Quandary about Powerbook upgrade

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Hi all,

I'm looking for some thoughts on this - I currently have a 12" G4 Powerbook with Tiger, thats around about 2.5 years old now. It serves me really well, and its very well used - General usage is mail, im, browsing, itunes, cd+dvd burning and a little bit of photo stuff. The battery is pretty much buggered now, and only lasts about 45 mins. I'm very tempted to fork out on a new macbook now that leopard is out, but is it really worth it for what I do? I mean I could just upgrade to Leopard and replace my battery - How much would I honestly be missing out on? Are there any features in Leopard that I wouldn't be able to use? The biggest selling point of a new Macbook is Parallels, but I'm not even sure I would use that very much..

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Hmm.. Looks like I would do well out of it - How is the support for old PowerPC apps on the Intel systems now? When the switch first happened a friend bought a MacBook Pro to replace his iMac and he commented that things like Photoshop CS2 ran quite slowly - Now not wanting to fork out for a new copy of PS is this the case or have things improved since then?
 
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