Moving to another Macbook Pro

I have a 17" MacBook Pro and am moving to a 15" MacBook Pro. I am running OS X 10.5.2. Could I just create an image of my existing drive and restore it on the new machine, or do I need to go through a new install with the migration assistant. I use SuperDuper to back up my drive and I would love to just restore that to the new machine a go on with my life. I really don't feel like reinstalling apps and trying to find out what Migration Assistant didn't catch.
Thanks!
--Clay

I wouldn't do that. The new machine has stuff that probably doesn't exist on the old machine. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25784 for details. Just hook up the old machine to the new via FireWire in target disk mode and use the Migration Assistant.

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I just actually did that the other day. My newer MacBook died on me. So I took that drive out and installed in my older 2009 Macbook Pro and it works.
I however, can't tell you if moving your older Macbook Pro hard drive to your newer Macbook Pro might work. If the OS is the same version, it might. But if the OS in your older Macbook is not the same version, it might not.
Good luck

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Don't use TM for this purpose, clone your drive to an external, plug the external into another MBP and reboot from it. Please note that booting a machine that came with Lion may not be possible from a drive with Snow Leopard.

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try this.
get back into your router's settings and start deleting devices that are not connected to your router.
you can also delete the ones that are connected - they'll connect again.
on the DHCP side of it, increase the amount of users that can connect/log in to your router.
see if that sorts it out for you.
good luck.

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I have a picture, sound, it dials, yet never connects.
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So if your Mac originally came with Leopard, then you bought a upgrade Snow Leopard DVD and installed that you can sell it with Snow Leopard installed AND SUPPLY to the buyer all of the original system discs and the Snow Leopard upgrade disc.
If it came with Snow Leopard Pre-Installed then you would need to reinstall Snow Leopard and supply those system discs with the sale.
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When opening Aperture 3 on the MacBook Pro I am asked for the serial number. I enter the upgrade serial number which is rejected.
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Has anyone else come across this issue and know how it is resolved?
Assume I will not be able to find the Aperture 2 box. Can Apple help given that I will have previously registered Aperture 2 and 3 in the past? I really don't want to have to splash out on another couple of hundred quid for a lost box.
Please help.

Red,
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So I developed this workaround I hope the rest of you find amusingly simple, wildly helpful
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4) No start the Mine laptop by pressing the "option" key (two keys to the left of the space bar)
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5a) you'll notice now that the Mine laptop is booting the OS system files of the Wife's laptop (Her desktop, her preferences, etc...)
6) On the Mine laptop, insert the original Mac OS Install Disk (#1) that came with the Mine laptop (usually any OEM install disk will work, though)
7) Double-click on the DVD icon on the desktop when it mounts and look for a shortcut that reads, "Install Bundled Applications Only"...launch it
8) Now choose install bundled applications but make sure to press the "Customize" button in order to specifically choose which OEM software you want. In our case, just iPhoto
9) Follow the installer prompts all the through to completion and exit (you will be prompted to insert disk #2 along the way).
10) Remove the install disks, power down
11) Power down the Wife's laptop too
12) Disconnect the Firewire cables from both laptops
13) Power up the Wife's laptop normally
14) Launch the FInder and drill down to Applications. Look for iPhoto and launch it
15) iPhoto will either pickup the "iPhoto Library" that was previously restored after reimaging with Snow Leopard or you may be prompted to manually associate a library with iPhoto.
16) Once complete, you'll se all the restored pictures and data from when before the original hard drive crashed. Wife will be pleased and you'll look like a Genius
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TheHighSierras

I think the problem is that you can't install an older OS X version onto a system running a newer OS X version. So I would try the following:
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     2. Create an external bootable USB thumb drive with the Mountain Lion OS on it (do a search on the web for this - for example see http://www.macworld.com/article/1167857/how_to_make_a_bootable_mountain_lion_ins tall_drive.html
     3. Reboot Yosemite and then boot from the USB thumb drive by holding down the option key
     4. run the mountain lion installer and install on the new disk/partition you created in step 1 - it will also create another recovery partition from this same part of the disk
Now your Mac system will have both a Mountain Lion install as well as the Yosemite install. You won't be able to use Migration Assistant to move things from Yosemite to Mountain Lion because it will see that you're "going backwards" and won't allow you to.
Have a good backup of everything before starting in case there are problems.
Good luck...

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Hi there,
Can somebody send me to a page that explains the best way to migrate from a macbook pro running 10.8 to a new macbook pro running 10.9?
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- parked the MacBook in front of the fan/air conditioner in an attempt to keep the GPU cool
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bikemonkey wrote:
I think my GPU is borked too.
http://noizesurge.com/downloads/gpu1.jpg
http://noizesurge.com/downloads/gpu2.jpg - incidentally my computer had completely frozen at this point.
I'm pretty sure from observing these types of glitches that this is a hardware fault. I shall ring Apple on Monday and hopefully they can pick it up and sort it all out! Does anyone know roughly how long a turnaround is in the UK?
Yes, your video controller is toast. That's exactly how mine looked.
Just to make certain, run the Hardware Test:
- Put in DVD 1 that came with your MacBook Pro.
- Shut down
- Restart, holding the D key
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I'm betting it will return a message that looks like: "4VDC/1/40000003: videocontroller"
If so, your logic board will have to be replaced.
The Apple Store I went to (Michigan Ave, Chicago) told me it would take 5-7 days. I'm not sure what UK times would be like, but I'd expect a little longer.
bikemonkey wrote:
Incidentally, people are saying that they've have logic boards and what not replaced only for the problem to reoccur. Does this mean nVidia haven't properly fixed the issue?
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