Well… Moving to the New MacBook Pro is Done
Well... it came today and so I left work a little early (3:00 pm) after the last of the meetings and went home to do the conversion. The unboxing was impressive, as always. The set-up started very uneventfully, and then I ran into those things that I keep forgetting about - the docs I have in /Developer/Java that I probably need to move to my home directory if I want to make this a smoother transition next time, and then the amazing fact that all the developer tools (Xcode, etc.) are not copied.
I can understand that, in a sense, but in a larger sense, it's amazingly obvious that they should be copied over. After all, /usr/local/ gets copied - and that's not even visible to the average user. The Developer Tools are something that needs to be copied. Period. No excuses.
Fonts. Fonts are another thing that aren't copied over. Thank goodness that I keep the fonts around for a while, or else I'd have a pickle of a time getting them to install in short order. Let's face it - I have until about 8:15 pm to get this all done for tomorrow or else I'm taking the old notebook back to work, and I'll have to repeat this over again this weekend.
But I got them installed. I had to re-install Safari 4 Beta - but that's completely understandable. I then had to deal with setting up a few preferences on Terminal.app, and Xcode, and then it was looking pretty much normal. Sure, the display size is great, and at the same time messes up the layouts I've been using on the older MacBook Pro, but that's something I can get used to. I just need to work with it for a few days to come to the best layout of the different Spaces.
On the whole, it was a good time. Stressful for a while, but I got it all done in an evening and now I can make sure it's all OK, and then convert the old laptop into a new Kids Computer for the living room. That is going to make things a lot cleaner in the living room and will also provide a nice speed bump from the Mac Mini that's been there for quite a while.