Setting up new 24” iMac

[Surfman]

So after much deliberation have ordered a new 24” iMac, will arrive tomorrow, i sold my late 2015 27” fusion a month or so ago, screen was replaced twice by apple for pink tinge and was slowing down so got out while there was some value in it, and have just been using my M1 iPad 12.9” since release day.
I have a back up of the old mac, but everything i use now and i have setup on my iPad is in iCloud, iCloud Drive, photos/videos, files stuff, pages etc.
I kept any emails i needed. As you can see most of what i do is simple with streaming thrown in.

So should i just set it up as new and don’t do the back up? No doubt the backup has heaps of other crap i don’t want need taking up gb’s.
I got the 8/8/512GB silver. Better be good no return on this one and haven’t even seen one in the flesh lol
Thought I could do iPad only which i can for what i do, but just missed the extra screen in my home office.
Mrs also said it didn’t look like a office anymore lmao.

 

[Realityck]

So after much deliberation have ordered a new 24” iMac, will arrive tomorrow, i sold my late 2015 27” fusion a month or so ago, screen was replaced twice by apple for pink tinge and was slowing down so got out while there was some value in it, and have just been using my M1 iPad 12.9” since release day.
I have a back up of the old mac, but everything i use now and i have setup on my iPad is in iCloud, iCloud Drive, photos/videos, files stuff, pages etc.
I kept any emails i needed. As you can see most of what i do is simple with streaming thrown in.

So should i just set it up as new and don’t do the back up? No doubt the backup has heaps of other crap i don’t want need taking up gb’s.
I got the 8/8/512GB silver. Be better be good no return on this one and haven’t even seen one in the flesh lol
Thought I could do iPad only which i can for what i do, but just missed the extra screen in my home office.
Mrs also said it didn’t look like a office anymore lmao.

Yes just set up the computer as new. I had a recent back up on external HDD, just used Migration Assistant to see that and transfer data to the new iMac. Since I didn't have a USB-C to USB-A adapter I bought one to support that. You can certainly do that after bringing the iMac up as new. Migration assistant allows you to select what you want transferred. As well as work with iCloud.

 

[coso]

I would start fresh in your case, less chances of importing any problem front the old computer

 

[Surfman]

I set up as new, everything I use was in iCloud etc anyway, so much easier.