Power pc  programs of mac pro

hey i am thinking of selling my imac g5 coz i want to be able to have that a builtly to expand and have dual monitors and better graphics cards but i am just wondering i haveloads of power pc programs will they comvert them selfs and run normaly or will i have to buy everything again?
thanks for reading
rob

The vast majority of PowerPC applications will work without issue on an Intel Mac. The difference that most encounter is lesser performance. For instance, Photoshop CS2 will perform better on a quad-core PowerMac G5 than a quad-core Mac Pro. This will all change when these applications are released as Universal Binaries.
You are NOT required to upgrade your applications before you are ready to. Unless of course they don't work although these are very few and far between.

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