Welcome to the new platform Mac addicts!
We had a conversation over the past week about whether Migration Assistant was an effective
method of transferring data from an older laptop to a newer one despite the fact they may be
different models and sizes.
I had made a decision last week that I would not even attempt to use Migration Assistant for
fear that it would do a lackluster, incomplete job.
However, upon purchasing my new MBP 17" yesterday afternoon and turning it on for the first
time, I sort of became "tempted" to play Dr. Frankenstein and test to see if the feature really worked.
So, using a firewire cable (with an adapter on one end for FW800), I connected both my laptops.
Simply, you press the "L" key and reboot your source laptop and both suddenly go into a firewire
state where they are communicating with each other.
The process of porting over about 200GB of data took only 40 minutes. The assistant wrongly
stated that it was in its final minute of completion at least 10 minutes before it actually did.
I rebooted my computer and hoped for the best.
Well, surprise, I had the surprise of a lifetime. Everything on the new MBP 17" was exactly
as it had been on the 15". Every single installed program (and there were 2 dozen of them)
were all there. The laptop immediately connected to the password protected network.
Essentially, Migration Assistant saved me hours of work.
Now, I will admit that there were one or two programs that wanted the registration entered
again. One was Photoshop, the other Snapz X Pro. Other than that, it seemed all my other
programs retained their registration keys.
Yuh know, I continue to be amazed by Macs and the things that they can do effectively.
I had little faith that Migration Assistant would work but its probably because I still think like
a Windows PC owner. You could never do that on a Windows PC as effectively.
We had a conversation over the past week about whether Migration Assistant was an effective
method of transferring data from an older laptop to a newer one despite the fact they may be
different models and sizes.
I had made a decision last week that I would not even attempt to use Migration Assistant for
fear that it would do a lackluster, incomplete job.
However, upon purchasing my new MBP 17" yesterday afternoon and turning it on for the first
time, I sort of became "tempted" to play Dr. Frankenstein and test to see if the feature really worked.
So, using a firewire cable (with an adapter on one end for FW800), I connected both my laptops.
Simply, you press the "L" key and reboot your source laptop and both suddenly go into a firewire
state where they are communicating with each other.
The process of porting over about 200GB of data took only 40 minutes. The assistant wrongly
stated that it was in its final minute of completion at least 10 minutes before it actually did.
I rebooted my computer and hoped for the best.
Well, surprise, I had the surprise of a lifetime. Everything on the new MBP 17" was exactly
as it had been on the 15". Every single installed program (and there were 2 dozen of them)
were all there. The laptop immediately connected to the password protected network.
Essentially, Migration Assistant saved me hours of work.
Now, I will admit that there were one or two programs that wanted the registration entered
again. One was Photoshop, the other Snapz X Pro. Other than that, it seemed all my other
programs retained their registration keys.
Yuh know, I continue to be amazed by Macs and the things that they can do effectively.
I had little faith that Migration Assistant would work but its probably because I still think like
a Windows PC owner. You could never do that on a Windows PC as effectively.
