The Migration Assistant in Mac OS X is by far the easiest method and is obviously recommended by Apple, so you shouldn’t encounter any problems if you choose this option. There are several ways to copy your PC’s files to a your Mac – either manually which can be quite laborious, or automatically by using Apple’s Migration Assistant utility, or even with a similar third party application. Furthermore, Mac OS X allows you to preview and view many file types even if you don’t have any applications to actually open or edit them. It’s worth noting that many Mac applications such as Pages, Keynote and Numbers can import their Microsoft Office counterparts (Word, Powerpoint and Excel), so the transition will be fairly effortless in most cases. Check with your current software providers whether Mac versions are available or take a look on the Mac App Store. Popular applications that you may already be familiar with on the PC, such as Microsoft Office, have equivalent Mac versions which are almost identical in terms of functionality and can open the same files.

Unfortunately, not all file types can be viewed on a Mac, but the majority of common file formats used for documents, music, videos and pictures are compatible with Mac OS. But how do you move your files, applications and other settings? Thankfully, you can quite easily move your existing files to a new Mac and continue to use them – as long as you have compatible applications installed.

More and more people are realising the benefits of moving from a PC to a Mac.

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