Moving from PC to Mac Pro

Dear All,
Having switched my wife’s laptop for an Imac last year I am now considering switching my desktop to a mac pro. I love using the imac and have just finished my first dvd using imovie and idvd (family video for grandparents). The process was so smooth and convinced me to go down the mac route for myself.
However I have some concerns and would be very grateful if someone could help answer them. I will put them in bullet points for ease:-
1. I have a cable modem from Virgin (UK) connected to a linksys wireless router and from there by cable to my PC by Ethernet cable. Will I be able to have the same set up with the mac pro?
2. I have a 24inch display from HP. It has DVI, VGA and HDMI inputs. Will I be able to use this with the mac pro?
3. I am a photographer and the above screen is calibrated for colour using an eye one. Will I be able to calibrate the screen when connected to a mac pro?
4. As I said I am a photographer and currently have 4 external hard drives (3 usb2 and 1 Fire wire) connected to my PC. Will I be able to just unplug from the PC and replug into the mac pro and see my files?
5. I have an iphone and extensive itunes library. Is it possible to switch these across to the mac pro without problems and loss of data?
6. Finally, My pc has 4gb ram and a dual core 2.66mhz processor running vista. I assume there will be a dramatic speed increase with the mac pro?
I think that is all my major questions and concerns for now. As I said any help appreciated.
Best regards
Josh

Hi Josh,
1. should be no problem. I have a similar setup (with a Netgear instead of the Linksys) and since in Germany another provider.
2. Should work quite fine using the DVI-connection since both the GT120 and the 4870 come with a DVI-port.
3. To my knowledge the Eye One includes a OSX-compatible version of their calibration software and the hardware is compatible.
4. Mac OSX can read and write to/from harddisk that use the FAT32 file system. Also OSX can read from harddisks that use the NTFS file system, but can only write to them with additional software like NTFS-3G or Paragons NTFS for MAc.
5. Should be no problem, although I am not that knowledgeable with it. I always had my iTunes library with Mac and besides only have self-made mp3s from my CD-library.
6. Very likely. The Mac Pro is what they say "Beauty outside. Beast inside."
Hope it helps
Stefan

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