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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. Re:most important feature by AlgUSF · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Yeah, you might move over that clouds background which comes with windows. I'm sure Microsoft copyrighted that clouds.bmp file.

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    I want my rights back. I was actually using them when our government stole them after 9/11.
  2. Why not just burn your files to CD-R or CD-RW? by rklrkl · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Unless the Move2Mac software does some very clever things (like convert file formats, registry settings etc.), I don't see why you can't just burn some CD-R[W]'s on a PC in a Mac-readable format (Rock Ridge, ISO9660 or whatever) and then read them back on the Mac. Or am I missing something deadly obvious here ?

  3. Waste of time for Linux by d3xt3r · · Score: 1, Redundant
    Is there anything like this in the works for the penguin masses?

    If you can't figure out how to manually move your files, you shouldn't be using Linux.