Apple Mac Question

[Beach Hut]

Seriously thinking of investing in one as the current Dell PC is 5 years old and getting slower by the hour.

Everything is backed off to an external hard drive so if I plugged it back into a new Mac would it just redownload everything back ?

 

[Grendel]

Assuming your external drive is NTFS, OS X will read from it but I'm not sure if it'll write to it or not.

 

[Bluejuice]

It depends what you want from the drive. Standard documents and files like MS Word docs or mp3's won't be a problem but you can't expect to reinstall applications and programs that were on your PC to your Mac

 

[Beach Hut]

It depends what you want from the drive. Standard documents and files like MS Word docs or mp3's won't be a problem but you can't expect to reinstall applications and programs that were on your PC to your Mac

It has around 5 years of family photos so presumably they will be OK ?

 

[Bluejuice]

Yep, photos no problemo - providing your hard drive is formatted to NTFS as Grendal says

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Main questions to ask:
a) what you use your old computer for? i.e. what programs and what files are you creating with them
b) is your external hard drive mac compatible? (what format is it, er, formatted to?)

 

[Altered State]

Photos will be okay - will go straight into iPhoto which comes with the Mac. Nearly all Windows programs have a Mac alternative, and MP3s, JPEGs, PDFs and other common file formats will be fine.

You won't be able to just restore everything on your drive though - as you probably know OSX is a completely different system. That said you can run Windows on your Mac if you get Boot Camp, Parallels or something similar.

Have a look on Apple.com for the page about switching from Windows - it's an easy thing to do.

Which Mac are you considering? Anyway, go for it

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

It has around 5 years of family photos so presumably they will be OK ?

I would assume that they would go straight into iPhoto. I transferred from a PC to a Mac in 2008 and haven't looked back.

There are plenty of tips you can get off the net for getting programmes that can run your PC files and for transferring data across.

I think if you buy it from the Apple shop they will do it all for you in store.

 

[Beach Hut]

Photos will be okay - will go straight into iPhoto which comes with the Mac. Nearly all Windows programs have a Mac alternative, and MP3s, JPEGs, PDFs and other common file formats will be fine.

You won't be able to just restore everything on your drive though - as you probably know OSX is a completely different system. That said you can run Windows on your Mac if you get Boot Camp, Parallels or something similar.

Have a look on Apple.com for the page about switching from Windows - it's an easy thing to do.

Which Mac are you considering? Anyway, go for it

Apple 24" 2.8 GHz iMac - silly question so don't slate me are speakers in built or do you need to purchase separately ?

 

[clippedgull]

Apple 24" 2.8 GHz iMac - silly question so don't slate me are speakers in built or do you need to purchase separately ?

Built in.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

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[Beach Hut]

Built in.

Excellent answer, next dum question is the PC in built in the monitor or seperate ?

 

[clippedgull]

Built in!

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

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[clippedgull]

I have just bought the 27in version, although its been in the box for a couple of weeks, while I sort my current PC out.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Excellent answer, next dum question is the PC in built in the monitor or seperate ?

Lol, classic question. If it's an iMac, the computer is built into the screen. An iMac is all-in-one.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

Excellent answer, next dum question is the PC in built in the monitor or seperate ?

Everything is built in!

I bought some separate speakers after six months for playing my music, the in built ones weren't up to the deep bass!

 

[Beach Hut]

OK thanks kind people I am getting one this Dell is so yesterday (and fecking slow)

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

I'm sure setting up your new Mac in store used to be free, but now it seems you have to pay:

Apple Retail Store (United Kingdom) - One to One

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

Apple 24" 2.8 GHz iMac - silly question so don't slate me are speakers in built or do you need to purchase separately ?

Apple don't make a 24" iMac any more. The current models are 21.5" and 27". Are you getting this from an Apple store or a reseller?