I recently bought a C2D Macbook, im tottaly blown away by its performance however i wish that i had bought the MBP for the screen size. What im wondering is if i were to sell the Macbook and buy a Macbook pro would i be able to take out the current harddrive in my macbook, install it in the MBP and then boot from the same OS X config that im using now on my Macbook. Meaning all my software, preferences, and media would be present ? Would it be that simple or would i have to reinstall everything and reload all my documents etc....
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Switching; Macbook to MBP
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Well wait, you want to sell the Macbook without a hard drive then? Or you would put the Macbook Pro hard drive into the Macbook and the Macbook hard drive into the Macbook Pro? Sounds kinda messy, I'd just make a copy of the Macbook hard drive on an external HD and then go from there.
The harddrive in a MBP is not user replaceable, so no, you cannot. Unless you want to perform surgery on a 2000+ bucks beast, that is. It would be much easier to buy the MBP, connect the MB with a firewire cable, and use migration assistant to transfer your files and preferences, etc.
Is that method going to ensure things such as album artwork, and applications like quicksilver are all transferred properly. ? Ive transferred my stuff 3 times in the last year and found it to be similiar to moving your house, not very enjoyable. Id prefer to avoid the tedious task of doing it manually at all costs.
It should... I haven't tried it though, so can't vouch for it.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25773
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25773
The user migration agent does all that without the hardware hassle. All you need is just one little FW cable
The user migration agent does all that without the hardware hassle. All you need is just one little FW cable
I just bought a 2.16 C2D MacBook Pro to replace my 2.0 CD MacBook today and that's exactly what I did. The process took me about 2 hours but I was presented with my familiar desktop, applications and settings.