Hi there! I am new to this forum. I have a few questions about buying a new mac that I was hoping somone could advise me on.
Situation: I have a mac laptop that I ABSOLUTELY LOVED/LOVE. It started breaking down about 2 and a half years ago. I was having a baby at the time so I was not able to invest in fixing it. I am now wanting to get back into my mac universe (so sick of this infested pc). However, I am all but certain that repairs to my old ibook g3 would be more expensive than buying a new one all-together. Battery won't charge. Cd player is broken. Power cord would have to be replaced. Not starting at all at this point, even though I have gone through all the reset procedures. So, I am going to be buying a used mac laptop soon.
However, all my expensive software is on the old laptop. Thousands of dollars worth. The installation disks were accidently thrown away when we were moving. I am wondering what I can do to get the software from the old computer to the new one.
1. Would my hardrive or its programs continue to function if I moved the actual hard drive to the new computer? Would my programs work if I simply transferred the contents of the one hard-drive to the other?
2. Can a mac hard drive be removed put in a new laptop? Would it have to be the same model exactly?
3. Is there a way to transfer the hard drive info from the old hd to the new one with only one working computer?
4. If I upgrade to a power-book and attempt to transfer the info from one hard-drive to the other, will it work? Does it matter if the model or OS is different?
Thank you for your answers. I've been looking for this information online for a couple weeks now and I seem to be finding answers that are only vaguely related to my questions.
Again, Thanks!
Situation: I have a mac laptop that I ABSOLUTELY LOVED/LOVE. It started breaking down about 2 and a half years ago. I was having a baby at the time so I was not able to invest in fixing it. I am now wanting to get back into my mac universe (so sick of this infested pc). However, I am all but certain that repairs to my old ibook g3 would be more expensive than buying a new one all-together. Battery won't charge. Cd player is broken. Power cord would have to be replaced. Not starting at all at this point, even though I have gone through all the reset procedures. So, I am going to be buying a used mac laptop soon.
However, all my expensive software is on the old laptop. Thousands of dollars worth. The installation disks were accidently thrown away when we were moving. I am wondering what I can do to get the software from the old computer to the new one.
1. Would my hardrive or its programs continue to function if I moved the actual hard drive to the new computer? Would my programs work if I simply transferred the contents of the one hard-drive to the other?
2. Can a mac hard drive be removed put in a new laptop? Would it have to be the same model exactly?
3. Is there a way to transfer the hard drive info from the old hd to the new one with only one working computer?
4. If I upgrade to a power-book and attempt to transfer the info from one hard-drive to the other, will it work? Does it matter if the model or OS is different?
Thank you for your answers. I've been looking for this information online for a couple weeks now and I seem to be finding answers that are only vaguely related to my questions.
Again, Thanks!