Just ordered a new iMac

**Mulgo** · 9th May 2009, 08:40 AM

Originally Posted by Armadillo

Scallops, good call. If my applications didn't need windoze, I would have done the same. Alas, just bought another microsoft machine

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I also have an application which requires Windows. Installed Parallels on my MacBook - works perfect. The interesting thing is that it works a lot faster on my Mac than on the Windows machine.

**solmanic** · 9th May 2009, 11:42 AM

Couldn't resist posting this new Mac advert...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvBKTSaNng0"]YouTube - Apple "Get a Mac" ad: Legal Copy[/ame]

**Scallops** · 9th May 2009, 10:00 PM

Love it, Andrew!

First post on the iMac!

I'm up and running - 24 hours and I have Safari and Mail working for 2 users, with all bookmarks and addresses imported too.

I have also managed to bring over all my data files from the PC - Yay! I'm PC free!

**dmdigital** · 10th May 2009, 06:05 AM

Have you got Time Machine up and running? If not get a 500GB USB drive and do so for backups.

**Scallops** · 10th May 2009, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by dm_td5

Have you got Time Machine up and running? If not get a 500GB USB drive and do so for backups.

Jeez mate - give it a rest!

I thought that from ZERO knowledge of how to drive the thing - to get to a point within a day of ownership where I have the internet and mail configured - with all my PC Bookmarks and addresses etc - was a pretty good start!

The next step is to connect the Maxtor EHD and transfer all Kat's photos over - then I'll format it for the Mac and use it for backups. I'm aware of the Time machine app but haven't checked it out yet.

It's an amazing thing - love it already. I love the way you can view files on a scroll with just their front page - brilliant way to view a series of photos.

**dmdigital** · 10th May 2009, 08:50 AM

Didn't mean to come across as pushy, just that backing up from the beginning is a good start as you can rollback on anything that gets confusing or that you mess up.

Just to keep the Windooze users' happy tell them how many megabytes of updates you had to download - when I got mine last year the first thing it wanted was 375MB of updates. But a least it tells you which ones require a reboot

**Scallops** · 10th May 2009, 08:57 AM

Originally Posted by dm_td5

Didn't mean to come across as pushy, just that backing up from the beginning is a good start as you can rollback on anything that gets confusing or that you mess up.

Just to keep the Windooze users' happy tell them how many megabytes of updates you had to download - when I got mine last year the first thing it wanted was 375MB of updates. But a least it tells you which ones require a reboot

You didn't come across as pushy at all - only kidding.

But yeah - the update thing was a bit of a shock - I blew most of this month's bandwidth when it did these on mine! Still - if I run out of fast internet I'll just spend the rest of the month working out how to get the most out of the machine offline.

Keep the help suggestions coming, Derek - I'm on a steep learning curve over here but the thing is - the iMac OS is so much fun to learn on I don't really care!

**sashadidi** · 10th May 2009, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by Scallops

Guys - did you have a PC with stuff you needed to transfer to your Macs? I'm sure I'll figure it out - but was wondering if there is some easy way (such as a built in utility) to do this?

I'd like to transfer....

1) Emails and addresses - from PC (Mozilla Thunderbird) to Mac
2) All my PC documents (Word, Excel, PDF etc) from PC to Mac
3) All our digital photos (jpeg, raw).

I have an external Maxtor drive, used for PC backup - but I guess I can't read that from the Mac unless it's reformatted which would erase all the data anyway.

As I said, I'll have fun reacquainting myself and transferring my stuff - but I bought the extended Apple care too in case I struggle!

Its good to be back in Apple land - or it will be when it arrives.

Welcome to the easy simple computer life
I have imac also, ok back up all word excel etc as you had them eg documents etc and save to your external drive
Use open office for mac and they will all open or I can help you with office for mac if you PM me
You can get them to "see " each other ie windows and mac
Link here or google it Mac Connect - networking Mac and PC
Save your photos and load into I photo etc
Mozilla firefox, I used password export-import from here on windows and firefox on mac
and they uploaded no problem :https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2848
and for bookmarks
[ame=http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php't=303682]Transfer Firefox bookmars from PC to Mac? - Mac Forums[/ame]
Cannot help with thunderbird Most people Use entourage here (inside mac office Pm Me) instead of mail
can help with toast etc if you want
Maybe you will then need a extra backup drive for the mac althugh my friends have a drive half in half mac and windows, I am not sure how to do that

**solmanic** · 10th May 2009, 05:50 PM

Originally Posted by Scallops

... Yay! I'm PC free!

Bull****! Mr Gates & co have spent too much time and money to let you off that easily

**drivesafe** · 11th May 2009, 08:21 AM

Hay, folks, don’t forget that there is a guy on this site who sells Macs.

For the life of me, I don’t know why he doesn’t advertise the fact because he also has a loads of info about them.

Incisor is the man to see next time any of you want any Apple gear.

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