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Interesting...

While helping my brother (retired CEO from where I work) and his wife with their Mac laptops this weekend...

Noticed they both had gotten new Mac laptops and the problems they were having were because the IT staff moved their stuff by copying it from the old computer to a hard drive then copied it to the new computer (I'm guessing like you would a PC).

Almost all of my SIL's apps were popping up asking for passwords and had lost all their customization and setup info!!! They had even provided my SIL a hard drive with the copy of her laptop drive on it (but no USB 3 cable to plug into the hard drive!) I had to go get a cable I had then go thru and find everything on her laptop that she had modified and copy it to the "backup" of her drive when they moved her stuff. THEN reformat her computer drive, reinstall the OS and use the Mac migration utility to copy all her stuff to the new computer. They should have used the migration utility in the first place.

I didn't have the luxury of them providing a pre-new computer backup of my brother's laptop and had to go thru and open and set passwords and licenses on everything. He had also bought into some Mac Cleaner thing that is a scam trying to fix his problem that I had to go thru and remove all the little bits because besides the license problems it kept popping up asking for more money to fix his computer. Again making a backup before migrating to a new computer is highly recommened. On a mac it needs to be a bootable backup, just in case. But when you first login to the new computer you just plug the old computer to the new one with a drive cable and it will migrate all your stuff to the new computer. Easy Peasy. Macs have had that feature for over 20 years!

Anyway while I was griping groaning and complaining about the current IT departments complete lack of ability to handle macs even though there are lots of them I commented that I have been asking to upgrade my mac laptop to a newer one for over a year since mine was then 5 years old. And that I was told that I didn't need it upgraded even though even my 2 bosses go new mac laptops in the last six months and they don't even run mac stuff!

At hearing that my brother offered to immediately take me to the Apple store and buy me a new laptop. Told him my laptop wasn't a personal machine, it was a company computer and they were not spending money now. He said he would be buying it with his own money. Told him I couldn't let him do that because it just wasn't right.

Today my boss sends me an email and they are buying me a new laptop. But would only be configured with the 500 meg drive instead of gigabit because the gigabit was $500 more expensive. (his has the gigabit drive and so does my borther and sisters). Told him that would be fine, but to remember lack of hard drive space is the main reason I need my 5 plus year old mac laptop updated today.

Sorry for boring you with my computer stuff. If you aren't asleep by now....