Using leopard on 768mb

I have an ibook g4 with 1.2 powerpc g4
with 768 mb
can i run leopard and how fast would it be

An upgrade of the RAM so it would be 1.2GB total is recommended. The base RAM is soldered on the board, plus there must be a 512MB in the slot under the keyboard now, so that would have to come out. You may have to reset the PRAM after swapping out RAM chips.
Be sure to get the correct design/type of chip.
A PC-2100 DDR266 200-pin SO-DIMM is probably the correct one, while a later PC 2700 DDR333 would fit if available it would only run at the PC-2100 specification.
The other thing which will affect performance is the size (capacity) of the drive and remaining unused or free space on the hard disk drive; Mac OS X utilizes hard drive free space as swap file virtual memory and so this is essential because temporary files can be slow to read/write if there isn't enough free HDD space for this, or if there isn't enough installed chip RAM.
Also, be sure to check out any remaining browsers that work well with PPC Macs. iCab is OK, TenFourFox works OK and now supports some youtube etc video directly, and other odd ones still exist but are not seeing updates now. Most of those are Mozilla-derived custom builds. Flash support is residual, as no new plugins exist; the last plugin for flash is part of an older archive one has to look hard for at the Abode site.
PS: if you can, make a backup bootable clone of your Tiger 10.4.11 system; then you can run the iBook from there if you need to use OS 9 or Classic apps; or have any software that won't transition to Leopard 10.5.8. Also, you should probably wipe the hard disk drive and start over rather than update Leopard over Tiger. There had been reported issues from a direct update but few happened with a full new install. I'd used a disk utility to 'zero the drive' on my macs to then reformat the HDD to be rid of any old files, and defragment the drive ahead of Leopard installations.
Good luck & happy computing!

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Joseph Mctamany wrote:
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Message was edited by: Barbatto - Fixed Subject Line

Janet Taylor wrote:
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http://www.barbatto.com/misc/comparison.jpg
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