[Voorburg]

Yesterday I did a clean reinstall of OS X (version 10.3.7) and Tiger to my PowerBook (1.5 ghz Power PC laptop with 1.25 gb of memory). After the reinstall I discovered that the laptop was performing very well.

I have the Leopard Family Pack for the other Macs that I own. After checking Apple's website, I learned that my PowerBook surpasses Apple's minimum requirements for Leopard so I went ahead and installed the software onto the machine.

What I've discovered tonight is that after doing some basic web browsing (no video watching & no other software programs running), the PowerBook's fan started to run after a short time and still hasn't shut off after 45+ minutes. The battery seems to be wasting away pretty fast too.

Do you think Leopard is putting too much strain on my 1.5 ghz Power PC G4 chip ? I was "on the fence" as to whether I should install Leopard on this machine and now I'm thinking I made a mistake. To get rid of Leopard from my machine, do I have to go back and do the clean reinstall of OS X (version 10.3.7) and Tiger ?

Thanks a lot.

[moose_n_squirrel]

My friend and I both run Leopard on 1.25GHz PowerBook G4s and never looked back. How Flash-heavy were the web sites you were visiting? Flash is a G4 killer right now. Animated GIFs also spike my CPU meter, even on an Intel. For general use, Leopard's fine on these machines.