I was hoping the migration would be a breeze. But it turns out there is a catch.
Here is the little background. I have a Mac Book Pro 15" which was purchased in April 2008 ( 4GB, 2.6GHZ, 250GB ). I loved it, the only thing it missing is the multi-touch track pad, of course, it is not a uni-body. But I want the new 13", you know it would be nice to have if you have to carry it for some business trip.
First, I made a full backup of the 15" to the time machine. Then put in the installation DVD on 13", after reboot, I wipe the SSD drive and then from the menu bar selected Utilities > Restore System from Backup...
This brought up a dialog to let me select the Time Machine
Once you've selected your Time Machine volume, you can select which snapshot to restore from. I followed steps, and after 2 hours, it was done. Once it rebooted, every thing works fine, there is only one catch - no sound. You can hear the chim when starting the machine, but no sound devices found when you go to "system preferences". After googling for about another hour, tried several solutions. None of them worked for me. I guess that just is the driver's problem, but I have no idea which library to put onto my new machine. So I gave up searching, and re-do the installation. It turns out it is quite simple, the lesson I've learned is "Do not migrate a whole system, just the user account if you have different machines". Here is the steps:
Do are regular installation, once reboot, choose to migrate a user account from your time machine. After that, every thing works great!
A little thought about the better way to do it. The way that I did which migrated all the iWork08 to my new machine, although I can reinstall the iWork09. I was thinking maybe I can create a dummy user, login, do all the update and install all the new programs, then delete the dummy account, reboot, then migrate the user account. That would save me a lot of time. Maybe when snow leopard out...
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