And keep in mind, Leopard requiress 9GB of free disk space.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/techspecs/
Carolyn

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