Possible to make a disk image of my mac?

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I want to make an exact copy of my disk image so I can restore it onto a different laptop. I'm getting rid of the one I have, and want to take everything with me exactly as it is.
 
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Well, with Disk utility there's a tab named...restore I think (i'm not at my mac). Though I'm not sure if it works while booted into OS X, its better to boot with the OS X install DVD and create it from there. In that same tab there's also a restore image option so you can safely transfer your system to another.
 
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There's going to be a week or two inbetween having the macs, so I won't have them both at the same time.
 
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Well you will need an external drive to transfer that image between the two macs then...
 
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That I have, I'm just not sure if I need to buy some sort of program or something.
 
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No separate software needed. One thing though. Please don't encrypt your disk image. And keep a backup of your important stuff.
 

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