As long as Apple's iLife suite and OS X applications are native, customers won't mind running some of their third-party, nonnative apps within Rosetta. I'll be back soon with more about the road to MacWorld.

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De Agonia is a computer consultant and technologist who has been using Macintosh computers for more than a decade and working on them professionally since 1996. His tech support background includes tenures at Computerworld, colleges, the biopharmaceutical industry, the graphics industry and Apple. Currently, he is working as an independent consultant at MacTek while also working as an IT staffer with a major publishing firm.