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my advice would be to ask u.

that probably doesn't help much.....

Seems like it should be easy, but I can't confirm it at this point. I know Carbon Copy Cloner will NOT work. A free solution I found, but have not verified, is Winclone for mac view link

I am also checking with a few friends - this could be a useful piece of knowledge. I'll post the responses I get.

Thanks for asking.

Fred

Have no idea since I don't do windows, but congrats on your new Mac! Always so exciting to get the latest and greatest.

thanks, everyone. I found out the answer, in a backwards sort of way.

I'm typing this on my new and very fast Mini :)

Alas, not even Apple is immune from quality control 100% of the time. The power brick that came with my new Mini was DOA, so I swapped it out with the (same power setting) brick from my old Mini and it works fine. Apple is sending me a new one in a couple of days.

Now, on to the question I had.....When you get a new Mac, you're asked at the first power-up time whether you want to migrate anything. There are 4 options. I chose the "I'll do it later" option. In Utilities there's this thing called Migration Assistant, and all I need to do is connect both the new and the old Mini to the same wireless (or, wired) network, and by launching MAssistant on the new Minii, it'll search for the old account name I used on the old Mini, and it will copy everything from those folders (including, and this is cool! APPLICATIONS) to the new account on the new Mini. All you have to do is NOT use the same account names on the old and the new!

Done!

Now all I need is the patience to wait....

Pete

What? No Firewire target drive capability any more? Why should you have to wait for network transfer of all those gigabytes when a firewire/USB2 connection is faster? MA should still let you do it and not have to worry about the account name difference.

Aside from that, I found an app called WINCLONE that takes your Bootcamped Windows install and converts it into a moveable Mac file. The main purpose of this app is to record and archive your Win install, repartition your drive larger or smaller (you have to drop the Bootcamp partition and rebuild it) and reload it. In this case, you could literally move it between machines, create your Bootcamp partition and pick up where you left off. In my own case, I took a 32GB Windows install and upsized it to over 100GB with no complaint from Windows itself... it simply recognized that the partition was larger and adapted to it.

Sounds like Fred and Vulpine hit on the same app for you, Pete.

Doesn't sound like you're enjoying the new mini too much.....;-)

And thanks everyone for the info about Winclone!

I just love it when people talk technical!

I brought in the new Apple remote (it was extra - the Macs don't automatically come with them anymore) to show a buddy at the office, and by the end of the day, two coworkers were intensely asking me about the Mini and what it can do. I got a lot of "It CAN? I didn't know that."

Steve Jobs, you're welcome!

(vulpine - I have a 60gb B'camp partition now and I'll want to bump it up to 10gb also. What I also want to do, now that I have the horsepower, is use Parallels (free with a rebate, so I couldn't say "no"!) instead of the toggling with Bcamp)

Pete

An update....the new power brick is being Fedex'd to me as we speak. Target dated for delivery is Tuesday, 14DEC09.

Can't come soon enough.

One thing about the new Mini is it's speed of shutdown. With SLeopard, my OLD Mini would shut down in 6 to 7 seconds.

Ok, that was a big improvement over Leopard.

The new Mini shuts in 3 seconds!

Pete

I've been told (by my wife) that Parallels works fine with Bootcamp partitions. I tried to use VMWare's Fusion like that, and it 'stole' the partition, preventing me from Bootcamping in, but that was an older version. Parallels apparently lets you access the Bootcamped partition from OS X and still gives you the opportunity to run Windows solo through Bootcamp itself.

My issue with running Windows IN OS X is that the clock doesn't seem to be stable; I can try to edit a video and actually watch the clock hesitate during certain OS X calls, which disrupts the timing on the video. When you're trying to synch to a specific time hack for changing images in a slideshow, you don't want that hiccup. So, I use Windows through Bootcamp alone and do everything else in OS X.

vulpine,

I had the same issues with the Windows clock and the OS X clock. It's minor, but its an irritant more than anything else. I see it as a small inconvenience to pay for the luxury of using a Mac to run stuff like MS Visio!

Pete