Easy moving to another Mac

Apple made it re­ally easy to mi­grate from one Mac to an­other Mac. I just got my MacBook Pro re­cently and was dread­ing hav­ing to re­in­stall all my ap­pli­ca­tions, but I didn’t have to. When I turned on the MBP for the first time, the Setup Assistant asked if I wanted to trans­fer every­thing from an­other Mac. I picked that op­tion and fol­lowed the instructions.

All I had to do was put my old Mac (a MacBook non-​​Pro) into Target Disk Mode (boot while hold­ing down T key) and con­nect the two com­put­ers with a FireWire ca­ble. The trans­fer took about an hour or so, and when it was done, the new Mac had every­thing that was on the old Mac, in­clud­ing all my set­tings. It was ba­si­cally my old com­puter in a new body.

The com­puter came with iL­ife ’08, which I did have to in­stall. Can’t wait to try out the new iMovie!

By the way, I named the com­puter Silvia, af­ter the Nissan Silvia. Now I need to find a Silvia badge.