HT4619 transfer pictures between macs

got a new mac and want to transfer pics easyest way

'Best"? in what way?
Do you want the fastest? easiest? cheapest?
Is this a one-time thing? or something you expect to do frequently/repeatedly?
How much data are we talking about? kilobytes? megabytes? gigabytes?
In all honesty the easiest way is via a USB drive - stick it in the iBook, copy the files to it, remove and insert in the iMac. Done.
Maybe easier than that is to boot the iBook in Target Disk Mode and attach it to the iMac via a FireWire cable (assuming your iMac has FireWire ports - you don't way which model you have). In this way the iBook will just mount on the iMac's desktop and you can copy the files at will.
Stepping up the complexity chain a little you could enable file sharing on the iBook and mount its disk over the network on the iMac (or vice versa). This is probably the slowest option but that might not matter if you only have a small amount of data to transfer.
There are other ways, too.

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Do you want the fastest? easiest? cheapest?
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How much data are we talking about? kilobytes? megabytes? gigabytes?
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