Of course you have to know to do that. How many people cloning with CCC have actually done that? Probably not many.
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upgrading my MBP early 2011 to 16 gb of ram and SSD?
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Of course you have to know to do that. How many people cloning with CCC have actually done that? Probably not many.
To paraphrase Huxley, the tools don't cease to exist because you don't know about them.
Yet your one previous comment on the subject before this was:
G-Mo said:
Really helpful /s
And I still stand by that. Most people don't read the docs and depend on advice from experience people to guide their way. Your advice stunk. You have to dig in the CCC docs to know that the Recovery Partition can be restored. CCC silently doesn't copy it. My advice was infinitely more helpful than yours (which I'm guessing you figured out when you followed the threads I linked else you'd have said something earlier).
Lol! Don't try and pass your ignorance off on me... I use CCC to do Lion clones at least a dozen times a week, it's my job, I knew it well before you posted your misknowledge all over this thread.
Had the post been "how do I correctly clone my HDD to SSD" I would have elaborated in significant detail, it wasn't.
You just posted wrong information, then proceeded to defend it with more wrong information instead of just manning up and saying you were wrong... That's weak.
And what did I say that was wrong? My original advice to do a clean Lion install would end up with a bootable Lion disk with a recovery partition. And yours?
It's all about what you say at the time, not what you figure out later.
16 gb is cheap enough now to just not even bother weighing it up.
Just get 16gb and forget worrying about it until your machine is end of life.
Just get 16gb and forget worrying about it until your machine is end of life.
"Nuff said"... weak retreat.
Nothing you've said prior to the last couple of posts after I pointed out the issue would have saved the OP from losing the Recovery HD. If I'd not done the research and posted it people might have (many probably have) followed your advice blindly and ended up in a mess. Is this what they teach you to get your certification? Scary.
SSD, for sure. You won't ever go back to using a HDD as a boot drive.
As for RAM, get at least 8 GB.
I would put more money into a larger SSD, especially since prices have gone down significantly this past year.
As for RAM, get at least 8 GB.
I would put more money into a larger SSD, especially since prices have gone down significantly this past year.