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Apple Providing Free Data Migration With a Mac Purchase or Repair (macrumors.com)
Apple is now offering data migration services for free when customers purchase a new Mac or need to have a Mac replaced for repair reasons. Prior to this month, data migration was priced at $99. From a report: Beginning April 2, there will be no cost for Data Migrations with the purchase of a new Mac or Data Transfers with a repair. Data migration was included as a feature in Apple's One to One program, which was shut down in 2015. One to One allowed customers to pay $99 when purchasing a new Mac to get a year's worth of instruction and help. When Apple ended One to One, data migration was still available as a one-time $99 service.
I sure wouldn't want the responsibility of transferring everything from an older computer to a newer one on a regular basis. Easy for a system migrator to miss something a user stuck in an odd place... or if apps don't work on the new system in the same way, you have to talk through all the changes with the user.
So my hat is off to the techs that have to handle this...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
In a cost-saving measure, Apple will be contracting out the data migration tasks to the NSA.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Data migration -= 99
Mac purchase += 99
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I found out later that this person had the (very bad) habit of "hiding" ALL their "Document" files in C:\Windows\Temp (!!!!!!!)
That is exactly what I mean, very possible a user has stuff some unexpected things in a system directory somewhere that you (or a migration tool) did not touch. I've seen similar things a lot of times from untechnical people so I do not think it's even that rare.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
run Migration Assistant for you
I agree that's probably all they are really doing... but then after that to claim that the person is safe to wipe the old system? I sure would not claim that without having a real careful look at the completeness of the migration, I think I've had it miss stuff before that I wasn't even keeping in some strange place.
I can't even bring myself to wipe a system I used 20 years ago out of fear I forgot to copy something forward. The scary thing is sometimes I look through really old drives and still find some files I would have sworn I moved but cannot find anywhere else.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Yes, but only to Compact Cassettes. Hipsters love tape and they wouldn't want your data to lose their warmth and roundness.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
Will they cover the data migration from my PDP 10 tapes for free?
It's not mentioned. So you could ask Apple to migrate a data center if you wish.
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Apple tends to not do stuff without a specific reason. It may not be a good reason (Stop trying to make laptops thinner FFS!), but they have a reason.
If it involves introducing a free service, that really makes me wonder what's going on behind the scenes. Apple doesn't do things for free, simply because they don't have to. Their last quarter saw a 2% drop in mac sales. They've since released some yawn-worthy refreshes of their hardware, so I'm wondering if we can expect to see another drop in quarterly mac sales.
I know I won't touch any of their new MBPs, and will never consider them again, until they pull their collective heads out and accept their current generation of keyboards are mechanical and ergonomic disasters.