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Moving to Mac Made Easy

Posted by pudge on from the here's-switch-in-your-eye dept.

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.

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  1. most important feature by nick-less · · Score: 4, Funny

    and even background pictures

    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 ...

    1. Re:most important feature by SecGreen · · Score: 4, Funny

      These background pictures could contain copyrighted content. This Move2Mac product is obviously designed to circumvent the digital rights of artists, and should be banned immediatly!

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  2. Mouse settings? by swb · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about my mouse settings? Acceleration, double-click speed, button assignm...er, nevermind.

  3. An obvious answer by HiQ · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is there anything like this in the works for the penguin masses?

    Sure dude, It's called a brain...

  4. If apple had a brain.. by mumblestheclown · · Score: 5, Funny

    If apple had the sense god gave a marshmallow, it would make the migration software free.

  5. Anything for Penguin Masses? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    > 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!!

  6. Running Microsoft Windows on Mac OS by yerricde · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. Re:Apple's next step by killmenow · · Score: 5, Funny
    How much cheaper do you want, exactly?
    This is slashdot. Venture a guess...
  8. I have the same complaint about... by toupsie · · Score: 5, Funny
    BMW. What's up with those snotty Germans? I really want one of their M-Series cars in the form factor of a VW Bug with a 1000 CD-Disc Changer & MP3 Player w/ OGG support (Fraunhofer can stick it! Snotty Germans!), corinthian leather and all the rest of that German goodness (Can you say that?). I've got my own tires from my old car but those arrogant sausage eaters won't sell me a Beemer without tires. Why can't I get one of those!? Why do I have to pay the tire tax?

    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.

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