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    upgrading MBP to rMBP does it carry bought softwares?

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by Bashar, Jul 13, 2012.

  1. Bashar

    Bashar Notebook Evangelist

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    Hello,
    I'm planning to buy the new MacBook Pro Retina, is there a way to carry everything i have on my current MacBook pro?

    because when i bought this second hand Macbook pro it had many applications bundled with it from the previous owner so I want to make sure these come with me to the new one.

    things like entire Adobe series, ms-office, windows 7 and parallels, and many Mac applications that i didnt even start using.

    Thanks in advance
     
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    diggy Notebook Deity

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    Migration Assistant
     
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  3. Bashar

    Bashar Notebook Evangelist

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    and what happens on the previous mac's apps? keeps running on two devices?
     
    Bashar, Jul 13, 2012
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    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    some of them will not transfer right with migration assistant because next time you run them they'll ask for CD keys and such. You *should* have those legally anyways... if the person sold it to you second hand with a buncha illegal installs (meaning he gave you copies of the stuff he was still using) well you might just be out of luck on those that require you to activate them again. i think the Adobe stuff will fail, and I know MS Office always fails and you have to re-enter the key.
     
    doh123, Jul 13, 2012
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  5. masterchef341

    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    oops accident
     
    masterchef341, Jul 13, 2012
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