Using programs on Macbook

Hello,
I'm a (soon to be)Mac user, and very excited about it.
Some things worry me however. I'm looking into buying a 1099$ Macbook + expansion to 1gig ram. For me this is a heavy price to pay... there is no way I can go for the Pro model. However I would still LOVE to run Aperture on it... is that possible?
Other than Aperture, I have another question. What is the deal with the following programs (newest editions naturally)
- Photoshop
- Flash
- Aperture (again ^_^)
Do they run on the macbook? and most importantly, do they run well? I heard something about "Roesetta" being used to open them, but I have NO idea what all of that is about.
Thanks in advance,
- Seb

I believe the only app you listed that is intel native at this time is Aperture. According to what i've read it does run on the Macbook but Apple doesn't support it on that Mac. Photoshop will run on the macbook but since it's not intel native now it won't be blazing fast. On my iMac Duo Core photoshop runs fine for me but I'm a light PS user. If you depend of photoshop ALOT then it probably won't be fast enough. Not sure about Flash but i think that also runs under emulation. Whatever you decide make sure you have alot of ram. 1gig is really the minimum when using Pro apps especially in emulation.
lenn

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