Transfer pics, music from PC to new Powerbook

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acakaliman

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My new Powerbook (15 inch) just arrived and is still in the box. I can't wait to get home and get started (I'm a new Mac user) Now, I need to figure out how to transfer pictures and music files from my PC to the PowerBook. Could someone comment on what is the easiest way to do this?

Also, is there a good "beginners" website (or book) for new Mac users? One that goes somewhat into depth for someone who wants to learn more about unix/OSX (but not necessarily at a programmer's level)? Thanks!
 
For the books, look at what O'Reilly has to offer. Their "missing manuals", I think, are quite good.

For the pictures and the music...

Pictures are easy. You just put them into iLife. Either by exporting them onto CD-Rs or DVD-Rs on the PC and dragging those disks' icons onto iPhoto's window or by using the import command in iPhoto. You can also network your PC to your Mac - which you might want to accomplish later, anyway.

Music might be a bit different. Theoretically, it's all the same, just with iTunes instead of iPhoto. But if you have lots of tracks as WMA, putting them onto iTunes means it'll transform the tracks - which means a loss of quality (check it out yourself to see if you mind that). But for WAV, AIFF, MP3, MPEG 1 Layer 2, AAC files, you simply drop those files onto iTunes.
 
An addition to the books thing: Of course people - and myself - can only tell you what _we_ think are good books. But whether a Mac book is good for you depends on what you're exactly looking for, but even more it depends on what _your_ background is. Maybe a Google search for "books for switchers Mac Windows" gives you something to start...

But I'd most _certainly_ start without a book first. Just give your Mac a whirl. And always keep in mind that while something might be accomplished differently on a Mac doesn't mean it _can't_ be accomplished.

For more specific questions, just head over to macosx.com again. You'll get plenty of answers.

And enjoy your PB!
 
Your PC probably already _has_ a network port. So you just need a network cable, basically. Hardware-wise, that is. Then you need to define one computer as the 'server' and one as the 'client'. On the server, you share some directories, basically, or simply your home folder. Both operating systems offer fairly simple home networking for sharing your home folder(s). For Windows, you'll look in the Control Panel, for Mac OS X you'll look into the 'Sharing' preference pane in System Preferences.
 
i used an external drive formatted for ntfs. very quick and easy. the drive is useful for backing up to as well.
 
Does Tiger do NTFS out of the box well? I.e. read and write? I know it can't _format_ a drive to NTFS. Unless that changed behind my back, too...
 
should have mentioned that the drive i used was ntfs formatted via windows xp which was on my last ever pc, before i saw the light.
 
Yes, but my question was: Does that drive work under Mac OS X now? Readable/writable?
 
the drive was readable, but not writable mounted on macosx. it was r/w on xp. when i had finished transferring i formatted the drive to macos. still works
 
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