[glapher]

|t's an immense help to just copy everything from one image of a mac to another new one, and I have done it routinely.

I am about to do it on my new mac mini from my air, but I was wondering if anyone has noticed any slowing down from this. Or if some mac site has performed tests of speed and efficiency from copying an image of another mac to a new one vs. reinstalling everything clean. Maybe some files are corrupt and will cause problems? Seeing as lion is a dog (imho opinion and a lot of peoples experience and compared to sl) I wouldn't want to just carry over some rubbish from another install, but it's very convenient.

Maybe someone can suggest that I clean up some files or logs before?

Any views guys?

(Oh and by the way I have to mention for some novices here that the way to do it is clone your old mac via superduper or carbon disk cloner. Then connect the cloned external disk to the mac, boot on the new mac, then set from settings to boot next time (or start up and a younger generation might know it) from said external disk, and then lastly clone said disk into the disk of the new mac with any of the said utilities, piece of cake)

[Big Mac]

There's nothing wrong with imaging on to a new Mac if you want all the files on your drive. The only time it can be an issue is if you're trying to image on to newer Apple hardware that requires a higher version of the OS than you're running on your other Mac, in which case it won't boot. But that's solved easily enough by simply reinstalling the OS if necessary. As for corrupt files, I've been using OS X since 10.0 and have never had a problem with corrupt OS files.

[P]

Ever tried just doing a fresh install and just importing everything through the Migration Assistant?

[glapher]

Originally Posted by Big Mac 

There's nothing wrong with imaging on to a new Mac if you want all the files on your drive. The only time it can be an issue is if you're trying to image on to newer Apple hardware that requires a higher version of the OS than you're running on your other Mac, in which case it won't boot. But that's solved easily enough by simply reinstalling the OS if necessary. As for corrupt files, I've been using OS X since 10.0 and have never had a problem with corrupt OS files.

Many thanks big mac!

Originally Posted by P 

Ever tried just doing a fresh install and just importing everything through the Migration Assistant?

Yes I 've done that too in the past, and I 'd forgotten about it. Thanks, you reminded me of an equally good alternative!