Christian Behrens
Supporting Actor
Yeah, I'm not surprised to hear that Adobe CS would not work, their installer is known to be the worst in the Mac market. Same goes for bootcamp, of course. Migration Assistent will not move your Windows bootcamp installation either.
Those two items aside, I'd wager it would still save you considerable time to use Migration Assistent and only re-install CS.
Dave,
I'm not sure where you look for drives, but FW is not typically double the price of USB drives. However, FW800 *is* more than double the speed compared to USB2. What matters is the sustained data rate, and USB2's nominal 480Mb/s is only good for bursts, not over a longer period of time.
If I didn't have already an easy to open case with all the interfaces, I'd get one of the docks that OWC offers. This way you can just buy bare drives and don't have to worry about enclosures.
-Christian
Those two items aside, I'd wager it would still save you considerable time to use Migration Assistent and only re-install CS.
Dave,
I'm not sure where you look for drives, but FW is not typically double the price of USB drives. However, FW800 *is* more than double the speed compared to USB2. What matters is the sustained data rate, and USB2's nominal 480Mb/s is only good for bursts, not over a longer period of time.
If I didn't have already an easy to open case with all the interfaces, I'd get one of the docks that OWC offers. This way you can just buy bare drives and don't have to worry about enclosures.
-Christian