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Apple Computing Products:
macOS - Notebook Hardware
Moving HD from Macbook white to Macbook Unibody
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<blockquote data-quote="pigoo3" data-source="post: 895629" data-attributes="member: 56379"><p>Awesome, awesome, awesome...glad it worked!</p><p></p><p>My only real concern was that (since I'm assuming the Unibody laptop is newer)...that the newer laptop might have some newer features...that were not present in the older MacBook.</p><p></p><p>One example might be the track pad. The older MacBook may not have the 3 & 4 finger gesturing that the newer Unibody probably has.</p><p></p><p>But since both laptops were not too much difference in age...and maybe both had the same version of OS on the hard drives...everything was fine.</p><p></p><p>I have found that when I did the same thing as you (swapping hard drives) from one computer to another...that features that were not available in the older computer (because it was an older computer)...all of a sudden were available in the newer computer...from an OS software perspective. </p><p></p><p>Assuming both hard drives had the same version of the operating system on them.</p><p></p><p>I'm primarily talking about features or options that are available via the "System Preferences" programs.</p><p></p><p>I think that when the OS is installed...the OS programs contain more info than an older machine needs...and this "extra" info is for features that are available on newer computers. So if you put the hard drive from the older computer into a newer computer (same OS version)...then all of a sudden those features are "activated"...since the OS software "detects" them as being present in the new computer.</p><p></p><p>This may be why on the initial startup of your laptop that took a bit longer than usual...since the OS was detecting the hardware of the newer Unibody laptop.</p><p></p><p>In any case I'm glad the swap went fine. My one suggestion would be to run "Software Update" on the Unibody laptop just to make sure it is completely up to date.</p><p></p><p>Congrats again,</p><p></p><p>- Nick</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pigoo3, post: 895629, member: 56379"] Awesome, awesome, awesome...glad it worked! My only real concern was that (since I'm assuming the Unibody laptop is newer)...that the newer laptop might have some newer features...that were not present in the older MacBook. One example might be the track pad. The older MacBook may not have the 3 & 4 finger gesturing that the newer Unibody probably has. But since both laptops were not too much difference in age...and maybe both had the same version of OS on the hard drives...everything was fine. I have found that when I did the same thing as you (swapping hard drives) from one computer to another...that features that were not available in the older computer (because it was an older computer)...all of a sudden were available in the newer computer...from an OS software perspective. Assuming both hard drives had the same version of the operating system on them. I'm primarily talking about features or options that are available via the "System Preferences" programs. I think that when the OS is installed...the OS programs contain more info than an older machine needs...and this "extra" info is for features that are available on newer computers. So if you put the hard drive from the older computer into a newer computer (same OS version)...then all of a sudden those features are "activated"...since the OS software "detects" them as being present in the new computer. This may be why on the initial startup of your laptop that took a bit longer than usual...since the OS was detecting the hardware of the newer Unibody laptop. In any case I'm glad the swap went fine. My one suggestion would be to run "Software Update" on the Unibody laptop just to make sure it is completely up to date. Congrats again, - Nick [/QUOTE]
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