Since I was due for a Leopard upgrade, and the opportunity presented itself for a hardware refresh as well- I've upgraded from my
first MBP Pro (2.33GHz core 2 duo, 2GB ram) to
this 2.6GHz core 2 duo, 4GB ram). [Yes, its good to have
a boss that loves hardware even more than I do. :)] The transition has- thus far- turned me into an ever bigger Apple fan.
When first powering on new Mac, it asks you if you want to transfer data from another Mac. Matthew reminded me of this option before I made the jump, so I borrowed Igor's firewire-to-firewire cable (which apparently is the only supported mode of data transfer) and
gave it a shot. Worst case, I'd just blow it all away with another fresh install and I'd be none the worse.
About two hours later, all of my user data and applications were migrated to the new machine. Easiest. Upgrade. EVAR. It looks like just my old box, only running fanshy smanshy Leopard now, and on snappier hardware. Lightroom photos looked brighter than before (I really need to get my displays calibrated...), the
Cisco VPN didn't work (but I
found a fix on a Sun blog. Nice!), and the annoying "BONG!" startup sound returned, even though I confirmed
Startup Sound was still enabled and supposedly muting it (reinstalling the app fixed it. too bad apps can't include version dependencies like Firefox extensions.)
So far so good. I'm leaving the obnoxious Leopard background image in place for now until I had over my old laptop- thats how much they look a like! Time will show if I made the jump to Leopard too soon-- but the OSX upgrade option was a total cakewalk!
UPDATE: It seems Parallels is totally fubared by the upgrade. I'll be curious to see if reinstalling the Parallels app resurrects my XP instance, or that needs to be reinstalled as well. Also, the new MBP and/or Leopard means it takes a significantly longer time for the laptop to suspend when I close it. No idea why, but its kinda annoying.