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should be pretty straight forward. what kind of data do you need to move over?
 
There are a lot of ways to do this. (Via firewire, external hard drive, ethernet, wireless, etc., etc., etc.) But before we begin, are you going to be installing Windows on your mac?

BTW, the MacBook Pros are really awesome computers. You will not be needing a laptop for the next 5-6 years. (Unless your a hard core gamer).
 
The biggest thing is hundreds of photos, some PDF repair manuals (auto related), and of course Internet favorites. I don't really have any documents of any kind of importance stored on the PC. I have an external hard drive with most eveything backed up to it.

I had them install (standard perhaps?) a program that runs Windows as well.

Thanks for the input. I just didn't want to do anything stupid. I finally got tired of fighting off PC trojans and viruses and made the plunge...
 
Chris,

Its been a couple years since I went through this, but I recall that for moving messages and attachments from Outlook or Outlook Express to Mac Mail App you will need to go through a two step process. First by creating an intermediate file and then importing from that.

If you have a lot of PDF files I suggest you get an application called Yep. It is a great PDF manager kind of like iTunes for pdf files. I have thousands of PDfs related to my work and this allows me to keep them organized and actually find stuff when I need it.

If you use Quicken on your PC for your checkbook, take a look at iBank. It is way better than the stunted version of Quicken for Mac that Intuit has. If you do time billing the same company that writes iBank, has a program named iBiz that is as good, or better than Timeslips.

I also almost forgot, the best office application, that is also free is OpenOffice from Sun (Openoffice.org). It has everything MS Office has and creates MS Office compatible files.

Henry
 
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Henry Boyd said:
Chris,

Its been a couple years since I went through this, but I recall that for moving messages and attachments from Outlook or Outlook Express to Mac Mail App you will need to go through a two step process. First by creating an intermediate file and then importing from that.

If you have a lot of PDF files I suggest you get an application called Yep. It is a great PDF manager kind of like iTunes for pdf files. I have thousands of PDfs related to my work and this allows me to keep them organized and actually find stuff when I need it.

If you use Quicken on your PC for your checkbook, take a look at iBank. It is way better than the stunted version of Quicken for Mac that Intuit has. If you do time billing the same company that writes iBank, has a program named iBiz that is as good, or better than Timeslips.

I also almost forgot, the best office application, that is also free is OpenOffice from Sun (Openoffice.org). It has everything MS Office has and creates MS Office compatible files.

Henry
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Thank you Henry!
 
In addition to what Henry said, there are also help files, white papers and video clips on Apple's web site that address some of those migration issues.
 
Better than all that; You can make an appointment at the Apple Store Genius Bar and they will transfer all your data over for you if you have ProCare. No need to kill yourself! Go to: http://www.apple.com/retail/procare/
ProCare costs $99, but it's for a whole year and includes a lot more than just the data transfer.

Gene
 
Henry Boyd said:
Chris,

Its been a couple years since I went through this, but I recall that for moving messages and attachments from Outlook or Outlook Express to Mac Mail App you will need to go through a two step process. First by creating an intermediate file and then importing from that.

If you have a lot of PDF files I suggest you get an application called Yep. It is a great PDF manager kind of like iTunes for pdf files. I have thousands of PDfs related to my work and this allows me to keep them organized and actually find stuff when I need it.
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Yep, you got great advice from Henry.

Congrats on the switch over. You will wonder wht the hell you were using "those" other paperweights for so long.

25+ years as a mac user, and I aint ever going back.
 
"I also almost forgot, the best office application, that is also free is OpenOffice from Sun (Openoffice.org). It has everything MS Office has and creates MS Office compatible files.

Henry"

You can get this for any other platform - and it has many converters you can get on the web(google's your friend) for free, that will read a lot of(all?) the different versions of MS Word/Excel/.... file formats. The menus and formats are almost identical to the MS office suite. Google Pack used to include StarOffice(a Sun equivelance to OpenOffice), but they discontinued that in Nov '08.
 
Chris R said:
Good stuff everyone- thanks! Of course my first favorite saved in Safari is guess what- CSR!
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Dork. My first 595 favorites are porn.

























































Just kidding on the dork thing. Dont want to get banned
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remind me not to shake your hand if we ever meet.
 
One quick note. If you have used Outlook or Express in Windows, you don't necessarily have to change over to the Apple mail program. Microsoft offers a very capable product in their Office for Mac suite called Entourage. It works great and is completely seamless.
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VTSeaRay said:
"I also almost forgot, the best office application, that is also free is OpenOffice from Sun (Openoffice.org). It has everything MS Office has and creates MS Office compatible files.

Henry"

You can get this for any other platform - and it has many converters you can get on the web(google's your friend) for free, that will read a lot of(all?) the different versions of MS Word/Excel/.... file formats. The menus and formats are almost identical to the MS office suite. Google Pack used to include StarOffice(a Sun equivelance to OpenOffice), but they discontinued that in Nov '08.
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Right StarOffice was the same thing except, they charged a fee and included support. I think Sun did it just to create enough confidence to get open source software into corporate offices and create the momentum to make it work. I've been using on the Mac for about six months. Before that I was using Neo Office for about two years. Neo is built on Open Office code and had a Mac OSX UI. Open Office until last fall worked through the X windows interface and produced a UI that was about equal to Win 3.x.

Either way I have had zero problems sending files to clients who Win based and using Office.

Henry

Henry
 
Marvin Gardens said:
One quick note. If you have used Outlook or Express in Windows, you don't necessarily have to change over to the Apple mail program. Microsoft offers a very capable product in their Office for Mac suite called Entourage. It works great and is completely seamless.
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You are right. My problem is that the Outlooks, and I assume Entourage also, uses a single file as a repository for emails and attachments. Over the past few years I've had that file go south and lost my emails. Mac mail is built on the idea of keeping messages and attachments in a file directory hierarchy lowering the risk of disaster by a single file failure.

That also reminds me. Chris - Get your self an inexpensive external hard drive and set up the Time Machine auto backup. When you upgrade to your next mac, all you will have to do is restore to the new computer. In the meantime you are covered if you drop your new MBP, or the hard drive croaks.

Henry
 
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