E-mail migration

I need to know how can I migrate my e-mails from "Windows Mail" to Apple Mail software... my software has ~100 thousand messages. Every time i try to import them (to Gmail, Outlook or whatever), i give up because it takes too much time to accomplish this... weeks actually.
I want to buy my first macbook, but before the final decision, i need to know if i can be successfull doing this...
Can anyone help me?

Well, as far as I can see it, you have two potential issues. Exporting from Windows Mail, and importing into Mac Mail (or some other mail client). Have you successfully exported the information from your Windows Mail client yet? If you haven't already done that yet, you might want to consider exporting in "smaller chunks" and not trying to export the whole thing as a single export file.
When you are ready to import into the client on the Mac side, it will work much better if you ar eimportign smaller groups rather than trying to import everything all at once. Apple Mail will import mail from several well known mail application formats (Apple Mail, Netscape/Mozilla, Thunderbird, Eudora, and "mbox format"). On my WIndows side I had migrated 15-20 email accounts from Forte Agent into Thunderbird, and I used Thunderbird for MacOS and for Windows for a long time (since they both used the same format files).
I did a quick Google search and found this like: http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-420478.html on how to migrate form Windows Mail to Mac Mail. It may offer you some assistance as well.

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