I am buying a mac powerbook but have a windows I want to transfer all my media how do I do that?

Question

All I am wanting to get off of my windows is all my media music, video, and all my documents. What is the best way to go about this....

Answer 1

You have a few choices:

1: Use a network file share. Connect the two computers through a LAN and the turn on Windows File Sharing (right click on a folder and choose sharing, enable it as well as for anything below that level) and then turn on the file sharing for the Mac (System Preferences ---> Sharing ---> (checkbox) Personal File Sharing, Windows Sharing

2: Use an external harddrive to transfer it. This means manually copying over all the songs onto the harddrive from the windows unit, and then copying them onto your Mac.

3: There are several more ways to go about it--you can do everything from burning media CDs or DVDs to the Drag and Drop method of file transfer. Hell, you can even install AIM on both computers and use that to transfer the files as you would with a friend.

Good Luck! And feel free to ask me to clarify anything

Answer 2

When you get the powerbook, just network them and copy the files over. Networking on the MAC is VERY easy. When you network them, just open system preferences on the MAC, select sharing and then just turn on windows sharing and your windows machine will see your whole MAC drive and you can just copy and paste.

Answer 3

your going to have convert all .wmv files to mp3 or .mp4
also all videos have to be in mpeg
you need microsoft office on the mac to open office documents from the pc
text documents will work fine though