Revised Setup Assistant Aids in Migration to New Power Mac G5s
Truly Hassle-Free Upgrade--Apple simplicity lets you add a Power Mac G5 to your creative studio without days of downtime configuring a new system. The new Mac OS X setup assistant helps you effortlessly move user accounts, system preferences, documents and applications from an old Mac to a new Power Mac G5 — and the transfer is FireWire fast.
Basically, the Setup Assistant on the new Power Mac G5 prompts you to boot your old Mac into FireWire disk mode, assuming it is recent enought to do so, and connect it to the new one with a FireWire cable. Then Setup Assistant walks you through transfering files from your old Mac to the new Power Mac G5. This is basically what we do each time we get a new Mac but it will be nice to have Setup Assistant to make the process easier.
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