Tiger or Leapord on 1.5 PowerBook?

[jrachuy]

Picked up a nice 1.5 15" PowerBook and I was just curious what OS would run the best? It currently only has 512mb, but I'm sure I'll throw another 512mb stick in it. Any thoughts appreciated!

 

[bartelby]

I currently run Tiger on my 1.5Ghz PB. I have 2GB RAM in there. I'm waiting for Leopard to become more stable before switching to that.

 

[NC MacGuy]

Picked up a nice 1.5 15" PowerBook and I was just curious what OS would run the best? It currently only has 512mb, but I'm sure I'll throw another 512mb stick in it. Any thoughts appreciated!

As much as I'd like to say Leopard, I really think you should stick w. Tiger right now. Very stable for the PB. I've run into some "issues" running Leopard on older Macs - and newer ones for that matter.

 

[annk]

I have a 17" 1.5 GHz PB, and although I like the features of Leopard, I must admit it ran snappier with Tiger. I've got 2 GB of RAM. When I only had 1 GB, Leopard was a problem.

 

[killmoms]

Yeah, if you have less than 1GB on a machine that old, I'd say sticking with Tiger is probably your best bet.

 

[Pees330]

If you are only going to stay with 512 ram I would go with Tiger. If you want to run Leopard smoothly you will need to add in some ram. It's not too expensive to max it out.

 

[Brianstorm91]

I'm running 10.5.2 on a 1.33GHz/512MB PowerBook and yeah alright, 10.4's faster but come on - 10.5 is fine.

 

[rishi13]

I just sold my PB 1.5 but I would highly highly suggest maxing it out by throwing in a 1 GB stick. There is already 256 MB built in, so just replace the accessible ram slot with a 1GB stick. I was running leopard perfectly fine. Expose actions were smooth as was the general interface, etc.