Moving to Mac Made Easy

Jaguar777 writes "According to an article on CNET, Apple has a new weapon in its campaign to woo PC users: a $59 piece of software that makes the switch to Macintosh easier. Detto Technologies has started selling Move2Mac, a combination of software and a custom USB cable that helps PC users move many of their files, settings and even background pictures to a new Mac running Mac OS X 10.2. Sounds nice. Is there anything like this in the works for the penguin masses?" Detto has had software to move settings from one PC to another; Apple requested them to make it to move from a PC to a Mac, and will carry it in their retail stores.

Comments

Umm...

[evil_pb]

What about ... FILE SHARING and a piece of CAT5??

Seems like the technology to do this has been available for years, yet they want to make you pay for yet another piece of useless clutterware not to mention USB1 is S-L-O-W for file transfers, so unless you're running newer hardware to begin with you're going to be at it a while.

Ethernet on the other hand, has been around a good long while and it would actually be cheaper to buy a $12 NIC and 6' cable, be faster, and not really be that big of a deal to set up.

Oh wait, these are average Windows/mac users... There goes the Network Neighborhood. If apple was serious about this, their code would be an integral part of OS/X from the start, with the capability there for enet transfer, and a USB cable extra if you really need it or want it.

As for the "can I get this for Linux" comment ... umm dude, there are other questions you need answered first I think. Unfortunately with Linux becoming the "UNIX for Soccer Moms Worldwide" it's attracting a much less competent userbase than it used to, and since that seems to be welcomed it changes the scope of the operating system and it's resources en masse. But this is way off topic, so I'll quit.

Re:most important feature

[Anonymous Custard]

That is why images like this image exist

(from speech bubble in linked image) "you can take my mac when you pry my cold dead fingers off the mouse"

It's just like a Mac user to need multiple fingers for a single mouse button:-)

Does the apple switch software also help you get used to all the inconveniences of apples, or does it just hope they'll go away?

If apple wants to convert the users who are too dumb to save their important papers (i still think you're cute ellen) to network drives or other secure devices; well they can have them. This whole switch campaign reminds me of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy book where all the useless people (hairdressers, politicians, etc) were sent to a new planet in the first of three spaceships, to go and wait (snicker) for the rest of the world to come by later (wink-wink).