Re: Updating from an Intel to 14" M3 Pro MacBook Pro
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Jim Robertson wrote: My new laptop is on its way, directly from Shanghai. My current plan is to use Migration Assistant to populate it. My Late 2019 16¡± ?MacBook Pro is running Ventura. I have TB 3/4 cables available. I have a few questions:
- Should I update the current computer to Sonoma before doing the Migration Assistant?
- Should I do the migration directly from the 2019 computer, or should I do it from my SuperDuper! clone (in which case of course I¡¯d need to update the clone first as well. The clone is on a TB3-equipped SSD stick.
- I assume that I¡¯ll need to do some extra work to get my MS Office updated to versions that run natively on the Apple Silicon SOC (or maybe not; my MS Office Apps are all listed as ¡°Universal¡± and labeled as version 16.78.3). However, I do have SOME applications that are labeled as ¡°Intel¡± ?How do I accomplish that part of the migration?
I would: - Update the clone backup at the last minute before copying from the old laptop, then set it aside.
- Boot up the new laptop, do the basic start-up stuff, ¡
- ¡ make sure it is up-to-date with Sonoma, then
- connect the 2 laptops via Thunderbolt, and use Migration Assistant to complete the installation on the new machine directly from the old machine.
- Do NOTHING with the clone for a while until you are sure all the important things are working correctly on the new machine,
- THEN update the clone from the new machine.
I don¡¯t attempt to answer questions having to do with Microsoft¡
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Jim Saklad