My incredibly nice boss bought me a new MacBook Pro, which I just received today. I am now in the process of trying to set my new laptop up just like my old one. I thought I would really look forward to playing with my new toy, but I’m actually dreading it a little. My old PowerBook ran pretty much the same software, so things aren’t really going to be any different. I just have to schlep all my data from the old laptop to the new one. I did use the Apple Migration Assistant to move my programs and things. This worked ok. I still had to go through and delete old versions of things and old programs that I no longer wanted. My iphoto library has come over fine and I’m now waiting for my music library to come over.

Things I Learned

Self-signed certificates, which I use on many sites need to be installed to the Keychain called X509 Anchors. If they just go to Login, you’ll be prompted for them each time.

Iphoto library can just be copied from the old machine to the new one, as long as it’s put in the proper place. On the new machine, that’s in ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library

X11 did not copy over. I’m downloading Xcode to use. I think this will work better than what I had.

I’ve heard lots about Quicksilver and I’ve finally downloaded it and will read the manual to see what makes it so good.

When I get the basics set up, I’ll be getting Parallels and will load windows on this machine.

I need to buy SnapzPro because that will help with creating quicktime movies for help pages