Leapord or Tiger? Less resources? Better for Pro Audio?

[skankis]

I'm picking up two laptops next week and am wondering if there will be much of a performance difference between leapord and tiger.

One Laptop will be a G4 1.33ghz with 1gb of ram. I hope for this to run the midi tracks to control lights on stage and the backing audio tracks(roughly 15 audio files running at once).

The other will be a macbook pro 2.0ghz (core duo) with 2gb of ram. This will run the live VST synthesizers(no more than 2 at a time) through my sequencer(cubase or maybe a mac alternative)

I'm thinking it would be easier to just have leapord on both machines but I may need to squeeze everything I can get out of the G4. Is their a performance difference or does one OS take more resources?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

 

[Cromulent]

In your situation I would use Tiger on the G4. It has been out for years and is completely rock solid. You will need to use Leopard on the MacBook though.

 

[pwn247]

Cromulent nailed it.

Put Tiger on your G4 (because, let's face it, it's 'aging'), and put Leopard on your MacBook. Leopard benefits a lot from more RAM, so it would make sense for the 2GB notebook to take advantage of that.

It seems as though Leopard, while idling, uses a few more resources to keep the OS up and running with all those neat bells and whistles. Tiger was designed for lower-end machines such as your G4.