So have you recently got yourself a brand new macbook pro just like this one right here and you
want to get it to this screen here with all your documents and all your apps moved all over from
one mac to another or moving all your data from a windows computer to another well this video is
for you today i'm going to show you how to set up your macbook pro with a step-by-step guide
Hi guys it's matt here, so that's right today i'm going to show you a step-by-step guide on how to
set up your brand new or even your pre-owned macbook pro and this can also be used for a
macbook air or any of the macbook line and all you need to make sure you've done is get your macbook
up to the latest version of mac os and what we're going to do in this video is get from this page
here to a setup macbook pro here with moving all your documents over from one macbook to another
or if you're coming from a windows laptop or pc and how to move your document over to your brand
new mac that way well without further ado let's get started so the first thing i'd recommend
is making sure you definitely have your power connected into it so with your magsafe connector
or whatever like that and as you can see here you've got all the different languages coming
along so this basic means that you are ready to go all you have to do is just press the arrow
down the button doesn't matter if your language hasn't appeared because on the next page is where
your language will appear so you can choose from multiple different languages that you'd like to
choose from so i'm english and funny enough i'm a funny person oh we have the auto sort of volume
person talking over siri there so i'm gonna click actually english uk use british english as the
main language press the return key i'm going to see if i can actually turn that off in a second
because i don't actually need voiceover to help me so i'm going to press uk english
and we'll just let this load a second and then we get to choose which country we're from so i'm
going to scroll down to united kingdom because that is where i live so i'm going to select that
and click continue and like i said what you can do is you can select what you want
and which country you're from next we have accessibility and this helps you set up the
settings if you want to do that right here so you can help with vision motor functions hearing and
cognitive so obviously i don't need it i'm okay so i'm going to click not now but it's good to see
that these options are here in the actual setup so next of all we need to connect to a wi-fi so
i'm going to connect to my wi-fi quickly so i'm just going to select that and put my password in
you would just need to do the same you just select your one put your username or password in
or whatever you need to do and then once you put your password in for your wi-fi you can connect
so i'm just going to put my one in right now and once connected you'll get this data and privacy
coming up um so you can just read that if you want to get a bit more information if you wanted to do
that and it will tell you about all the different bits and pieces about how apple handle your data
we're going to click continue next and next is the migration assistant now the great thing about this
migration assistant is that you can actually transfer from a mac time machine backup or a
startup disk or from even a windows pc now using it from a mac or time machine backup or startup
disk especially from the mac and time machine you can actually move over a lot of your apps as well
especially also in your time machine backup if you have decides to back up your apps if you said no
then they won't come over but it moves everything over like for like from one mac to another was
absolutely incredible now the startup disk it won't do that a startup disk will just basically
migrate kind of your initial settings and then from a windows pc it's very similar again it will
just move your data over and probably your name over so you can select whatever option you want
so for me i'm going to select from a mac i have another macbook pro 13 inch what you saw at the
beginning of this video so i'm going to migrate that over to this brand new 14 inch macbook pro
so next of all we have the migration assistant and this allows us to transfer all our data from our
old mac to our new mac or if you've got a windows pc or laptop you can transfer a lot of your data
over to this one as well so on this one here if you've got from a mac or time machine backup
you can actually transfer your apps over from a mac to a mac you cannot transfer windows apps
to a mac they're just not compatible so you can select whatever you want here but
main thing that's the most important is your data so your data will get transferred over for
whatever option you pick so for me i'm going to transfer from a mac because i've got a 13
inch macbook pro what you saw at the beginning of this video so i'm just going to select this
so as you can see here it's looking to transfer information from another macbook and it's looking
to do this wirelessly now one of the fastest ways to migrate your data from one macbook pro
to another is to actually use a thunderbolt cable like this or a usbc to usb c end thunderbolt cable
and all you have to do is just basically plug it into one end of your older macbook like this
and then connect it into your other end of your macbook and then basically you can transfer the
