From proble-Mac-tic to Mac-tastic June 8, 2006
Posted by Phillip in : geek , trackbackUnbeknownst to most people, except maybe my co-workers, I have been having some SERIOUS issues with my MacBook Pro. As it turns out, I got a pseudo-dud laptop from CDW. My MacBook Pro shipped with a faulty logic board that caused my laptop to spontaneously reboot at random times. It turns out my logic board didn’t even care if I had saved my work! After taking it to the Genius Bar and having them tell me nothing was wrong, I called CDW. They were able to get me fixed up with an RMA.
Problem — I can’t be without my laptop!
Solution — After another call to CDW and a nice long talk with our the account manager, they were able to send out a new laptop of the same model prior to my returning the old one! This would, in theory, give me the chance to migrate all my shizzle (music, apps, docs, etc.) and then wipe the old one.
Well, I waited and waited and I finally got my new MacBook Pro yesterday. Aside from CDW sending it UPS Ground (thereby causing me to wait almost a full week!), I was quite happy. I have never used the whole built-in firewire mac to mac migration assistant, so I didn’t know quite what to expect. I figured it would pull over most of my apps and my docs, and of course my music, but I was expecting to reinstall fink and a couple hand-installed things.
BOY WAS I WRONG. Migration Assistant is FLAWLESS!!! (yes that is three exclamation marks)
It turns out, it migrated all of my stuff and even my fink installation. I had to reinstall the Cisco VPN Client (due to the fact that it installs stuff in /System, which is not migrated) but other than a symlink for gpg (/sw/bin/gpg -> /usr/local/bin/gpg), I didn’t have to do ANYTHING.
So now I am flying. I am installing my VMs (using Parallels) and actually being productive again. All of this without worrying if my laptop is going to reboot at any given moment. This thing is made of magic.
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