Can I use a clone I took with Carbon Copy Cloner of the drive in a late 2012 iMac and copy it to the drive in a 2012 Mac Mini? I believe I read in this forum that the new iMacs run a special version of OS X 10.8.2. I fear that this software will be incompatible with the Mini.
I feel bad for Apple but 1 dead pixel is causing me to think about returning a replacement $2150 iMac I received on Dec 26 with an otherwise perfect screen for a $1500 Mac Mini. The first iMac I got was one of the first BTO, order confirmed at 3AM EST Mon Nov 30, shipped from Shanghai on December 4. It had a 1/16th" diameter blotch visible on white backgrounds within a large, slightly distorted area, as well as one dead pixel. It also had Sleep issues that the firmware updater released on Dec 17 might have fixed.
When I used the first iMac's Migration Assistant at its initial start-up with a TimeMachine backup, a lot of support files for Logic and GarageBand would not transfer, including complete JamPacks. It took me a lot of time and some luck to get the music applications to work fully. But I couldn't do it with the replacement iMac, even after applying the same fix that worked on the first iMac. So I used a clone and CCC to move the first iMac's drive to the replacement iMac
I feel bad for Apple but 1 dead pixel is causing me to think about returning a replacement $2150 iMac I received on Dec 26 with an otherwise perfect screen for a $1500 Mac Mini. The first iMac I got was one of the first BTO, order confirmed at 3AM EST Mon Nov 30, shipped from Shanghai on December 4. It had a 1/16th" diameter blotch visible on white backgrounds within a large, slightly distorted area, as well as one dead pixel. It also had Sleep issues that the firmware updater released on Dec 17 might have fixed.
When I used the first iMac's Migration Assistant at its initial start-up with a TimeMachine backup, a lot of support files for Logic and GarageBand would not transfer, including complete JamPacks. It took me a lot of time and some luck to get the music applications to work fully. But I couldn't do it with the replacement iMac, even after applying the same fix that worked on the first iMac. So I used a clone and CCC to move the first iMac's drive to the replacement iMac