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Tips to set up a replacement mac?

rye9

rye9

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After just shy of 6 years, I went out today and replaced my 2009 MBP with a new rMBP. It's the 128GB SSD version, a far cry from my current 500GB HDD. I have 90GB used on my current HDD, will I be fine moving to the new rMBP? It's still shrink-wrapped and all; I'm waiting until I'm perfectly set to migrate my data.

I'm concerned because I know that HDD's will be less than the actual reported capacity, is that the same for the SSD's? Should I get CCleaner for Mac and get rid of unnecessary files?

Also, unrelated to storage, how else should I, if anything, prepare my current mac before I migrate the data? (Or anything on my new Mac? I'm currently on the most recent version so it should be totally fine... only thing that's different AFAIK is the SSD vs HDD and the new Force Touch trackpad).

And finally, after my new rMBP is set up, how do I go about "resetting" this current Mac? I'm giving it to my mother for her to use, so I want it to be fresh for her.

Any other tips would be great, too! Thanks :)
 
rye9 said:
After just shy of 6 years, I went out today and replaced my 2009 MBP with a new rMBP. It's the 128GB SSD version, a far cry from my current 500GB HDD. I have 90GB used on my current HDD, will I be fine moving to the new rMBP? It's still shrink-wrapped and all; I'm waiting until I'm perfectly set to migrate my data.

I'm concerned because I know that HDD's will be less than the actual reported capacity, is that the same for the SSD's? Should I get CCleaner for Mac and get rid of unnecessary files?

Also, unrelated to storage, how else should I, if anything, prepare my current mac before I migrate the data? (Or anything on my new Mac? I'm currently on the most recent version so it should be totally fine... only thing that's different AFAIK is the SSD vs HDD and the new Force Touch trackpad).

And finally, after my new rMBP is set up, how do I go about "resetting" this current Mac? I'm giving it to my mother for her to use, so I want it to be fresh for her.

Any other tips would be great, too! Thanks :)
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You should be fine. What I would honestly recommend is to do a fresh install. Manually copy over your files and reinstall the applications. You'll find that things will go smoother.

As far as resetting it, (assuming you don't have a boot password set), boot into recovery and use Disk Utility to erase the drive, and then install OSX.
 
bookwormsy said:
You should be fine. What I would honestly recommend is to do a fresh install. Manually copy over your files and reinstall the applications. You'll find that things will go smoother.

As far as resetting it, (assuming you don't have a boot password set), boot into recovery and use Disk Utility to erase the drive, and then install OSX.
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Why would that be better than Migration Assistant?
 
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