Migration from powerbook

Hi there, in the next days I'll get my new MB-pro.
I would like to Migrate from my old Powerbook to my new MB-pro, some colleague discouraged me about it because -they say- the software (iWork, Office, Matlab etc...) doesn't run the same way on powerpc and intel based Mac. So it could happen that any time I start let me say ms Excel from the new MB it will ask me if I want to run it in "rosetta" mode...or something like this, as far as I understood.
Is there a best practice to migrate from old powerbook to MB-pro? Shall I avoid the migration?
Thanks,
F

There is a performance hit in the PPC emulation layer but remember you're running on a computer that's significantly faster than the actual hardware that the software was written for. If you want to make a direct comparison, get a copy of Office 2008 and an Intel Mac. Open word and play around. Then quit word, go to Get Info, and check the box for Run in Rosetta. You'll see that the interface is quite a bit more sluggish in the emulation layer.
The fastest computer the original post could have however is 1.67 GHz on a single core, and his new machine will likely have a dual core 2.4 GHz processor, so even though there's a performance hit with the emulation layer, he'll actually notice a performance gain, although it wouldn't be as big as it could be when using software compiled for the Intel platform.
Regards,
-Ryan

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