I was able to set things up to transfer the iTunes music library over the network via Wifi. I had therefore already burnt all my music CDs into iTunes on my PC (that took a while, I can tell you!) However, even then, most of this was pretty painless:įrom my research, I knew that the iMac had no CD drive built in. The most “complicated” things I had to do were related to transferring our data from the PC to the Mac. I just went into the settings section and added them there, then checked that I could log into each one. It was simple setting up user accounts for my family too. I logged into my user account on the Mac and then signed into my iCloud account.Ī few seconds later, and everything from the iPod was there on the Mac, waiting for me. I’ve always used the Touch like an electronic organiser (remember them?).I already had an iPod Touch for the past couple of years, so I had a lot of things like contact details, calendar entries and notes, backed up to iCloud. I followed the on-screen prompts to set up my language and other settings – so far, so PC. Then, put the iMac where the PC was, push the single power cord into the back of the iMac, plug it into the socket and press the “On” button on the back.Take the PC apart and place it, with all its wires in the lounge.The basics were easy to get to grips with: Apple Desktop Basics: Plug In And Startup So when the iMac arrived, I was very, very excited. What I will say, is that I had got to the point where I had to do something to make things easier for my family and me. I could talk about the daily frustrations of waiting for the machine to start up, shut down and do all the basic things that a PC should do… I won’t bore you with the details of how I grew to hate PCs and Microsoft Windows in my home environment. This is the story of how I migrated all my “stuff” – music and files – and my family – from the old PC to the Mac desktop, in around a day. Once upon a time in a small town south west of London, I received an iMac from a friend.

“My new iMac”, by Kansir, CC-A 2.0, via Flickr What about MS Office, or those programs that don’t exist in the Mac ecosystem? Why Migrate To Mac? Transferring files from the PC to the Apple desktop was easy peasy, but what to do with Windows programs? How a 30-year PC pro, used Parallels Desktop for Mac to migrate from PC, in just 1 day (more or less).

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