Overall however, after running YASU, I would seriously consider a RAM upgrade as a matter of near-necessity.Īssuming no PPC software in active use, a 1.83 GHz mini with 1Gb RAM ought to run Leopard reasonably well, and though occasional crashes are always a possibility, they are not in any sense typical.ĭid your mini come with Leopard installed, or did it have Tiger and you subsequently updated? If the latter, did you perform a default 'upgrade' install of Leopard or a complete erase and install. While you have stripped PPC binaries, you may find PPC processes running as a result of widgets, drivers, utilities for peripherals, etc.

I would also check Activity Monitor to make sure all running processes are Intel, and none are Power PC. Upgrading to 2Gb (or even maxing out to 4Gb, of which 3.3 is usable by Core 2 Duo minis) would be a good idea. Since you did an erase and install at initial use in order to put Leopard on the system, I don't think there would be anything to gain from performing another one at this time, unless running Disk Utility were to indicate a problem with the hard drive itself - in which case you would likely be suffering a significantly higher level of problems and system crashes.ĭepending on which apps are running, 4 or 5 could be a rather high memory load, or relatively light! I would say, however, that 1Gb RAM is the realistic minimum for Leopard on an Intel-based Mac, so even with no PPC processes running, your system is not likely to be performing at its best with that level of RAM.

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