• Through some quirk of fate *, I ended up with a new MBP M1 Pro last week, but am about to get an identical one for a new job. Is there a super easy way to clone my setup from one to the other?

    * Got layed off and laptops were part of the severance; mine was delivered a week before the layoffs.

  • I've not done it before so I may well be speaking out my arse, but are you able to backup the old one to an external drive using time machine and restore the new one from that backup?

    Edit: Looks like there's a built-in migration assistant that can do it also (which you can do either from a time machine backup, or another machine): https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204350

  • I've not done it before so I may well be speaking out my arse, but are you able to backup the old one to an external drive using time machine and restore the new one from that backup?

    Possibly too late now, but Migration assistant is a bit shit @beseku

    Personally I would back up to an external drive as @mmccarthy suggests using SuperDuper! then restore that to the new one. However you'd have to use a bootable USB with MacOS and SuperDuper! on it because you can't wipe the boot drive.

    This may sound like a big faff but it's less faff than migration assistant fucking it up. Ask me how I know...

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