What's the easiest way to move from one Macintosh to another?
- by schnapple
Here's the story:
Company bought me a $599 Mac mini (as of this writing, 2.26GHz/160GB HD/2GB RAM)
I have it set up to some extent with software for development
Company decides it needs a second Mac for QA
I convince company to buy the $799 Mac mini for the second machine (as of this writing, 2.53GHz/320GB HD/4GB RAM), let me have it for development, and let QA have the $599 Mac mini
Company does just that, now I have both
So, what's the best way to move from one of these to the other? Just set up everything on the second one and be done with it? Can I transfer things from the first to the second somehow? I'm running Time Machine backups to an external drive on the $599 Mac mini, if that helps. Also both of these will be on the network at the same time, other than renaming one of the machines are there considerations to be had there?