How do I transfer old photos to the newer computer?

I am trying to transfer my older pictures from my older computer that isn't getting much use these days to the newer one that I use more.
My older computer is a Acer IBM laptop, I used that computer like ages ago, but I'm hardly using it much now, but I wanted to back up some of my pictures I had on there to the newer computer which is a apple MacBook Pro laptop, I am just wondering what would be the best way to transfer the pictures and videos over to the newer computer, I want to get some of my older pictures put into iPhoto on the newer computer, and have them backed up. Should I just try to back everything up on CD discs or how should I do this, if anyone got any suggestions for me, please let me know, this is a project I wanted to do and get it over with in a short amount of time, so I need to figure out how to do this, what should I do, thanks.

You can do things easily over networks.
Plug the Acer laptop into your network.. (using ethernet is much better to move large files). Plug the MBP also into the network by ethernet.. and even turn off its wireless.. the less wireless is involved the better for everyone.
Share the folder (directory) with the photos to the network in the Acer.. or if they are scattered all over the place.. move the files to the public access directory on the Acer.
From Finder in the Mac locate the Acer share.. and type in whatever user name and password is required.. this is where life can be a bit exciting.. using identically named users with identical passwords on both machines can make this easier.. otherwise just look up networking pc and mac.. it is not hard.
Then you can copy the files directly from PC to Mac.
Burning to CD is long process.. and does your MBP have a CD player?? None of the new ones do.
Otherwise use a USB hard drive formatted FAT32 which is the only common file format.. and hence will give issues if the larger movie files are over 4GB limit.. copy the files to the disk in windows then plug the disk into the Mac and copy them off again.

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