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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.
and even background pictures
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thats clearly a "must have" feature, take your background pictures with you whereever you go, from pc to mac, from mac to cellular, from cellular to the fridge door
What about my mouse settings? Acceleration, double-click speed, button assignm...er, nevermind.
Is there anything like this in the works for the penguin masses?
Sure dude, It's called a brain...
* Make it free/OS ( +5 Informative )
* Macs are expenive ( +3 Informative )
- No they are not ( +1 Informative, -1 Troll )
- Yes they are
- fuck you
- You a wanker and a twat
- repeat forever.
* Macs are slow ( +3 Informative )
- No they are not ( +1 Informative, -1 Troll )
- Yes they are
- Suck my cock dick head
- I know you are, but what am I?
- repeat forever.
* Mac is not really/fully commited to OS, it sucks ( +5 Informative )
* Clone it for Linux ( +5 Informative )
- Don't clone it for linux, if you can't move your files your a thick bastard and should not use linux ( +5 Informative )
- Piss off dickhead
- fuck you
- repeat forever.
* Slashpost ( -1 Repeating everything allready said )
though if you have to wonder about your game (programs) moving and working, maybe you are.
If apple had the sense god gave a marshmallow, it would make the migration software free.
> Is there anything like this in the works for the penguin masses?
Yes! It's called dual boot. Mount the windows partition, and everything is there!!
Surely MS-Office for Windows and MS-Office for Mac can interoperate without trouble?
(Ducks and runs)
When Apple figure out how to get Windows apps working on MacOS (don't think it'll happen myself)
Connectix has already figured this out. Buy the Virtual PC 5 emulator for Mac OS.
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Is there anything like this in the works for the penguin masses?
You're fscking joking right? IMO, any linux user worth his/her salt should find transferring files from a linux machine to an OS X (BSD) machine pretty fscking simple. If not, shame on you, go and stand in the corner.
for about $1300-$1400, which you're not going to convince me is that much more than a well-built equivalently priced PC.
In other news, it was announced that object X is not that much heavier than any other object of equivalent weight.
I believe posters are recognized by their sig. So I made one.
BMW is never going to have a large market share if they don't let customers buy the cars the way they want. They will just be a niche car company selling expensive cars to really arrogant, snotty people that think they are superior to everyone else. Plus I hear their owner likes to wear black all the time.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Please to meet you, Mr OS2. I'm sure you find better as a human rather than an OS trying to compete with Microsoft. I like your self-flagellating philosophy, something that /.tters might as well learn.
Tell me, was the competition *that* hard?
More than mere navel gazing.
Congratulations, you are not in Apple's target market of people who want a machine that "just works". Move along now, this machine is not for you.
Even technical users sometimes just want the damn thing to work.
y'know there's always been a migration tool to help users move from Windows to ANYthing.. just plop an old DOS bootdisk in and fdisk away. nothing to it ;)
Gosh, Colon, you're right. Apple should ship their machines with 2-button mice for the sake of all those people who prefer not to even have a keyboard plugged into their computer.