{"id":1396,"date":"2009-04-20T07:38:49","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T14:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=1396"},"modified":"2009-04-20T07:38:49","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T14:38:49","slug":"the-fast-easy-way-to-upgrade-your-mac-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2009\/04\/20\/the-fast-easy-way-to-upgrade-your-mac-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"The fast, easy way to upgrade your Mac hardware"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Aviva watched my laptop spin yet another beachball of doom and told me to get a new, more powerful laptop.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t have to be told twice!<\/p>\n

So I made an appointment and bought new computers for Aviva and I.\u00c2\u00a0 She got a 20″ iMac, I got a new MacBook Pro 15″.<\/p>\n

When I finally had time to install the computers, I found that they had provided the wrong FireWire cables – I needed a 6 pin FW400 connector to a new MacBook Pro 4 pin FW800 connector.\u00c2\u00a0 The local Apple Store was out, but they called around and found a couple at the local Fry’s – now that’s customer service!<\/p>\n

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The last time I upgraded, the setup assistant didn’t do a very good job of copying “me” over to the new laptop.\u00c2\u00a0 So I took a slightly different course this time.<\/p>\n

I use both Time Machine and SuperDuper!<\/a> for backups – Time Machine gives me incremental restores while SuperDuper! provides a complete, bootable backup each week.<\/p>\n

So this time I ran SuperDuper! Then, I plugged that disk into my new Mac and turned it on.\u00c2\u00a0 When it came time to pick what to do, I told the new Mac to restore everything from the SuperDuper! backup disk.<\/p>\n

And it worked!\u00c2\u00a0 I did get an error message at the end of the restore, but it worked great!\u00c2\u00a0 The only custom things I needed to do was to re-apply my license for Little Snitch (which I use to reduce call-backs from software on my computer) and reinstall the printer driver for our all-in-one printer \/ scanner.\u00c2\u00a0 I also had to reset my file sharing preferences.<\/p>\n

That was painless.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Aviva watched my laptop spin yet another beachball of doom and told me to get a new, more powerful laptop.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t have to be told twice! So I made an appointment and bought new computers for Aviva and I.\u00c2\u00a0 She got a 20″ iMac, I got a new MacBook Pro 15″. When I finally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[512,2372,513],"class_list":["post-1396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-apple-store","tag-mac","tag-setup-assistant"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t