Section 27. Switching Is Easy

27. Switching Is Easy

Moving all your files from one PC to another is hard enough. So switching to the Mac should be even harder, right?

Wrong. Have a wireless network? You can beam your files from one computer to the other. Don't have a wireless network? Pipe your files from your old PC to your new Mac through a standard ethernet cable. Don't have a network card in your old PC? Copy your files to an external hard drive (or even your iPod!), and then copy them to your Mac. Prefer a turnkey solution? Move2Mac software ($49.95, from detto.com) provides USB cables to connect your old PC to your new Mac, and an application that makes it easy to select files, folders, email, and address book entries on the PC, specify destinations on the Mac, and move up to 500MB of data from one machine to the other in 15 minutes or less.