Clone PowerBook to Mini?

[arnaud]

Hello David.
You added confusion to my already puzzled brain ;-)

Let me clear-up things here :
- first of all, the computer I would buy wouldn't, in any case, be my main computer. It would be my "clone", my "rescue" computer, my second computer.
- so your advice is to run the latest OS on the main computer, mount the second one via Target Mode, and run Smart Update.
And that's it. No other step needed.
(Am I reading you correctly ?)

- but, that's what confusing me, why not run Migration Assistant first anyway ?
As if it was the new computer (and as you advised for the mac mini sooner on the thread).
So as to import all files first, then all the next times, only use Smart Update.

If I read you correctly, there's no need to run Migration Assistant if the computer is a clone, but you recommend running it if it becomes the new main computer.
I don't understand why the two different logics here.


Thanks again.