Tranfering content from MacBook to MacBook air

I have not received my custom air yet, but was wondering how I will transfer my entire content from black MacBook to air, since air has no FireWire. In the past I have just transferred user content via FireWire on both computers and that has worked perfectly. Any thoughts thanks

(n_n) wrote:
Hi,
I heard that it's advisable to do a new installation ourselves once again when we've just received our Mac because factory installation may not be perfect.
No. There's no basis for that. Not in the OSX world, anyway.
I think it is good to do partition as well before the installation so that we can have one partition only for OS and another partition for our photos, music etc. It is nice because when we want to migrate our stuff, we can simply use CCC to clone the second partition into an external HD and thus migrate our stuff to another computer with migration assistant.
Also no. That may be advisable on Windoze or other OSs, but not OSX.
First, OSX works much better (and faster) with OSX and home folders in a single partition. And, if you guess wrong about the sizes, you'll either waste a lot of space on the OSX partition, or have too little free space on it, possibly causing performance problems or data loss.
Second, Migration Assistant (or the similar Setup Assistant) doesn't transfer OSX, but it does transfer everything else.
Third, that would require re-installation of most or all complex applications -- the ones that come with installers. Those installers put other files in other places, often in your system folders, in addition to installing the app in /Applications. In your scenario, none of those files would be transferred, so the apps wouldn't work well, if at all. And those that store their purchase keys or serial numbers in a system folder will require re-entry or re-authorization.
But MIgration Assistant (or Setup Assistant) does transfer those files.

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