After months of forcing myself to wait to order a new MacBook, I finally broke down and placed an Order last week for a black one with
2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 2 GB RAM, and 160 GB hard drive. Apple kept its delivery record perfect with me by once again delivering the product to me sooner than its own anticipated arrival date. How many companies do you know that regularly do that? Kudos to Apple!
Last night, I moved all my data, settings, etc. to the new MacBook from my old PowerBook using Apple's Migration Assistant, which is included in Mac OS X Tiger. I previously posted on this topic last September, and I am pleased to report that the "moving" process went as smooth as silk. In fact, even when using my most critical eye, I have NO complaints at all about the process.
It took me less than ten minutes to enter the necessary information and plug in a firewire cable. I then sat back and let two Macs chat and do all the heavy lifting for me. After about an hour and a half of data movement, everything had been shifted over to my new MacBook and the process was done. My network connections, passwords, printer configurations, and everything else was right where I expected them to be, and they worked flawlessly the first time.
Unfortunately, our PC-using friends don't have it so easy. Compare my experience with that of FutureLawyer Rick Georges as described in the post on his blog or in his article, The Agony and the Ecstasy of the Laptop Upgrade on this same subject. Rick spent "two days and nights" copying his files to a new PC, and he compared the process to "getting a root canal." Ouch! So painful and so unnecessary...
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