Will Tiger run well on my Powerbook G4?

Hi everyone. My 12" Powerbook G4 has the 867 Mhz processor, and an additional 1GB of RAM installed, which brings the total to either 1.25 Gb or 1.5 Gb (I can't recall at the moment, and my laptop is not with me at work today). It also has the built-in Firewire, DVD-rom, and everything else. It was purchased almost 3 years ago now, and was shipped running Jaguar. Although I am currently running Jaguar at the moment, that is due to a recent wipe of my system that was previously running Panther, of which I have a full install DVD currently being shipped to me (Panther ran great prior to the wipe).
I know that this means my laptop passes Apple's stated system requirements, but I want to know if it passes system requirements in reality. If the new features in Tiger are more processor/memory intensive, I'd rather stick with Panther and continue using a smoothly running OS than upgrading and having to deal with sluggishness. However, if Tiger would perform well on my current system, I'd prefer to run the latest version of everything.
So, any insight will be greatly appreciated! Thank you all.
Powerbook G4 12" 867 Mhz   Mac OS X (10.2.x)   1.25/1.5Gb(?) RAM, OS v10.2.8

I have Tiger running fine on a G3 400MHz Pismo laptop with 384MB RAM.
Yours will run excellent on Tiger. You won't notice any operational/speed differences between Panther & Tiger.
 Cheers, Tom

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