I would recommend purchasing an SSD and external hard drive case. Put SSD in to external case, connect to MacBook and install new Mac OS on SSD, then migrate your data. When done and everything is tested, you can simply swap internal drive with the SSD. This way you don't loose anything and even have a full backup of your computer.
Speed improvement with SSD on Mac OS would not be huge, but noticeable.
it's just barely up to mavericks (minimal memory; i can clean up more hd space).
my external usb drive is far, far larger than my internal drive. i do rsync to a linux box for additional backups; is it still better to have the backup-software-generated stuff as well?
i think i'd rather the macbook pro than the air; it's not much heavier and nicer screen is nicer.... but i do not hate my old machine, i just need new features. guess that's a matter of gotta decide, too.
Tools like CCC and SuperDuper normally expect to turn your external drive into an exact clone of your internal one - you wouldn't want to use that drive for anything else. Given the price of USB drives these days, I'd just buy a new one just for this backup.
The best thing about CCC/SuperDuper backups like this is that the USB drive is bootable: if your internal drive dies (or you just need to go back to the older OS really quickly), you can just boot off of the USB drive and get to work right away.
awesome, thanks. my 10.5.8 is too old for ccc, but here's the plan:
. trial superduper (on hand)
. another drive (a 128g flash usb) to serve as intermediate boot drive if needed (ordered) ** i have a usb hard disk i've got for time machine; would it be better to switch these functions during the upgrade?
. a copy of snow leopard (ordered)
upgrade to snow leopard
** how do i then get ahold of mavericks and upgrade to that??
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Speed improvement with SSD on Mac OS would not be huge, but noticeable.
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my external usb drive is far, far larger than my internal drive. i do rsync to a linux box for additional backups; is it still better to have the backup-software-generated stuff as well?
i think i'd rather the macbook pro than the air; it's not much heavier and nicer screen is nicer.... but i do not hate my old machine, i just need new features. guess that's a matter of gotta decide, too.
thanks :)
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The best thing about CCC/SuperDuper backups like this is that the USB drive is bootable: if your internal drive dies (or you just need to go back to the older OS really quickly), you can just boot off of the USB drive and get to work right away.
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. trial superduper (on hand)
. another drive (a 128g flash usb) to serve as intermediate boot drive if needed (ordered)
** i have a usb hard disk i've got for time machine; would it be better to switch these functions during the upgrade?
. a copy of snow leopard (ordered)
upgrade to snow leopard
** how do i then get ahold of mavericks and upgrade to that??
thanks much again!!
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