Thank you Apple Computer!

Happy Mac

I got my iMac back today, with its new, completely empty hard drive. When I fired it up, it asked me if I wanted to transfer information from another Mac equipped with Firewire. OMG - yes, yes, yes - my little 12" PowerBook is basically a mirrored configuration of my iMac. So I booted up my PowerBook as a Firewire drive off my iMac. (I forgot you could do this: you connect both computers via Firewire and boot up the "drive" computer by holding down the "T" key). Now all my laptop files - including all my apps, network config, etc. are happily copying over. I still have data files I'll be restoring from a combination of my iPod, DVDs and my .Mac account, but what I was truly dreading was re-installing all those applications. Apple Computer, you saved my bacon! (Or at least salvaged my weekend.)