data over super fast by doing it this method and i definitely recommend doing this if you
do have a thunderbolt cable and if you've got yourself an older macbook say from about say 2016
onwards and you've got one of these usbc cable that actually has thunderbolt technology inside
it so you can just use that cable to transfer your data from one macbook to another so i've
got the other macbook pro next to this macbook pro here so i'm going to start up the migration
assistant and you can open up migration assistant it will be in your applications
it's all built into every mac or you can just do a search for it and the spotlight once you've
got it open you just open it up on your old mac you might have to put your password in possibly
but once you're inside it you just want to pick the selection to transfer your information to
another mac so once i've selected this on my old macbook pro you can see now straight away it's
become discoverable on my new macbook pro so i'm just going to select that macbook pro here and
i'm going to click continue now like i said you don't have to do this via cable you can do this
over wi-fi i'm doing it over the cable because it's far faster but you can do it over your wi-fi
it just might take a little bit longer but i'm in a rush so i'm going to do it over thunderbolt
and i know it's really really quick doing it this way so i'm going to click continue next of all
and then it's also saying this is apple beta software to move over so i'm just going to click
continue anyway we've got the same kind of code here it's been moved over so that's absolutely
fine i'm happy with that i'm going to continue that and then what's going to start to happen now
it's going to connect to my other macbook pro and on my other macbook pro it is now grabbing all my
data ready to send this over so now it's going to calculate everything that needs to be transferred
over and how much it's going to take in my storage so as you can see here it's 236 gigabytes
i'm going to have that much space left over i'm happy with that so i'm going to click continue and
uh basically i can set my password for my user so i'm just going to do that quickly and then after
this we can just click continue agree to the terms conditions agree to them again and then
it gets there eventually it should start migrating the data over from one macbook to the other
so it's going to leave us run for a little bit and there we have it it's starting to
transfer my documents first of all from the old macbook pro to this one i'm going to let
this run so i'm going to stop the video and just let everything transfer over
so the migration is still completing and it might just do a quick reboot while it's doing that
migration and then once that reboot is completed you'll get back to the main screen here as you can
see it just takes a second to load and it's just transferring the last bit of the data over and
then once it's completed it will say migration completed so what we can do is click done
we can disconnect the old macbook if we wanted to do that and here we are all my data has been
moved over so i'm just going to put my password in and with my password now in i'm just going
to go into my brand new macbook pro for the first time now the first time this works it might take
a second or two to do this because it might take a little bit longer um to get everything onto it
as you can see here there's a window coming up very very shortly in a second this wouldn't
normally happen the first time you actually log into your macbook pro every time you turn it on
so let's just let this run so it's just asking me to put my password in for my icloud i'm just
going to do that and it's just setting up my icloud account it would do the same for you guys
the next question is for fire volt disk encryption and i definitely recommend this to have this so
this will encrypt all your data on your hard drive and you can unlock it with your i cloud if
you wanted to do that so i'm going to say yes i'm happy with that and i'm going to click continue
also we can set up our touch id so i'm just going to quickly do that it's in the top right corner oh
i don't do it later i want to set it up sorry so i'm going to put my fingerprint on
wow it's really responsive on this macbook pro 14 inch i've got here so i'm just going to do that
putting my finger on it's just going to capture my finger in a few more different places you could do
the exactly the same i'm going to click continue and there we go everything is setting itself up
now so we've got some programs already trying to set themselves up i'm just going to click later on
that i've got my all my apps and everything have been moved over really well over to this macbook
pro everything is exactly the same thing here exactly the same layout as my old macbook pro
in fact if i'll just show you here if i go about this mac you can see here this is a macbook pro
14 inch with an apple m1 pro inside it and all my data is moved over if i go to my documents
here all my documents have been moved over successfully so i'm really really happy with this
and there we have it guys we've successfully migrated an old mac to a newer mac and it works
absolutely perfectly and that is how easy it is to set up a brand new macbook pro macbook air or
any macbook out there from about 2015 onwards for anyone that you're going to buy brand new
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