| Author | Message | ||
     Badlionsfan |
After plugging along with the Gateway GT5464 with windows vista since 07 I couldn't take it anymore. After being happy with my iPhones for the last 6 years or so I decided to go with a Mac; the mac mini to be exact. After a few days plugging around with it I'm really digging it. Only thing I haven't been able to do successfully is transfer my music library from iTunes on the old pc to this unit. | ||
| Two_seasons |
Back it up to the iCloud, then xfer to the MacMini  | ||
| Rick_a |
Both our computers died this year. The kid broke the screen on the laptop and the PC crashed on one of the numerous power outages (just as I was days away from putting its contents on a flash drive). On of these years we'll get something new. Our tower was the remnants of several dead and obscolete PC's resurrected. Things have come a long way! | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
>"Our tower was the remnants of several dead and obscolete PC's resurrected. " My Linux box at home has been my computer now since about 2000. The only thing it still has from that year is the box itself though! | ||
| Jaimec |
I stopped building my own PCs when I discovered I could buy complete systems for less than I could build one myself. When I discovered the wild and wonderful world of factory refurbs, I went that route though my favorite online vendor (The Geeks) went off the air late last year. Just bought a refurbed Thinkpad T410 from NewEgg, bumped up the memory from 4Gb to 8Gb and installed Ubuntu Linux "Trusty Tahr" 14.04 and I'm migrating all of my files from my four (or is it five?) year old refurbished Thinkpad SL500. My main desktop computer is a refurbed HP Pavilion with a quad core AMD CPU and 8Gb of memory with a 1Tb hard drive. Got that about two years ago from the Geeks for under $400.00. It is currently Running Ubuntu Linux "Precise Pangolin" 12.04. I gave up on Windows when first Vista came out, and then just when I was going to move to Win7 I saw Microsoft's "Vision of the Future" in Win8. I figured as long as I had to learn a COMPLETELY different interface anyway, now was as good a time as any to jump to Linux. Loving it ever since. | ||
| Badlionsfan |
Thanks Two seasons, I'll do that when I have time to hook the old pc up again. Do you know if using iTunes Match will transfer my music from my iPhone to the mini? | ||
| Two_seasons |
Should work fine Badlionsfan | ||
| Alfau |
Bill can shove win 8.1 where the sun don't shine! | ||
| Jaimec |
I don't blame Bill for Windows 8+. That's Steve Ballmer's baby (and one of the many things that've contributed to his early retirement, too). | ||
| Froggy |
I don't get the hate for Win8, yea the start menu looks different, but now it works better, it has all the same functionality as before but it adds quite a bit. The searching is phenomenal now, it will also search the web in addition to your PC.   And if you don't want to use the new apps and ecosystem, you don't have too, rest of Windows 8 works basically the same. It is significantly faster too. It took about 15 minutes to get the hang of the new start menu and its new features like live tiles, now I can't go back to a ancient OS like Windows 7, OSX, or Unbuntu. | ||
| Badlionsfan |
Well crap that didn't work. Gonna have to fire up the old rig again sometime. | ||
| Two_seasons |
iTunes Match must be installed on both your iPhone and Macmini to xfer the music files. Using iTunes Match with your old PC will allow you to xfer your old PC music to your new Macmini. I don't even think you'll need the cloud to do it. (Message edited by two_seasons on July 03, 2014) | ||
| Brumbear |
Are you stalkin again Frank | ||
| Jaimec |
I don't see why Microsoft should get a free pass by STEALING an idea Canonical had first. ESPECIALLY since Canonical gets slammed for being "Spyware" for implementing the feature (of course, it was called "Spyware" by RMS and he lives in a "Black and White" world where there are NO shades of grey). | ||
| Pwnzor |
Why should ANYBODY get a free pass for stealing Xerox's idea for a GUI? | ||
| Johnnylunchbox |
"Why should ANYBODY get a free pass for stealing Xerox's idea for a GUI?" Hahaha so true. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I'll take GEM thank you very much.  | ||
| Ourdee |
I like 8.1. I just don't understand why people still use monitors under 30". | ||
| Phelan |
I'm with you Froggy, I like Windows 8, 8.1. Particularly on touchscreens though. As far as Computers, I've built quite a few computers over the last two years, with ~ $6K invested in hardware, though most of it's gone now, since I sold most of it off to buy the Buell I have now. I've had 3 ROG motherboards, 2 AsRock boards, 1 AMD CPU and 4 Intel CPUs, 2400 MHz RAM, RAM with LEDs, 5 SSDs, enumerous HDDs, 1 Nvidia GPU and 3 AMD GPUs including a 7990, not to mention TONs of watercooling gear and cases. | ||
| Jaimec |
I remember GEM. I was also a big fan of DESQView-386. Am I showing my age? | ||
| Dtaylor |
Badlionsfan: Quickest way to do what you want is to copy your iTunes library folder to an external drive. C: drive --> Users --> <your> --> My Music --> iTunes or Libraries --> My Music --> iTunes Then copy the iTunes folder from the external drive to your Mac's Music folder. It will overwrite the existing iTunes library folder, but that's not big deal if you don't have anything in your library yet. If you already have music in your Mac's iTunes library, I'd recommend opening iTunes on your Mac, then drag and drop the iTunes library folder from the external drive onto your Mac's open iTunes window. You might lose some album artwork with this method. good luck, Doug | ||
| Dtaylor |
I should add, transferring stuff this way can get a little more complicated if you have apps and stuff for iPod touch or iPhones, or your Windows iTunes prefs aren't set up to keep everything in the iTunes folder. If that is the case, and you need help, feel free to PM me. |
