Restoring from Time Machine

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Whoever said Macs rarely fail, but when they do its catastrophic! had it exactly right.

My iMac is/was over 6 years old... two years ago the Hd went south, and I put in a new one, but 2 weeks ago the logic board let the smoke escape so the old Motorola base iMac is off to the Computer gods. I checked out the new machines, but finally settled on a Refurbished Core 3i 21.5 that had an upgraded video/memory card.

But now I have a dilemma. When the Hard drive went, I purchased a 1 TB external drive in addition to replacing the internal, so that EVERYTHING would be backed up(including the OS which I think couldn't get past 10.5). I understand that when the new machine arrives, on Power up it will ask if I want to transfer everything from my old iMac. Since the logic board is toast, and it won't boot up connecting the two iMacs won't work. But, I do have the TimeMachine back up on that external drive.

So far so good, however, the new iMac will have the latest greatest OS X version( 10.8.xxx), and I don't want to fall back to the 10.5.8 version that my old iMac
was running under. Is there a prompt on start-up that says "Leave the stinking OS alone?"

I don't think I can find all the DVD's for iWork/iLife yada yadda... I know that I had MicroSoft office suite... Word and Excel were all I ever used, but I also had the Mac versions Pen/numbers etc.

Ok All this to ask, do I need to take both iMacs to Tyson's Corner Apple store and have the wizards of MacGeek make the new iMac look like the old one?


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Migration Assistant should do all this for you from the TM backup without the older version of the OS, JUST your personal documents and settings.
 
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Documents are the least of my concern... but what about all the applications that I have purchased over the past 6 years? Stuff like Microsoft Office with Word, Excel, power point etc. Which I hate but need for business. Then there's the applications that mimick MO like Apples suit of Pen, numbers, the PP clone, etc. I don't remember how many applications are there, and the concern is that without doing a DVD re-install I will lose these.

Seems to me Time Machine and back-up may or maynot do what I want, which is a carbon copy of what I had without reverting to the old OS 10.5.8 which might not be all that bad... I mean what does 10.6 really buy me?

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