Yeah its easy, you just clone your system disk onto it, or you do a clean install of the OS and point it usb disk when it asks where you are installing. Macs are very happy to boot from almost any device you can connect to them.
One big caveat though is that solid state disks and usb pen drives are not necessarily the same when it comes to performance, and you will really want 64Gb as a minimum size for the system and apps. Get the free blackmagic disk speed test app from the apple app store and test out the speed of your proposed target drive, and use the program carbon copy cloner (recently commercialized) used to be free if you want to clone your existing system over. I strongly suspect USB2 will be a bottleneck and feel too slow though, USB3 or thunderbolt would be awesome! On 26 July 2012 15:47, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Is it possible to use a USB stick, one of those small things that stick in > the USB 2.0 sockets in the back of my iMac, as an OS X Startup Disk? Given > that solid state is much faster than HDD and that you can buy 32GB for > about £15 would it be a handy way of getting a speedier Mac? I have a nasty > feeling that there's some hideous catch though ... > > Yours curiously, > > Stephen > > > "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination" - John Lennon > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
