Quote Originally Posted by SourceChild View Post
I got lucky, bought a machine at the end of December. It came with Tiger and they gave me a Leopard upgrade disk. I asked why, they said "some people still like Tiger." I asked a support person I know at Apple, he said "I am getting tired of people whining about Leopard's performance." Apparently he's gotten nothing but complaints from power users since Leo's inception.

I created a Dual boot but I gotta tell ya, I am happy I still have Tiger install disks.
leopard has really poor performance on the machines i upgraded to test-

Update - This is mostly fixed by 10.5.2
lets put it like this- right now - my 8 core Intel in 10.5.1 is about the same as my dual g5 in 10.4.11 - in terms of layers of playback in catalyst.