Moving from new Mac Mini to newer Mac Mini - right process?

[ddublu]

This seems obvious, but want to make sure I am not missing anything. I decided to go from the Mac Mini M4 Pro with 24gb RAM (base model) to the Mac Mini M4 Pro with 48gb and the upgraded processor. It arrives today. My current on is only two weeks old.

• Time Machine backup in place already
• open new MM, plug it into monitors and restore from current backup
• swap back to old one, boot up and wipe device for return
• swap back to new one and off to the races

That pretty much it?

 

[Hajj.david]

Yes, OR you can connect a thunderbolt device to the 'old' one and the new one (or just an ethernet cable) and do a direct transfer via migration assistant (during the macOS setup it will be there)

 

[ddublu]

Yes, OR you can connect a thunderbolt device to the 'old' one and the new one (or just an ethernet cable) and do a direct transfer via migration assistant (during the macOS setup it will be there)

Whoah! That sounds perfect. Thanks!

 

[FreakinEurekan]

Your original steps are fine actually, except, you don't "Restore" the backup - you migrate from it.

Basically same result as migrating directly from the older computer, but it's faster & doesn't tie up the old computer while it's working.