Moving to Mac Made Easy 368
Jaguar777 writes "According to an article on CNET, Apple has a new weapon in its campaign to woo PC users: a $59 piece of software that makes the switch to Macintosh easier.
Detto Technologies has started selling Move2Mac, a combination of software and a custom USB cable that helps PC users move many of their files, settings and even background pictures to a new Mac running Mac OS X 10.2. Sounds nice. Is there anything like this in the works for the penguin masses?" Detto has had software to move settings from one PC to another; Apple requested them to make it to move from a PC to a Mac, and will carry it in their retail stores.
most important feature (Score:4, Funny)
thats clearly a "must have" feature, take your background pictures with you whereever you go, from pc to mac, from mac to cellular, from cellular to the fridge door
Mouse settings? (Score:5, Funny)
Missing software (Score:1, Funny)
An obvious answer (Score:4, Funny)
Sure dude, It's called a brain...
Slashpost (Score:1, Funny)
* Make it free/OS ( +5 Informative )
* Macs are expenive ( +3 Informative )
- No they are not ( +1 Informative, -1 Troll )
- Yes they are
- fuck you
- You a wanker and a twat
- repeat forever.
* Macs are slow ( +3 Informative )
- No they are not ( +1 Informative, -1 Troll )
- Yes they are
- Suck my cock dick head
- I know you are, but what am I?
- repeat forever.
* Mac is not really/fully commited to OS, it sucks ( +5 Informative )
* Clone it for Linux ( +5 Informative )
- Don't clone it for linux, if you can't move your files your a thick bastard and should not use linux ( +5 Informative )
- Piss off dickhead
- fuck you
- repeat forever.
* Slashpost ( -1 Repeating everything allready said )
Re:Missing software (Score:1, Funny)
Re:All my files? (Score:3, Funny)
If apple had a brain.. (Score:5, Funny)
Anything for Penguin Masses? (Score:4, Funny)
Yes! It's called dual boot. Mount the windows partition, and everything is there!!
Why is this a problem? (Score:3, Funny)
(Ducks and runs)
Running Microsoft Windows on Mac OS (Score:5, Funny)
When Apple figure out how to get Windows apps working on MacOS (don't think it'll happen myself)
Connectix has already figured this out. Buy the Virtual PC 5 emulator for Mac OS [connectix.com].
Re:Apple's next step (Score:5, Funny)
Re:+1: Use of '$' in stead of 'S' in 'MS'. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:most important feature (Score:4, Funny)
wtf ? (Score:1, Funny)
You're fscking joking right? IMO, any linux user worth his/her salt should find transferring files from a linux machine to an OS X (BSD) machine pretty fscking simple. If not, shame on you, go and stand in the corner.
Re:most important feature (Score:3, Funny)
And with good reason. The background picture they downloaded and installed may very well be the biggest single piece of work effort that they have invested in their Windows computer. They, rightly so, want to preserve the investment of time and effort that they have put into their PC.
Re:Apple's next step (Score:3, Funny)
for about $1300-$1400, which you're not going to convince me is that much more than a well-built equivalently priced PC.
In other news, it was announced that object X is not that much heavier than any other object of equivalent weight.
I have the same complaint about... (Score:5, Funny)
BMW is never going to have a large market share if they don't let customers buy the cars the way they want. They will just be a niche car company selling expensive cars to really arrogant, snotty people that think they are superior to everyone else. Plus I hear their owner likes to wear black all the time.
Re:most important feature (Score:2, Funny)
On the other hand, my desktop is plain black.
Re:I won't move to Mac. Make Mac move to me (Score:3, Funny)
Please to meet you, Mr OS2. I'm sure you find better as a human rather than an OS trying to compete with Microsoft. I like your self-flagellating philosophy, something that /.tters might as well learn.
Tell me, was the competition *that* hard?
Re:most important feature (Score:3, Funny)
Me: Okay - we'll just dump everything into this Zip drive I just stuck in the USB port - you want everything moved?
Them: Yeah
Me: Okay, My Docs, Email, etc... We'll get the 15Gb of MP3s later okay?
Them: Can you at least copy over Dido?
Me: Okay - right - not just plug it into the new machine click click tap tap click Waalaah - your email, address book, your docs all in place
Them: But wheres my cool Kylie backdrop and freaky wavey light screen saver
Me: You want those??
Them: What the fuck do YOU think! Jesus, I'd be better doing this myself, what a waste of fucking time, get the fuck out of my fucking house you twat! and take your Zippy disk with you!
Its the little things that matter!
Re:Apple's next step (Score:3, Funny)
Even technical users sometimes just want the damn thing to work.
Re:i've seen the pc version (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I won't move to Mac. Make Mac move to me (Score:1, Funny)
Gosh, Colon, you're right. Apple should ship their machines with 2-button mice for the sake of all those people who prefer not to even have a keyboard plugged into their computer.