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Just for future reference, beer/wine spills on a l...

woodm · 2013-11-19T16:03:30.245000

Just for future reference, beer/wine spills on a laptop ate usually covered by home-owners or renters insurance.

I use carbon copy. I migrate OSX by copying entire...

Slawek · 2013-11-19T19:47:31.401000

I use carbon copy.
I migrate OSX by copying entire drive from old laptop to portable drive. Then I boot new laptop from that portable drive and copy again from portable to internal drive. OSX upgrades drivers by itself.

Thanks for reminding me. Yes indeed, but the insur...

Steve · 2013-12-02T00:50:05.293000

Thanks for reminding me. Yes indeed, but the insurance company wouldn't migrate my data and applications to a new machine for me, I'm afraid, so I am still saddled with that task. The system has been used hard for three years including frequent international travel. It also has an intermittent issue when the display is no longer visible to the video drivers after entering sleep mode.

So, as my dear old Dad would have said, "it doesn't owe me anything" and a replacement was anyway due. The old machine I will either recondition and donate to a needy geek, or pass to Free Geek for re-use or recycling.

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