Belkin Switch-to-Mac Cable automatically switches you to Mac, gives you a high-five

PC-to-Mac USB file-transfer cables and migration utilities have been out for a while, but Belkin's out today with a new take on the idea it says makes the transition "as seamless as possible." We're guessing that has more to do with the Switch-to-Mac Cable's bundled software than the dongle itself -- Belkin's custom Migration Assistant (not the OS X assistant) automatically transfers your media, files, and internet prefs, leaving you free to try on mock turtlenecks and practice your air of quiet superiority. Should be out soon for $50.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 12th 2008 9:46PM]

That's a Lattitude connected. Now that MBP has herpes.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 12th 2008 10:22PM]

**cough**
buy/make crossover cable, give both machines a static IP (say 10.0.0.1, and 10.0.0.2) and shared folders on windows, open folders on mac, transfer data.
**cough**

yeah whatever, belkin enjoy your profits off the uneducated.

[abilstein Posted Nov 12th 2008 11:04PM]

This is a total waste of money. Like the other poster said, just connect the two computers with a crossover cable and boom, you're done. There, I just saved you $50.

Here, I'll save you even more money. Stop going to the grocery store. It's a total rip off. Just grow your own food! There, I just saved you some more money.

And don't let me catch you wearing another pair of Dockers. Go to the fabric store, buy a needle and thread, and get to work. Anyone who actually *buys* clothing is a tool! You guys are lucky I'm here.

I'd give you some more tips, but I've got a date with a Flowbee.

[Valicore Posted Nov 13th 2008 12:19AM]

Damn people. As some of you work in the high tech field, I'd expect you'd realize that once you reach a certain pay rate and level of responsibility, your time and and a products ease of use is worth more than the cable and software themselves. That's why so many people are still moving to Macs and willing to pay the premium. If nothing else, they know macs will do the things Apple says they do quickly and well. Not everyone wants to go change their IP settings and find the write software and blah blah blah, they just want it to work. Not everyone loves to sit in front of their computer all day trying to jerry-rig a solution to beat "the man." Whoever or whatever the hell that is.

[nevember Posted Nov 13th 2008 12:39AM]

Thank you. I mean this sincerely.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2008 2:26AM]

why don't they make a cable to switch from mac to pc? oh, no one's ever done that.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2008 5:43AM]

I have my doubts that this has happened much in the recent past. The release of Windows 95 saw a major migration from the Mac to the PC since at that time Apple was "out to lunch" but currently there is little to no incentive to move. Most PC games appear to available for the current consoles and more PC applications are seeing Mac releases than ever (heck, even Adobe brought the likes of Premiere back following the switch to Intel processors). While Windows 7 will probably stem the flow of users to the Mac, I can't see it being enough to encourage switchers like myself back. The next round of OS wars looks like being a score-draw.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2008 3:18PM]

Given that the holiest-than-thou Born-Again Switchers are the sort of people who're too dumb to be let near a Windows machine, and by 'better' it means that the Apples pander to their inability to grasp technology better, it makes sense to make the transition as neuron-free as possible. Good job Belkin!

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2008 10:49AM]

Epic Fail. Any notice the photoshop done here? 17" MacBook Pro yes but the wire plugged in under the speaker? Cool

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2008 11:08AM]

the only thing under the speaker is where the lock goes. Also on that Dell its plugged into nothing at all.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 13th 2008 1:33PM]

To Clarify.
This cable is already out and has been at BestBuy for over a month now.
Its a full PC-mac migration. So it transfer files AND settings. Wallpapers, emails, favorites, files, etc. This is actually a very attractive offer for people switching to the mac. Its easy, faster than external drive, and cost effective.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 14th 2008 10:46PM]

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[jwdav Posted Nov 14th 2008 7:44PM]

I have to assume the software includes Outlook to Apple Mail transfer, something that requires a $10 program called O2M right now. O2M works well, but it does kind of depend upon the PC user being able to present a clean structure to the program, or be capable of organising it before migration.

If they have software that can move Outlook and documents over even if the PC user has a complete mess on the PC, it would be worth the $50.

Plus you can't exactly use a normal male to male USB cable to move info between two computers. USB does not have FireWire's capability to connect two hosts on the same bus and it doesn't support TCP/IP even if it did . The capability to migrate from computers that don't have GB Ethernet or FireWire could be useful.

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 14th 2008 11:57PM]

Its called all macs have smart ethernet cards. What does this mean? You plug a standard cat5 between your PC and your mac and they are networked. Yes you read that right, no patch cable required. I use a gigabit ethernet card in my pc to connect to the built in gigabit ethernet in my macbook and with just a standard ethernet cable.

So easy. Much faster. This is lame

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 15th 2008 2:11AM]

Lars----

I'm calling BS. You obviously don't know what you're talking about. The first Apple digital camera (QuickTake 100) cost $750, not thousands of dollars. The later editions were the QuickTake 150 ($700) and the QuickTake 200 ($600). These were some of the very first digital cameras available. As usual, Apple leading the way just like they did with the personal computer, 5.25" floppy drive, mouse, GUI, SCSI, laser printing/desktop publishing, 3.5" floppy, color matching, built-in networking (AppleTalk), built-in CD-ROMs, PDAs (Newton), on-line communities (AppleLink, created to connect their dealers, later for general populace, eventually becomes AOL), popularized USB, invented FireWire, HyperCard (which directly influenced Tim Berners-Lee to develop the WWW- on a NeXT computer, Job's other computer company), hard drive music players, legal on-line music/TV/movie downloads, multitouch, App Store for phone apps, etc. And just today I saw that Google is claiming that Apple is leading the way for adopting IPv6. So go ahead and whine about Apple products and they will keep on leading the industry into the future. Like they say, Apple is MS's R&D department.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 23rd 2009 11:20AM]

I was wondering if Belkin makes a Switch-Back-From-Mac cable for all the frustrated PC users who switched to Mac. ;-) LOL