When I purchased my MacBook Pro a year ago, I had originally intended it to be my portable editing facility. In the current configuration, it has more than enough power to edit DV or HDV in the field with an attached G2 FW800 drive and a Sony HDV deck. My HP Pavilion DV8000 battery is also a 17-inch system, but weighs quite a bit more than the MacBook Pro. Little did I know that midway through this fall semester I would get extremely tired of lugging two laptops to work with me so I could get class work done on the Mac (thanks to Keynote being an awesome app) and my regular writing (DVICE.com, Major Spoilers, Coolness Roundup) on the PC.
Around November I decided to make the migration from using the PC laptop to using the Mac exclusively for everything I do. For the most part I have mirrored everything from the PC to the Mac, with two exceptions; Adobe After Effects (needs to be updated to run on Leopard), and my e-mail. I like Mac Mail a lot, but considering I have hundreds of contacts on the PC, moving them to the Mac as easily as possible is/was one of those final frontier things.
Of course Microsoft and Apple are never going to make it easy to migrate from one system to the other, and my contact list is no exception. Using the standard export/import features on both applications was not a success. Either no data would import, or about half the contact info would import, but not in the correct information cell.
Fortunately, an hour of searching the web for a short way revealed the answer – use Thunderbird as an in between step.
Take the jump for the step by step and save yourself the trouble if you are moving.
Specifications:
- Screen size: 17 inch
- Processor: AMD Turion64 – 1.8 GHz
- Video Card: ATI Radeon Xpress 200M
- RAM: 512 MB
- Hard Drive: 80 GB
- Operating System: Windows XP
- Optical Drive: DVD+/-RW/R & CW-RW Combo
- Built-in Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN
The HP Pavilion dv8000 battery comes with BrightView screen technology, integrated Altec Lansing speakers and a remote control and pre-loaded Inter-Video software. User don’t even have to wait for the machine to boot with the provision of HP QuickPlay allowing the user to jump straight into both movies and music.
At the heart of the HP Pavilion dv8000 lies the AMD Turion 64 ML-32, offering wireless connectivity on the move. The model also comes with an ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M graphics, 128Mb of dedicated video memory and 1Gb RAM.
The laptop is also fitted with an 80Gb hard-disc drive and comes with a 6-in-1 digital media reader.
If you can do without these kinds of perks, check out the Presario family models, which are otherwise similar and start at lower price points.
The Pavilion line’s main attractions are the thin-and-light dv1000, the first HP laptop to feature an Intel Core Duo processor; the midsize dv4000 and dv5000; and the desktop-replacement hp pavilion dv8000 battery, which features options such as Windows XP Media Center, a PCI Express card TV tuner, and a dual-lamp display.
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