transferring data from pc to imac

[Sturgeon boy]

my new Imac arrived yesterday and i was wondering what was the easiest way to transfer all my music,pictures files etc from my old pc to my new mac. my local (150 mile round trip ) apple store will do it for free but if its easy enough i'll do it my self
cheers in advance

 

[kgian]

Just copy them to an external usb hard drive connected to the pc. Then connect to hard drive to the mac. If I remember correctly, OSX can READ ntfs partitions but can't write to them. It is going to be fine for your job though...

 

[NCWildcat]

Hook up both machines to your LAN (I don't recommend wireless). Run this on your PC:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1557

Search for Migration Assistant on your Mac and run that. Your Mac and PC should talk to each other and you'll have to pick what you want to transfer. I had about 300 GB to transfer and it took about 30 min.

 

[AaronM5670]

Hook up both machines to your LAN (I don't recommend wireless). Run this on your PC:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1557

Search for Migration Assistant on your Mac and run that. Your Mac and PC should talk to each other and you'll have to pick what you want to transfer. I had about 300 GB to transfer and it took about 30 min.

Yes, I did this too, it works like a dream considering Microsoft and Apple aren't exactly best friends

 

[NCWildcat]

Yes, I did this too, it works like a dream considering Microsoft and Apple aren't exactly best friends

Yes, it was mostly painless. I made the mistake of running it after I had created my account on the Mac, so I had rename the Windows account to transfer, then delete the original Mac account and rename the new one. Wish it could handle transferring/merging accounts of the same name.