...at the office yesterday. I brought it home and took it for a test spin. It sure will be nice to get the 250 Gb disk instead of the 160 Gb one that is in the temporary machine I've been using up until now, especially since I will "lose" 100 Gb to the Windows partition.
I opened up the new machine and boosted the memory with the Kingston chips that were delivered with the temporary machine, so now it has 4 Gb, which should be more than enough for the dual boot.
My main problem (which, incidentally, is a premiere illustration of the Swedish phrase "typiskt i-landsproblem", that translates to approximately "typical industrialized country problem", meaning that it wouldn't qualify as a problem in any part of the world where there are real problems, such as war, poverty, etc. Rather - even calling it a problem is a symptom of the type of narrow-mindedness that comes from unchallenging life circumstances. Ok, let's not slip too far into politics and linguistics...) now, is to decide which way to go:
a) use the Migration Assistant to migrate the information from the temporary machine to the new one. Advantages to this include that it's faster (hopefully) and that I will get all settings migrated. Disadvantages is that I will not have full control of the process, but that's just typical control freak behaviour... Another big disadvantage is that I feel that there is a risk that Windows XP will not be as easy to migrate as the OS X stuff. On the other hand, it will be a great way to learn from experience. :-)
b) I use this blog to manually set up the new machine, step by step. The advantage of this is that it gives full control, but the main disadvantage is that it is boring to do it all over again.
From the bias I detect when reading what I wrote above, I conclude that I will probably go for a), unless my support guy Anders scares me away from it, by pointing out that it is risky. One option is to go for a) but have Anders do it, but that sort of feels like resigning from power of my own situation (like I said, I'm a control freak...)
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