On Mar 4, 2020, at 4:01 PM, Jim Saklad via Groups.Io <jimdoc@...> wrote:
Bev in TX wrote:
Well, I finally bought a new 16¡± MBP this morning. ...
Are there any pitfalls of which I should be aware?
It will take some getting used to.
It will have a *fast* SSD, with APSF formatting.
Faster will be better :-). I guess that my USB 3 backup drives will also run faster now (I only has USB 2 ports on my old MBP).
It will have macOS Catalina installed.
If you look in Disk Utility, you will likely be confused by the presence of a <Macintosh HD> and a <Macintosh HD ¨C Data>.
The former is the system and apps that are installed by the Apple installer, and it is read-only.
The latter contains all your user data, and all the apps NOT installed by the Apple installer ¡ AND hard links to the Apple-installed apps, so it will *appear* that they are there also.
Thanks for that info, as I only briefly scanned an article about the new boot disk volumes around the time Catalina was released. I didn¡¯t pay much attention back then.
There will undoubtedly be other stuff that I¡¯m too familiar with to remember as ¡°new¡±, so feel free to ask us.
Thanks, I¡¯m sure that I will back with more questions.
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Bev in TX
