[Ti] How To Move My Acc't to the new Powerbook?

[Murray Kastner]

In Applications, under Utilities, you will find a file entitled  
"Migration Assistant" and this might be what you are looking for,,,

Murray



On 28-Apr-05, at 9:31 PM, ~flipper wrote:


> Alan Thompson wrote:
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>
>> apparently there is some new option upon setup that helps with  
>> xferring whatever you like to the new computer via firewire - but  
>> it's handled by the setup routine on the new computer.  you don't  
>> have to (i think) mess around with any configuration on your own.
>>
>> --alan
>>
>>
>
> Well, I'd like to know where the new option is. I did an erase,  
> partition, clean install, and not even a hint of any sort of thing  
> like that came to the surface. I checked out 'Cutomize", and  
> whatnot...nada.
>
> I did notice, however, that midway through the first disk, despite  
> my un-selecting every non-English language 'support' that the  
> installer was busy loading up the simplified chinese and other  
> asian support... plus ca change...
>
> Monolingual grabbed 162 MB of .lproj jazz, later, so no big deal.
>
> A day after the install I hooked up the new Aluminum (in Target  
> mode), to the old Ti, and just dragged my apps and support files  
> over. Using Xfile to copy over 'invisibles' and a bit of other  
> stuff, and was amazed that things like Office X, and other heavier- 
> duty suites, loaded right up, no re-authorization at all. (One  
> exception being Final Draft, which, for some reason bails out right  
> after opening menus, etc, no great loss, the Ti-Book is still  
> running with it, anyway).
>
> As for the OS... I don't mind Panther nearly as much as i thought I  
> would. But the hardware is really cool. Doubling the CPU peed has a  
> much more dramatic effect than quadrupling the VRAM. Too bad.  
> Although the 64MB is smoother than the 16MB in the 667, I see that  
> the visualizer in iTunes is still pretty lame. It was a much higher  
> frame rate, to my eyes, about three or four 'upgrades' (of iTunes)  
> ago. Oh well.
>
> I haven't hooked up my LaCie 22" CRT to the Aluminum yet. But even  
> with spanned desktops, the old Ti-Book supported 1600 x 1200 at  
> millions of colors at 85hz. Not too shabby. It'll be interesting to  
> see what's happening with the new one. the 'hz' factor makes a huge  
> difference in terms of ease on the eyes. I like 85 as a minimum,  
> and have seen the 128MB cards (in Aluminum books) supporting 105  
> hz, very nifty.
>
> brian s
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