MacBook Pro and the wonder that is the Migration Assistant

Friday, July 4th, 2008

My MacBook Pro came back from repair having suffered a ‘logic board failure’. I don’t know what that is, but it sounds serious and ghastly. Thanks to the wonderful Migration Assistant in OS X, it took me all of half an hour to get my applications, email, settings and documents back onto the machine via a FireWire link-up with the iMac. Windows was never easy in that regard.


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2 comments on “MacBook Pro and the wonder that is the Migration Assistant”

4Avatars v0.3.1 TLJ Says:
July 4th, 2008 at 11:48 am

Wow. Something that actually works and is clearly designed for consumer ease! I want a Mac…

4Avatars v0.3.1 Spicy Cauldron Says:
July 5th, 2008 at 8:23 am

Yeah, Migration Assistant is one of the coolest things on a Mac. I got all my settings and serials with no need to reinstall anything at all, and no need to reinput all those tortuous modem passwords, site passwords, etc. It didn’t matter whether the apps came with the Apple machines as standard, or were installed by me. I was just able, after half an hour, to use the laptop in exactly the same ways as the iMac, confident that all my stuff was on there, where I wanted it. Fantastic and often underrated aspect of Mac OS X in reviews… x

 

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