To buy or not to?  Seek advice from longtime mac users...

I am a long time apple/mac user/owner (since 86!) and bought the powerbook pismo in 99, and the titanium 867. It's coming close to time on buying the new macbook pro.
But I have the feeling the mbp is more suited for those wanting to make a switch. I have no need for windows, I prefer just OS X. There is also a bunch of terminology and software incompatibility I have read about. Bundles, parallels, or something. And I would like to continue using a lot of my current applications on the mbp.
Is an upgrade from powerbook to mbp a problem for longtime mac users? Is there a handy site for some of the changes from the older powerbooks to the mbp?
Thanks!

It all depends on what software you use.
Anything running under OS 9 or Classic is no longer supported. There are ways of running OS 9 on an intel mac using virtualisation, but if you really need a Classic app then you need to look hard at that.
Nearly all applications which run on the previous macs, Power PC or PPC for short run reasonably on intel macs. The OSX on new intel macs includes a program called Rosetta which seamlessly translates the Power PC application for the intel platform. For some applications there is a performance penalty - e.g. Photoshop - occasional users will not mind, graphic professionals will mind. This will be resolved when the next version of Photoshop comes out - a universal version which has the code to run on both intel and PowerPC without needing Rosetta.
Many other programs work well under Rosetta - for example Microsft Office is fine. Some programs run a bit slower than they did on the G5s but faster than on the G4s so many people upgrading from PowerBooks are happy with Rosetta performance. As applications are upgraded to Universal code, there will be less and less use of Rosetta.
Rosettal incidentally is seamless - you don't see it at work - you start the application and Rosetta does it's thing.
As for Parallels and Boot Camp, these are ways of running Windows on the mac. If you want to run Windows within OSX you can use parallels, if you want the option at start up to start up into Windows or OS X you can use boot Camp. If you don't need Windows you can ignore both.
So - if you come back and say what your current apps are, people here can tell you how they can be expected to run. It's not as different as you might think and the chances are everything you have will work fine.
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