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I’ve watched a couple YouTube videos, but those guys are mostly paid tech folks. Just wondered if there was anything others here learned or wish they’d known before actually going PC > Mac?
DW and I are switching to an Apple laptop and iMac in the next few months after using nothing but Windows (and CPM, MS-DOS before) since Bill Gates was in Junior High! We have tons of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, pictures, MP3, MP4/MOV, past TurboTax files, and other files we’d like to keep.
It appears the Apple Migration Assistant will handle the file transfer via WiFi pretty easily. I’m not at all concerned about any of it aside from some XLS files that Numbers won’t be able to handle. Pages & Keynote are good enough for us, we might have to buy/subscribe to Excel. I’m not clear on what losing PC iTunes will mean, but I’m sure we won’t lose our music library (about 2600 songs). We’ve been using iPhones & iPads for years so our contacts, email, calendars and reminders are on iCloud or web based - so no worries there. [I realize no Applications will transfer, though Mac versions exist for many/most]
I’m also not clear what the Apple file/folder structure will look like. Will it mimic our PC folders, or change them?
I’ve begun to familiarize myself with the idiosyncrasies of Mac OS versus Windows.
In any event, we’re migrating come what may.
DW and I are switching to an Apple laptop and iMac in the next few months after using nothing but Windows (and CPM, MS-DOS before) since Bill Gates was in Junior High! We have tons of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, pictures, MP3, MP4/MOV, past TurboTax files, and other files we’d like to keep.
It appears the Apple Migration Assistant will handle the file transfer via WiFi pretty easily. I’m not at all concerned about any of it aside from some XLS files that Numbers won’t be able to handle. Pages & Keynote are good enough for us, we might have to buy/subscribe to Excel. I’m not clear on what losing PC iTunes will mean, but I’m sure we won’t lose our music library (about 2600 songs). We’ve been using iPhones & iPads for years so our contacts, email, calendars and reminders are on iCloud or web based - so no worries there. [I realize no Applications will transfer, though Mac versions exist for many/most]
I’m also not clear what the Apple file/folder structure will look like. Will it mimic our PC folders, or change them?
I’ve begun to familiarize myself with the idiosyncrasies of Mac OS versus Windows.
In any event, we’re migrating come what may.
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