New Mac user
Hello all! I'll be soon purchasing the entry-i5 Mac mini and performing some RAM upgrades on it. I'm migrating from an aging HP Pavilion dv5 that has starting to wain after only a year of constant use, running Windows 7 Home Premium.
I've been browsing places like machash.com and reading up on a lot of things about Mac OS X. I'm well acquainted with iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 and have experimented a bit on a 13-inch MBP on display at the store I work at. What I want to know is:
- What's the best way to transfer data from Win7 to Mac OS X?
I'm backing up everything I want to transfer onto a modest Seagate 250GB HDD. What file format issues will I encounter and what kind of reformatting will I have to perform?
- What software is a must?
What would be good recommendations for software?
- What should I avoid?
I know that the Mac ecosystem is much different from that of Windows, what advice is there on what to avoid? Hardware, software, or otherwise.
I've been browsing places like machash.com and reading up on a lot of things about Mac OS X. I'm well acquainted with iOS 5 on my iPhone 4 and have experimented a bit on a 13-inch MBP on display at the store I work at. What I want to know is:
- What's the best way to transfer data from Win7 to Mac OS X?
I'm backing up everything I want to transfer onto a modest Seagate 250GB HDD. What file format issues will I encounter and what kind of reformatting will I have to perform?
- What software is a must?
What would be good recommendations for software?
- What should I avoid?
I know that the Mac ecosystem is much different from that of Windows, what advice is there on what to avoid? Hardware, software, or otherwise.