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People,
A just friend ordered her first Mac, a MBP, she is switching from a windows notebook. My question is, what is the easiest way to move files, address book and all from the old to the new? Her old machine does have USB 2.0 on it, btw. Any help or advice here would be great.
Thanks
Bill
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my macs: quicksilver dual 800 g4, 1.24 gig ram, 500 gig hd, 20 + 17 inch displays
(first mac i've ever owned, bought brand new)
2.16 core 2 duo macbook pro, 2.0 gig ram, 120 gig hd
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She should just use a high-capacity flash drive or external hard drive for this stuff.
Address book may be trickier. She'll need to drag its entries to the desktop or a new folder, which makes them into vCards. Now copy those files to the Mac, then drag-drop them into either Entourage or OS X's Address Book to add them.
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Celebrating 10 years and 4000 posts on MacNN!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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my macs: quicksilver dual 800 g4, 1.24 gig ram, 500 gig hd, 20 + 17 inch displays
(first mac i've ever owned, bought brand new)
2.16 core 2 duo macbook pro, 2.0 gig ram, 120 gig hd
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Apple should really provide a migration assistant tool for PC->Macs.
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Yeah - I'm put off by the cost and the scare-stories they have on their front page. Having an option to get a cable and a disc for your PC when you buy a new Mac would be a nice touch for people worried about this. I still get 'will my photos work on a Mac?' questions.
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