Just after buying a Mac Book Pro

godtabh

Having used windows for the majority of my life I have switched over to a mac. Sure why not!

Any ways I was just wondering how do I start transferring stuff from my PC to the MacBook Pro?

Also I have an windows 7 CD which I know I can use via bootcamp. How does that work?

skapegoat

godtabh wrote: »

Having used windows for the majority of my life I have switched over to a mac. Sure why not!

Any ways I was just wondering how do I start transferring stuff from my PC to the MacBook Pro?

Also I have an windows 7 CD which I know I can use via bootcamp. How does that work?

Havent a clue about windows 7 stuff.

Get an external harddrive and transfer the files you want to that then onto the mac.

Dermoth

Google 'Migration Assistant' or check under switching to mac on apple.com. It's an application on OSX that will move your data.

Odaise Gaelach

Apple.com have pretty much everything you need to know about Bootcamp.

godtabh

skapegoat wrote: »

Havent a clue about windows 7 stuff.

Get an external harddrive and transfer the files you want to that then onto the mac.

Does it matter about hd formatting ie will my windows external hard drive work on osx

sarkozy

If your drive is in FAT32, no problem. If it's in NTSC, you might not see some files, but it should be fine, really. Those bugs have mostly been ironed out. And if you're going to use Time Machine to back up your MBP, your external drive will have to be in HFS/HFS+.

I just bought a new MBP on account of my old one creaking to a halt. Good price, too.

Freddie59

godtabh wrote: »

Having used windows for the majority of my life I have switched over to a mac. Sure why not!

Any ways I was just wondering how do I start transferring stuff from my PC to the MacBook Pro?

Also I have an windows 7 CD which I know I can use via bootcamp. How does that work?

I stand corrected if wrong, but if you install it via Bootcamp you will have to power down to switch between both?? SP?

If you install Parallels (I have it on an iMac) you can just toggle between both.

Only problem that way is that W7 will not recognise the firewire port.

Hope that helps.

bennygood

You can reformat your backup drive in apple's disk utility app. It's in the utilities folder, inside the applications folder. The disk utility is also handy for erasing rewritable CDs and DVDs.

Sad Professor

Freddie59 wrote: »

I stand corrected if wrong, but if you install it via Bootcamp you will have to power down to switch between both?? SP?

That's correct, but many people prefer Bootcamp for various reasons. It's faster and more compatible. The virtual machine method is very heavy on system resources.

Colonel Panic

With enough RAM, there's no reason to use Bootcamp unless you want to play newer Windows games. Even stuff like Blender and CAD packages are perfectly useable!

godtabh

Colonel Panic wrote: »

With enough RAM, there's no reason to use Bootcamp unless you want to play newer Windows games. Even stuff like Blender and CAD packages are perfectly useable!

One of the main reasons (probably the only reason) is to use CAD via bootcamp. I don't need it a lot but I would like the option.

godtabh

its arrived!

But as its a birthday present I may only be allowed to turn it on to check it works etc and put it away til December!

BowlingLad

How did you guys backup and move your old emails??? Windows live mail to Mac

BowlingLad

bump