Mac transfer question
 

Hey all:

Kind of a weird question, and if this is better suited for a Mac forum, let me know.

I have a big, powerful desktop iMac.

I had a MacBook Pro.

Said MacBook Pro was backed up onto an external hard drive.

When I sold my laptop, I wanted to load up the whole damn thing on my desktop.

So, I did a 'restore from backup' - and now my Mac looks and acts identical to my old laptop.

The problem is the ACT part. My Mac is now slow as hell, and it seems to be running as poorly as my laptop was running before I got rid of it.

The damn thing is a shell of it's former self. I think my Mac is running as a laptop!

Any ideas how to keep all the good from my laptop, yet get my Mac to run as it should?

Off the top of my head (and not being a Mac guy) I'd suspect that whatever things you had on your laptop that made you dissatisfied with it are now running happily (and slowly) on your iMac.

Before I would do what is effectively a clone of one computer to another, I'd make sure the source computer was all squeaky clean. Otherwise, you're just inheriting whatever creepies and uglies were in the source computer.

I know - Mac's are immune from virii (as we've all been told so many times here :)) but still ...

If it were me, I'd have just transferred the data files from the external hard drive, and re-install any programs that were necessary.

Do we have a Mac forum here?

When you restored the new machine from the old machine, that included all the settings, apps, startup apps, etc from the old machine.

You should consider doing a clean install on the new machine, then restore your home directory to get your files, and install fresh versions of applications that you need, and as you go you will remember to setup the settings you want on the new machine.

Make sure you have a full working backup first.

-David