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Hey all,
hoping this great Mac community can give me some advice here
I own a 13inch Macbook (late 2008) and have just purchased a new 21inch iMac in the Apple Black Friday sale yesterday. My plan is to sell my Macbook and purchase a new 11inch Macbook air, so that I have a sturdy desktop machine and a small, light portable that I can take with me on my travels.
My question is this:-
What is the best way for me to transfer all of the information, data, applications, Etc from my 13inch Macbook to my new iMac? I realise that upon booting my new iMac for the first time, I will have the 'Setup Assistant' option, but am I right in saying that this only works by connecting the old machine and new machine via firewire? If so, I'm screwed, as the my Macbook (2008) does not have a firewire port.
Is there anyway I can set up my new iMac as a new system and then slowly re-install all of my applications? Is this even possible, considering a lot of the applications were purchased with specific serial codes?
If you recommend that I use 'Setup Assistant' to migrate my old system, are there any tips that you can give me on what I should do with my Macbook BEFORE I migrate the data?
Many thanks,
Mark
hoping this great Mac community can give me some advice here
I own a 13inch Macbook (late 2008) and have just purchased a new 21inch iMac in the Apple Black Friday sale yesterday. My plan is to sell my Macbook and purchase a new 11inch Macbook air, so that I have a sturdy desktop machine and a small, light portable that I can take with me on my travels.
My question is this:-
What is the best way for me to transfer all of the information, data, applications, Etc from my 13inch Macbook to my new iMac? I realise that upon booting my new iMac for the first time, I will have the 'Setup Assistant' option, but am I right in saying that this only works by connecting the old machine and new machine via firewire? If so, I'm screwed, as the my Macbook (2008) does not have a firewire port.
Is there anyway I can set up my new iMac as a new system and then slowly re-install all of my applications? Is this even possible, considering a lot of the applications were purchased with specific serial codes?
If you recommend that I use 'Setup Assistant' to migrate my old system, are there any tips that you can give me on what I should do with my Macbook BEFORE I migrate the data?
Many thanks,
Mark