So if you’re planning to buy a new Mac, here are some of the tasks that may be left for you after migration. All of these relate to how the underlying identity of the Mac has changed, even if its name and the names of all the drives in play remain the same. It’s a nice idea, but in reality, there are numerous areas where Setup Assistant simply doesn’t-and probably can’t-save you from additional work. The promise implicit in Setup Assistant’s migration is that you won’t have to reconfigure everything and can just get back to work. What I do notice is that all the flakiness I was experiencing has disappeared-it’s nice to be able to restart without it being a production (see “ Six Lessons Learned from Dealing with an iMac’s Dead SSD,” 27 April 2020).ĭuring the setup of the new iMac, I had no issues migrating all my data from the Samsung T5 SSD that I had been using to boot the old iMac, but I was somewhat surprised at how much additional work was necessary afterward. The new machine is great, although I have to admit that I don’t notice much of a performance improvement over the old one, despite it having a much beefier CPU. Several weeks ago, I upgraded from a 2014 27-inch iMac with Retina display to Apple’s new 2020 version of the same model (see “ 27-inch iMac Receives Significant Update, Other iMacs Get a Nod,” 4 August 2020). Moving to a New Mac: What’s Left to Do After Migration? Beats Fit Pro, ransomware protection, more OCR tools for text in images #1588: Monterey memory leak, third-generation AirPods vs.
#1589: New FaceTime features, iOS 15's Weather notifications, Apple's Self Service Repair, iOS 15.1.1 and watchOS 8.1.1, Thanksgiving hiatus.
#1592: Life with HomeKit, notification summaries, Music/iTunes Store oddity, inadvertent Mail deletion, iOS update error, holiday hiatus.