Leopard on Powerbook 1.67 DLHR?

I have a Powerbook G4 1.67 (DDR2, dual-layer DVDRW + high res screen model - very last one before the MBP) with 2 GB of ram.

I'm wondering how it will take to Leopard? Will I notice it running much more sluggishly? It does have a nice video, ATI 9700 with 128 MB (which plays unreal tournament 2003 nicely @ 1440 x 960) so it should be able to handle all the visual stuff I would think?

Thoughts? Anyone else running Leopard on a late-model Powerbook?

 

I heard it ran really slow but you can give it a shot.

 

I think fabarati has the same Powerbook as you, and he (and others) have said the Menu Bar is not transparent in Leopard on those Powerbooks, despite it having a graphics card.

I don't think you'll have any problem. A lot of people say Leopard runs fine on the higher-end Powerbook G4s.

 

I have a friend who has a Powerbook G4 and it runs fine I guess. The graphics did get a little jerky at times like the coverflow when the folder had a lot of pictures and video.

 

Thanks for the feedback. I don't mind spending the $120 to buy Leopard but I *do* mind spending $120 for something that performs significantly worse than what I have now. Would be nice if there was some way to "try before you buy".

My Powerbook is the very highest-end one, plus it's fully maxed out with 2 GB memory and 160 GB internal hard drive. I'd be kind of surprised if it ran Leopard really poorly, but then again, I feel like Leopard is likely optimized better for the intel models than it is for PPC.

 

Leopard is not vista! LOL

 

it runs just as well as Tiger runs on a PB in my experience, I have seen it run on many levels of powerbook and even an emac perfectly well.

 

I have it on a PB g4 1.5 12". it runs alright, but freezes occasionally--I actually think the release was a bit premature because it seems slow also on intel with x1600.

 

Well, I finally "upgraded" to Leopard this morning. It's "fine" I guess but some of the GUI elements are noticeably slower than with Tiger. Moving the mouse around on the menu bar (I have the magnification enabled) feels more jerky than before. Also, using the 2-finger scroll on web pages in Firefox also feels more jerky.

Oh well. Hoping those Montevina MBP's are available soon...

 

are you on 10.5.4?

i installed leopard on a 12" powerbook 1ghz with a geforce fx 5200 or something like that... it ran fine.