Comments on: MPU 006: Setting Up A New Mac

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:57:19 +0000

Great episode as usual. Just wanted to mention that I have restored my macbook pro several times from Time Machine backups on an external hard drive using USB. I haven’t tried USB to migrate from one computer to another, but USB does work at least when migrating from a hard drive.

By: Jim

Jim — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:29:38 +0000

Lots of good coverage. I wish someone would put together a worksheet listing the items to have & steps to take when setting up a new mac.

The closest I’ve found is Apple’s worksheet for setting up Snow Leopard Server:

http://images.apple.com/server/macosx/docs/Worksheet_v10.6.pdf

By: BlackMacX

BlackMacX — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:08:49 +0000

One thing that I do different then most is I reformat the new Mac with the supplied installer DVD disc, so I can customize the contents and then I use Migration Assistant to transfer data; but I don’t use it to transfer preferences, I do those manually as needed and to ensure corruption is kept to a minimum. I don’t install the full Printer list, the Languages likewise is pruned too.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:35:02 +0000

Thanks for mentioning Grapher.app at the end of this podcast. I had no idea it was in my Applications folder. It is a great, simple equation editor. Pastes right into NeoOffice no problem. Love finding little gems like this that come free with OS X.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:09:04 +0000

@Teri

Stay tuned. I’ll explain deeper in a post or screencast.

By: Teri

Teri — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:25:02 +0000

I was listening to this episode and you mentioned mounting all the discs so that when you’re making images of an application that has multiple discs you don’t have to wait around to put each disk in the drive. How do you do that? Yes I’m not a power user but a girl can dream!

By: Jono

Jono — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:37:15 +0000

One of the things I do when setting up computers for others (Mac & Windows) is to setup Dropbox on their machines and then setup a shared account between us. As well as you both getting extra free space for signing up through Dropbox’s referral programme I can then drop any files or updates I need them to have the next time I call round there.

I usually create symbolic links in Dropbox to key folders such as Documents and Pictures. This way their data is being backed up to the cloud without them doing anything special (I’ve tried telling them to save things in folder in Dropbox in the past, but found they’d forget a lot of the time. So they would have some files in the regular Documents folder and others in the Dropbox folder).

By: Aaron Bendict

Aaron Bendict — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:20:53 +0000

Katie, I was having the exact same problem when I upgraded to a 13″ MacBook Pro. Thanks for mentioning the problem and how to fix it. If anyone else is looking for the link to download the iLife Support file it is http://support.apple.com/downloads/iLife_Support_9_0_3.

By: Robert Ellis

Robert Ellis — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:06:51 +0000

WOW!
Excellent podcast, really good stuff here. I’ll be in the market to replace my 17″ MacBook Pro around the end of the year so revisiting this episode will be a pre-requisite.
Thanks again for a great job,
Robert

By: pat

pat — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:02:45 +0000

Sure wish I had listened to this before I set up my new MBP 13″ and ended up with this media browser corruption.
Great podcast!

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