http://www.computerworld.com/ en_US (c) Copyright 2009 Computerworld, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:15:00 GMT 2009-11-08T14:15:00Z en_US (c) Copyright 2009 Computerworld, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140461/Switchers_Guide_Moving_hardware_and_software_to_Mac?source=rss_hardware When you're switching from a Windows PC to a Mac, there's one piece of good news: Most of the peripherals you used with your PC--including printers, digital cameras, networking equipment, external drives, and scanners--should work fine with your Mac. The best way to confirm that is to plug each piece of hardware into your new Mac, one at a time; if OS X doesn't automatically identify it and set it up, visit the manufacturer's Web site and look for a downloadable driver. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:20:00 GMT (Harry McCracken) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140461/Switchers_Guide_Moving_hardware_and_software_to_Mac?source=rss_hardware 2009-11-06T19:20:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140459/Switchers_Guide_Move_your_files_from_PC_to_Mac?source=rss_hardware If you've been using a Windows PC but now want to move to a Mac, you likely have files--documents, PDFs, photos, music, and videos--that you want to bring with you. If you've had that PC for a while, that could mean you have many, many gigabytes of stuff to move. These days, most common file-types will work just fine on the Mac, without any need for conversion or special software. (One notable exception: If you have music and/or video in Microsoft's Windows Media formats, get Flip4Mac so you can play them in OS X's QuickTime.) The trick is getting those files from one hard drive to another. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:00 GMT (Harry McCracken) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140459/Switchers_Guide_Move_your_files_from_PC_to_Mac?source=rss_hardware 2009-11-06T19:19:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140458/Switchers_Guide_Moving_from_Windows_to_the_Mac?source=rss_hardware [Editors' note: We asked Harry McCracken, the former editor of PC World and the editor of the Technologizer blog, to write a guide to switching to the Mac from Windows. We hope that it's a good resource for anyone--including the friends and family of long-time Mac users--who are making the move from Windows to the Mac. McCracken is himself a semi-switcher--he uses both a MacBook Pro and a Windows netbook every day.] Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:19:00 GMT (Harry McCracken) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140458/Switchers_Guide_Moving_from_Windows_to_the_Mac?source=rss_hardware 2009-11-06T19:19:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140453/AMD_graphics_chip_shortage_hitting_PC_vendors?source=rss_hardware AMD has confirmed that a TSMC foundry has been slow to ramp up production of its new 40-nm graphics chip, which is forcing PC makers to delay shipments of desktop and laptop systems. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:44:00 GMT sharon_gaudin@computerworld.com (Sharon Gaudin) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140453/AMD_graphics_chip_shortage_hitting_PC_vendors?source=rss_hardware 2009-11-06T18:44:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140400/Microsoft_scores_big_with_early_Windows_7_sales?source=rss_hardware Microsoft sold over three times more copies of Windows 7 in the week surrounding the Oct. 22 launch than it did Vista during its opening days in 2007, a retail marketing research analyst said today. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:44:00 GMT gkeizer@ix.netcom.com (Gregg Keizer) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140400/Microsoft_scores_big_with_early_Windows_7_sales?source=rss_hardware 2009-11-05T19:44:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140382/21.5_and_27_inch_iMacs_Late_2009_?source=rss_hardware Featuring bigger and better screens and shiny new mice, the physical changes to the aluminum iMac in this update are the most dramatic since it was introduced over two years ago, but the speed improvements are marginal at best. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:53:00 GMT (Roman Loyola) http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9140382/21.5_and_27_inch_iMacs_Late_2009_?source=rss_hardware 2009-11-05T14:53:00Z http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/64/Windows+and+Linux+PCs View more Desktops news and analysis from Computerworld.com http://www.computerworld.com/s/topic/64/Windows+and+Linux+PCs