at the risk of sounding like an idiot....

[emmasmommy]

sooo, my birthday is next month and darik has been asking a lot of questions about 'if' we switched to a mac. i'm TRYING not to get my hopes up, but it's not working so well

i have a few questions though, and yes, i know i could prob google but i like personal answers better

i know i'd have to change cs5 but would all my files and photos and everything work the same? like, my ehd would be fine, all the files on this laptop, i'd just have to transfer over....right?

school a girl on the transition, please

 

[Nettio]

Since CS6 is out, you'd have to upgrade to CS6 first before you'll be able to switch. Or you can buy an new education version of CS6 since the upgrade and education prices are usually about the same.

All the files on your computer will be fine. But Depending on how your EHD is formatted though, you may only be able to read the files on it, not write/save anything new to it. In that case you'd need to move the files off the EHD and reformt it for Mac, then move them back - which depending on the size of your EHD may or may not be simple to do since you need another drive large enough to hold all that data. It can be a pain but a Mac makes it worth it!

Ack, sorry for the typos, I'm on my phone.

 

[taracotta7]

^^^^Exactly what Lynnette said^^^^