When you purchase a new Mac you have the option of transferring data from your previous Mac to the new one in the welcome setup. By all means do it if you are working with the same processor. Do not use it if you are moving from a Power PC chip to an Intel based Mac. You will be able to migrate your Hard Drive from your G5 to Intel machine, but it will not warn you that it is a big no no. Of course I’m here to relay that mistake so you can make the move easy…I mean easier than how I found out.

There is a great article in Apple Support that helps G5 and earlier macs make the move over to Intel macs. You will be able to move all your movie, pictures, itunes and documents over with ease. With this document it tells you how to move over your settings and info for your address book, mail, ical and other data that is important. The hard part is re-installing all of your applications and re-registering the applications. I hope you have all the documents handy because it is time consuming. But once you make that move you will be happy and ready for a smoother and faster editing experience.

My G5 could not be fixed so I purchased the baseline iMac 21.5″ 3.06GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, it is fast, the screen is bright and very affordable.