Upgrade everything BUT the hard drive? [Does this work?]
Is it possible to take the (320G 7200RPM Hitachi SATA laptop) drive out of my white 13" MacBook (2.4GHz Core 2 Duo) and put in into a new 13" Aluminum MacBook Pro and have it boot up and have the same software I'm used to now? It feels like it ought to work (I'm already running 10.6.1), but I thought someone might know for sure.
Thanks!
I would advise you not to do that. The two computers are of different generations and have different hardware. The OS install on your white MacBook will have drivers specific to that machine, so if you put the drive into the new MacBook Pro, you are likely to have kernel panics and general instability (if it even boots at all).
If you get the new MacBook Pro, your best bet would be to use the migration assistant that is available when setting up the new computer, which will pull in your settings/apps/data from your white MacBook.
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bin_bella wrote:
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