Transferring Info from Old Dell M1530 to New MBP

Does anyone have a tutorial or link on how to transfer the files on my old PC to my new MBP?

This will be my first Apple, so I'm not familiar with the OS, file storage system, etc.

Stuff I'd like to transfer:
Firefox favorites, Office documents, Notepad documents, photo's, MP3's from Window's Media Player, Kindle books and saved emails in Gmail and Compuserve.

I'll run the defrag, malware and antivirus programs on the PC first.

Thanks for your advice!!

Trvlngnrs

 

Your Dell has Firewire, I believe.

I wonder if you could use Target Disk Mode on your new Mac, and then use the Dell running HFS+ for Windows and a firewire cable to push files from the Dell over to a directory on your Mac.

Apple says the Host Computer has to have OS 8.6 or higher. But I wonder if that is just for for file system interoperability, which the HFS+ for Windows would function to do.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661

 

Apple explains some things here...
Switch 101: Migrate Your Files or your Windows System

you may want to get familiar with these two pages of info
Apple - Support - Switch 101
Apple - Support - Mac 101

basically transferring documents is just copying the files from on to another... through whatever means you have.. over a network, to an external drive... Dropbox.com (which I love) or whatever.

To get Firefox favorites, just go in Firefox and export your favorites to a file, then move that file across, and import them from that file into your Firefox on the Mac

 

Thanks for the advice and links.

I'm transferring my photos to an external hard drive now. Can you tell me where Windows Media player stores the MP3 files, so I can transfer then to the hard drive? I looked under Windows Explorer: Computer/OS(C /Program Files/Windows Media Player, but they aren't there.

If possible, I'd like to get all the titles, artists and other stuff I've typed to identify the songs transferred too. Do you know it iTunes will recognize it? A lot of the files are Bible teachings in which I had to enter the info by hand. I'd hate to have to do all that again. There is probably about 1,000 of them.

Thanks,
Trvlngnrs

 

Your songs are stored in your "My Music" folder. Get to it by clicking "Start" then clicking "music."

The data you added (known as "metadata") is in the mp3 files. When you move them to your Mac, it should recognize the data as well in iTunes.

Data transfer is a tedious process, but fairly easy. Have fun!