Jason Hook's shiny new blog...... :: Migration Assistant rocks

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I recently bought a second hand Macbook Pro (the machine I should have bought in the first place but couldn't afford) and wanted to move my files from my Macbook to the new machine.*

If I were a PC (nothing against them I own a few) then I'd have been locating files copying them across the network, reinstalling applications and activating them

But no, I'm mostly a Mac these days and so all I had to do was start Migration assistant on both machines, tell one about the other and go to bed. In the morning Macbook Pro had all of my documents and wait for it applications too. Admittedly some of those applications needed activating afterward but my new Mac looked a lot like the old one only faster and backlit at night How cool is Migration Assistant?

"Cool as der cucumber, Johnny" - Wulf (Strontium Dog)

Wonder if Windows 7 has anything like it, if not maybe Windows 8 will be my idea

* Not sure if the seller would want to be publicly identified but both of them are fantastic people

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1 - My household has had two Macs for six months now. But I'm still so entrenched in PC thinking that it would never have occurred to me to use the Migration Assistant to move to a new Mac, even though I was aware that it existed. There must be a world of PC to Mac converts like me who don't pick up on the fact that things are even easier in the Mac world than they already realise.

Posted by Anthony Holmes At 23:38:03 On 29/10/2009 | - Website - |

2 - Yes it came as a surprise to me that I could migrate so much of my old environment. It's not perfect but pretty close. I suspect we all get entrenched in the Windows way of doing things, 18 months of Mac ownership and I'm still discovering nifty features like services.

Posted by Jason At 16:55:12 On 09/11/2009 | - Website - |