Windows users, frustrated with patches for patches that patch patches, service packs that break their programs, rampant virus and worm attacks, spyware and adware polluting their PCs, the counterintuitive Windows user interface, waiting forever for the stripped-down ‘Longhorn,’ and more, are now looking to upgrade to new Apple Macintosh personal computers running the latest version of the world’s most advanced operating system, Mac OS X.
If you’re thinking about upgrading to Mac or just want to add a Mac for now and let the two machines coexist while you get your bearings, you’ll want to be sure that you can bring all your files and information with you to your new Mac. Moving bits around can be a tedious process, but aren’t computers supposed to automate things so you don
Question: what about all my viruses and worms and spy software? do i get to keep them?
Answer: NO. They don’t work here no more.
Good idea, but too expensive and restrictive (only one PC).
nice 1 dull
It’s pretty sad. Not only do you have to spend extra money to keep your wintel machine working, but you have to spend extra money to stop using it, too.
ABQ Peter, Money spent to stop using your wintel machine is probably some of the best money spent you will ever have.
People with multiple machines usually have a network, which makes it easy to copy files back and forth. Thus Move2Mac is a good option for single users.
Hell Apple should just buy it and bundle it with Tiger.
Why not just connect the two systems and transfer the data over an ethernet cable instead? That’s what I did and it’s cheaper than blowing $50 on a piece of software you’ll only use once…
I agree, pretty pointless, but for a lot of people, having a program do this incredibly easy task for you is well, easier.
However, I would like to see a backup/synchronization program that would allow you to freely move between mac/win/linux and use any compatible files at will.
Dave, this is aimed at just the sort of people we expect to be buying a new iMac; people who aren’t tech-savvy enough to be able to safely run a Wintel system without getting it f**ked by viruses etc. So they’re not savvy enough to work out how to set up their Wintel box to transfer over ethernet either. And their lousy cheap and nasty Dull doesn’t have ethernet built in anyway.
Precisely! That is the entire point to help those who don’t know how to set up such simple network things. (How they survived in a Windows world to begin with is a wonder to itself.)
I switched from a Windows PC to a Powerbook recently, and I found that the major issue was transferring the contents of my Outlook PST file, containing all my contacts, emails and calendar appointments. After a lot of convoluted solutions, I stumbled on [url=http://www.littlemachines.com’s]http://www.littlemachines.com’s[/url] Outlook2Mac. It did an amazingly good job, and at only $10 is invaluable. I just don’t know why it hasn’t generated a greater buzz around it. I wish that it had been hyped more, so I didn’t have to go through so much hassle before I found it…
Of course, that link should just read [url=http://www.littlemachines.com]http://www.littlemachines.com[/url] …
Why do you have to spend extra money to secure your windows machine? You don’t. In fact the best spyware and anti virus tools are free. Please take the time to learn a little about the topic before you post.
“….Why do you have to spend extra money to secure your windows machine?….”
A better question should be…. “Why should you have to worry about your computer’s security…or lack thereof …. in the first place?”
Answer…. You dont….if youre smart enough to be using a Mac
I think it would be nice if software developers shipped dual platform versions of their software. This would make things a bit easier for those people with legitimate copies of software to crossover to the Macintosh. As it stands, they have to re-licence or crossgrade or upgrade much of the software at great expense.
This is surely one of the biggest obstacles in moving to Macs faced by businesses today.
Or maybe they could make a downloadable version for people with original PC disks/licences? Or mail original PC stuff in or *something*…. as it stands it’s probably too expensive to move.
to educated user:
I DL’ed Virtual PC 6 with DOS and got WinXP from my roommate….
Worked fine.. er.. for the first day…
My experience with WIndows on MY Mac was brief… very brief.. And then.. all of a sudden, I started up WinXP.. when it finally started up it was shutting itself down.. after a couple attempts I realized I had at Windows virus.. The OS was unusable.
What did I miss out on…?
Er.. let me get back to you on that one.. I merely installed it for the wow, cool I can run Windows on this too… then realized how much work it was downloading Windows Updates and fussing with the frustrating menus.. never really knowing when an action was completed.. or if I needed to restart the (virtual) machine…
Thank god.. all I had to do was drag the whole thing into the Trash..
And hadn’t bought a.. Dell.. for example
The only two things I needed to move was MyDocuments and my mail. .Macs IMAP email made moving the mail easy enough and file sharing moved the docs. So help me understand why I need this software?
Shoot the PC, dump it in the garbage and just make believe you never visited the dark side.
Just pretend Microsoft doesn’t exist and you’ll be very happy.
Trust Me
If you are moving to OSX, be prepared to use the mouse. ALOT. OSX is easy to use, user friendly for one fact and one fact only, to level with the stupidity of the users.
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