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Features
- Transfers files, settings, preferences and more from your PC
- Transfers data at USB 2.0 speeds
- Simple installation CD walks you through setup and cool LED lighting indicates transfer status
- Reliable, seamless transition to your new Mac
Product Description
Making the move from a PC to a Mac computer has never been easier. The Belkin PC-To-Mac Transfer Kit allows you to seamlessly transfer all your important data, including user accounts, email and Internet browser settings as well as photos, movies, music and desktop items.SimilarProduct
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Customer reviews
Great Gadget! 
by .. John B Jones III ()
I had just bought a new Imac all in one. Couldn't figure out how to get my files from my PC to my new Mac. Located this by browsing the internet. Ordered it, followed the directions, and transferred everything I intended without any problems or trouble.
Saved me a Network by .. R. L. McDonald (Japan)
I was previously copying files to a USB Flash Drive and then waiting and waiting and then pulling it out and putting it in the mac and waiting and waiting. It was ok and cheap, but annoying.
Then I found this and decided to try it since it was so cheap. It has worked great ever since. Things take a few minutes to transfer (USB 2 speed) and they are ready to go. You have to install the program on both machines.
There was one review about don't follow the directions. That's something I partially agree with. It said I had to open a program on the mac and then transfer files that way, but you don't. Create a folder on the PC called something like 'transfer' (or anything). Then put whatever you want to move in that folder. Then go to the machine you want the files on (you essentially pull the files to the destination machine) and start the program on each machine. On the destination machine go to the 'custom folder' option about halfway down after you've clicked through all the unnecessary other screens. Drill down until you find the 'transfer' folder on the origin machine and click continue. Then you click start transfer and they start going. My mac puts them in a WindowsPC folder in my documents or somewhere else easy to find.
I was going to set up a home network just to do what this little device does.
Worked fine, but DON'T follow the directions! 
by .. T. Delaney ()
After reading all the reviews I REALLY hesitated about picking this cable up. But, I was so frustrated on moving over about 110gb of pics and everything else I took a shot. The major annoyance was that my PC USB ports were extremely finicky, but once one of them recognized the cable I was good to go.
(Make sure to download ALL the new software updates before you try to transfer!!)
About the 'directions'...don't follow them! Take every folder, document, pics/videos you have embedded and drag them to a temporary folder on your desktop. (Also the cable will NOT recognize other hard drives in your computer...drag them to 'C' and the desktop)
One of the options is to transfer your entire 'desktop', pick that one. It took about 2 hours to transfer it all over. The Cable will drop them into a folder the system creates on your Mac desktop. (A new folder is created every time your transfer)
Here's the link to the Cables' software, manual, and setup instructions:
http://www.belkin.com/uk/support/product/?lid=enu&pid=F4U001ng
Hope this helps!
Worked fine for me on 3 systems by .. cavenewt (Jackson, WY)
I see the other reviews on this page all refer to problems on the PC end.
As a Mac consultant with only a passing familiarity with various flavors of Windows, I was happy to find something that made transferring emails from Windows to the Mac possible (even Outlook!). And, while it's easy to use an external drive to move over easy stuff like exported contact lists and plain documents, I find a lot of Windows users have no clue where on their Windows sytstem stuff is stored. I have a better idea than they do, and I have never used a Windows PC!
So this cable was a godsend. I've used it on 3 or 4 systems now, and only once did it not completely move stuff over (missed about half the contacts somehow, which I figure had something to do with a problem on the PC end, hence my 4 and not 5 star rating.) Not only that, it's smart. Yesterday we used it on a really old PC where the owner had a bunch of pictures in her pictures folder, sorted into named folders; the pix ended up in iPhoto 09 and each named folder had been turned into a named event. Pretty slick.
I was gratified to find that it still works on Snow Leopard too.
Caveats: I DO follow the instructions in the little booklet. This includes making sure you've launched the apps on the Mac at least once, to avoid hitches where some setup dialog might clog up the process. And let each computer's copy of the Belkin software update itself before starting. I have not yet had the problem reported by other reviewers where the PC stopped responding, or didn't recognize the cable (you have to plug the correct end into the correct computer, but the cable has labels on each end.) And allow lots of time. Hours and hours.
It transfers Outlook and Outlook Express mail and contacts. It did not work with Pegasus, apparently an antique Windows mail client. So I'm still looking for a solution there.
Unrecognized device 
by .. TechDabbler (Chicago)
Belkin PC to Mac Transfer Kit (White)Installed the software and then downloaded updated software only to find the PC would not recognize the device. The Belkin web site is most unhelpful, only telling me to reboot the PC as the "fix". Get a portable hard drive and transfer the files manually. At least you end up with a hard drive afterward and not a useless cable.