If you are thinking of retiring your old PC and get a brand new Mac during this vacation but you are still not entirely sure about the change it means. We will help you decide with these simple steps that you must take into account before carrying out it.
First of all, also mention that the change involved is not drastic at all and especially if you use the equipment for tasks of office automation, multimedia and web browsingGetting used to the new environment is much easier than it seems a priori.
Still recommended get familiar with OS X before if you already have in mind to make the change.
Thus if you have an Apple Store or authorized reseller nearbyThe easiest way is to go and do a little digging in the system, asking any questions to the employees who are nearby to resolve doubts.
Of course, although it is not drastic, it is not advisable to change our equipment if we depend on it professionally, since if we are in a busy time, changing systems can be overwhelming.
Applications to use
Unless you run Windows on Mac with BootCamp or through software that virtualizes itYou must remember that Windows applications cannot be run on Mac, so you should find alternatives on Mac.
However some suites like Adobe Creative Cloud allow switching applications between Mac and Windows with the same license, unfortunately this cannot be extrapolated to other options.
Data migration
The next most important step will be to take our data stored on the PC to the new Mac, so we will have to know what to do to carry out this migration.
Apple has documentation to do it and it is more than recommended that we take a look and know how to use the migration tools before launching ourselves to dump information.
Clicking on this link you will be able to access the information and it is important that you keep it safe since you have to follow the steps carefully, paying attention to what will move and what will not.
An alternative would be to make an appointment at an Apple Store and have them do the backup dump operation for you.
Keyboard shortcuts
There are certain changes here, although it really only changes that we will go from pressing CTRL to CMD in many shortcuts. Here are some of the most important ones:
- Command + C - Copy
- Command + V - Paste
- Command + A - Select all
- Command + W - Close the window
- Command + Q - Exit the application
One of the curiosities that most caught my attention on my switch to Mac, it was the fact that the option to display context menus with the right mouse button was not enabled. In this way, if we do not enable it in System Preferences or press CTRL while clicking, the system will not recognize the click.
Pull through
There is no CTRL + ALT + DEL option here in OS X. In its place is CMD + ALT + ESC to run a window that will allow us to force the exit of any application that hangs and that is giving us problems.
Data backup
Although Mac computers with OS X are quite safe and reliable, of course, they are not perfect. For this very reason it is important use Time Machine, a feature integrated for a long time in the different versions of OS X and that will help us to recover files, folders or even the image of the complete system at a certain moment if we have major problems with the system.
Where could I activate the Time Machine?
And another question, I have two hard drives in NTFS format. If I put the option to migrate data, would all the data be transferred to the mac to later be able to format the disks in exFat format? And if so, how can I choose to migrate?