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> Are you kidding? Who would do that? It's enough
> of a pain transfering files, settings and
> applications after five years. It would be as
> dumb as trading a BMW after one year.
You're not trading in a BMW. You are trading in a VW Bug.
Anyway, the problem of transferring files between machines is really impressively addressed by Apple. I got a new MacBook Pro. It asked me, after about one minute or so of answering a few other questions, if I had another Mac that I wanted to transfer everything from.
I said 'Yes.'
I hooked up the old machine to the new one via firewire.
After about 40 minutes, everything (applications, my preferences, control panels, email accounts, etc) had been completely transferred to the new computer I just bought.
Done.
Try *that* in &^%$#@# Windowz.
