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    Moving the HDD/SSD from one MBP to another.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by tenderidol, Jan 19, 2010.

  1. tenderidol

    tenderidol Notebook Evangelist

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    Hi all,
    Currently, I have a 160GB Intel G2 SSD in my 15" MBP. When Intel releases the 320GB version soon, the 160GB will move to my wife's 13" MBP.

    Except for the few titles, the software we use are identical (The software we have is all "multiple copy" versions). To avoid reinstalling Snow Leopard and the programs again, I would like to just install the SSD to the 13" MBP and make some changes (e.g., changing accounts in Mail, loading different set of Firefox bookmarks, etc etc). It seems like the name and the password of the Admin account can be changed under "user accounts" as well.

    Would this create any problems? Is it naive to assume that once SL boots the first time, it will make the necessary changes once it realizes that it's in a different environment?

    Thanks in advance!
     
    tenderidol, Jan 19, 2010
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