Some quick notes on migrating to one mac from another…. this is more for me but if you happen upon this from Google and find it useful your welcome in advance.
1. The migration assistant is useful, just don’t plan on it being fast. (3.5 hours for 130GB of user data)
2. Uninstall carbonite first on the old machine… make sure it’s not in the transfer over…. it will end up being a pain in the ass. (for the record you have enable root user in the directory utility and then delete the Carbonite folder in “Library/Application Support” (don’t forget to turn off root mode when your done)(also reboot after you delete the folder and before you reinstall… don’t ask just roll with it))
3. Clean up files on your old mac first… take the time and go through the User/%username%/Library folders and clean up the folders from that isn’t there anymore, also take this time to go through your applications folder and delete things that transfer over that really shouldn’t like firmware updates and the such.
4. Just like do a clean reload on a OS upgrade all of your stuff comes over (see part about transfer utility)
4a. Microsoft want’s it registration keys for it’s software again. (stupid outlook)
4b. Vmware does not and it’s sooooooo much faster.
I haven’t even gotten to the point of boot-camp yet so I’m sure there will be a bit out here about that…. the preview of that is I took a winclone snapshot of my environment and am hoping to create a boot-camp partion and then over lay the win-clone on that…. we will see how that works out for me….