Transferring Lightroom to different computer(including use of NAS)

I think some of the elements of my question has been answered in various parts of this forum, but I haven't found a simple, complete answer.
I have Lightroom 3 installed on PC running Windows 7. All of the photos in the catalogue are on the local drive.
I have a NAS drive which has backup of photos but is not used with Lightroom.
I have a Macbook Air which a clean install of Lightroom 4 and no photos.
I will be giving away my PC and will clean up the disk. Before I do this, I want to move all of the photos from the hard disk and the associated Lightroom catalog.
I don't have sufficient memory on the current Macbook Air for all of the photos so I will need to use an external drive.
The question is what is the simplest way to move photos/LR catalog from the old PC?
Can I temporarily "park" the LR catalog on my NAS drive and then simply transfer to the new external drive? Can I keep the LR catalog on the NAS drive and use the photos that are stored on that drive, thereby saving space on my external drive and Macboor Air.
Grateful for suggestions, keeping things as simple as possible.
many thanks
kerry

Hi kerry,
I would first move all your images from your local PC-drive inside PC's Lightroom to their future storage destination, which will fit to your intended set-up with the Macbook Air (external drive or NAS, does not matter).
It is always wise to create one common parent folder per storage drive for all images contained underneath.
Then you back up your PC-LR-catalog one last time including all LR settings and plugins and shut the PC down.
Copy this catalog-backup to your Macbook Air. It must be on a non-network-drive. If you have space on your SSD you will like its performance. But you can put it on the external drive as well, if it has a fast connection to MacbookAir. Catalog on NAS is not possible, but images on NAS perfectly are.
When you copy the catalog over to MacbookAir, plus the LR settings in their different Mac-specific locations, you just open this catalog.
Maybe you need to reconnect the parent folder in the catalog, if Mac is adressing this storage volume differently than Win7, but that is all you need to do.
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