I have just bought a MacBook Pro with SSD and a My Passport 2TB portable Hard Drive and had been intending to reformat the My Passport & make a BOOTABLE CLONE of the laptop before I start putting programmes on it. (Scared of screwing it up - want to be able to restore!). (Was going to use Carbon Copy Cloner)
But I have been told I should have bought a SSD to clone to, (because the Laptop is SSD) instead of the My Passport. Is this true? I think the person's idea was that that way I could unscrew the original SSD and replace it with the cloned one, inside the laptop.
Is it even still possible to swap over the original SSD in the mid-2012-build MacBook Pro (NON-Retina)? (in the event that the original SSD becomes defunct)
MacBook =
- 2.6GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
- 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB
- 128GB Solid State Drive
- Time Capsule 2TB (for incremental backups)
Any advice would be much appreciated!
I would like to get it done before I start messing around on the laptop. I haven't even got it out the box yet - the suspense is killing me!!!!
But I have been told I should have bought a SSD to clone to, (because the Laptop is SSD) instead of the My Passport. Is this true? I think the person's idea was that that way I could unscrew the original SSD and replace it with the cloned one, inside the laptop.
Is it even still possible to swap over the original SSD in the mid-2012-build MacBook Pro (NON-Retina)? (in the event that the original SSD becomes defunct)
MacBook =
- 2.6GHz Quad-core Intel Core i7, Turbo Boost up to 3.6GHz
- 8GB 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM - 2x4GB
- 128GB Solid State Drive
- Time Capsule 2TB (for incremental backups)
Any advice would be much appreciated!
I would like to get it done before I start messing around on the laptop. I haven't even got it out the box yet - the suspense is killing me!!!!
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