I recently bought my wife a new laptop running Windows 8. We created a
Microsoft account for her and did some setup before deciding to return
that laptop and get a more powerful model. When we setup the new laptop
the experience was almost exactly what you described below. We entered
her Microsoft account information, a pass code was sent to her email and
when she entered that passcode into her new Windows machine, her account
was setup, her email was configured, her apps were downloaded and so on.
On 08/21/2014 01:35 PM, M. Taylor wrote:
Hello All,
I am the proud new owner of a MacBook Pro with Retina Display.
One of my greatest concerns, being a Windows user, was the difficulty I
would encounter transferring the contents including passwords and system
preferences from my old MacBook to the new one.
Now I have used the Migration Assistant in the past, when assisting friends,
but not without some minor problems said problems including duplicated user
account errors, etc.
Before purchasing the new Mac, I decided to configure and enable the
keychain on both my iPhone and my old Mac.
I would be lying if I stated that I totally understand all of the nuances of
the keychain but, somewhere along the line I must have enabled security
authorization from my iPhone.
As a result, during the setup process on the new Mac, I was asked to enter
my iCloud keychain security code. Upon doing this, I was sent a
verification code via SMS to my iPhone. Upon entering this verification
code into the new Mac, everything, and I mean everything was configured as
it was on the old Mac.
The migration was flawless and, unlike on my beloved Microsoft Windows,
painless as well.
Mark
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