The new 13 inch MacBook

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I need to go portable and am sick of the problems that a computer illiterate fella has with a pc so I just ordered me up a new 13 inch MacBook. Don't know a thing about them but the precision aluminum unibody enclosure is machined from one solid piece of aluminum - cool lookin :cool:. I watched the video on the manufacture process and it sold me:D I guess I am a sucker for a good add. All I do on the puter is surf sites like these, load music and video into my ipod, limited word processing and photos so I think the mac will serve me well. I am sick of spy sweeping and virus blocking and from what I understand you don't have to worry about that stuff with a mac. Time will tell.

Once it gets here next week I will no longer be out of touch for days at a time. A couple of places on the other end of my route have wireless access so I can check in :sweet

Question to you all is how is the best way to get my photos, itunes, a few documents and some other stuff from slow antique desktop to new high fangled mac laptop? All I know about computers is what I have learned myself pointing and clicking over the years. I have some little memory stick thingie majiggers that plug into the usb port, would it work to put the data on them then load it in the mac or does it all need to be reformatted and such?
 

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There is a program called "Move to Mac" that will do this for you. Or you can just burn the items you want to transfer to a CD or DVD and do it that way. I took a different route when I went to Apple. I waited until I need the photos or documents and then transferred. You won't need all of the crap you have on the old computer. You can skip a virus scanner, or use ClamXav which is free. Don't go with Norton for Mac. Play with it, you won't screw it up, unlike Windows. Good Luck and PM me if you have anyother questions.

Dave :D
 

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Yet another comes from the dark side. Once you go Mac, you never go back!:D
 

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Correct rray. I tried to maintain my Windowz desktop computer as a back up and I finally installed Linux (Suse 11.0) on it. Windowz doesn't hold anything for me.

Dave
 

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You hook the two computers together using a USB Cable. You will then run Move2mac and it will create a program to run Move2mac on your PC. Follow the instructions and you can move all, or any of the files you want. It will take a while, about 30 minutes for me. It is really pretty simple. Go for it Crumm.

Dave :)
 

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30 minutes ain't a while, it takes that long to boot up my PC ;) I am liking the sounds of "simple". :sweet
 

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OK, Crumm maybe a little longer. I don't remember now. My computers boot in a minute or two at the most. Try it. Nice thing about Macs is that you ALMOST can't screw them up. Not like Windowz, where you have to be careful how you touch them.

Dave :)
 

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