Migrating to a new Mac....

[Adam Pymble]

Friends,

About to get a new Macbook (not quite sure which, yet) - provided by new job.

My current MBPro (13" Touchbar) is ok, but often the fans fire up and sound like a 747. I'm regularly in Activity Monitor killing cryptically titled tasks!

I wondered if there's any tips on migrating from old to new, whilst conscious I don't want any 'bugs' or dodgy extension that's causing fans in to overdrive, to migrate too?!?!

Thanks

[Paul R Owen]

Hi Adam,

Not all MacBooks are fitted with fans these day. The CPUs are very efficient and do not produce much heat.

My MacBook Air has an M4 chip and no fan. I understand this model is now fitted with an M5. 

Paul Owen

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[Sam - MacAmbulance]

Killing processes is never a good idea, they’ll only re-spawn to complete whichever tasks they’ve been assigned to complete. Intel-based Macs are 1000x slower than the Apple-Silicon based Macs, so I wouldn’t worry about it, just migrate using an external Time Machine backup, or direct via a thunderbolt cable (wifi’s fine in a pinch but can take a while)

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On 26 Aug 2026, at 14:22, Adam Pymble <adamp...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Adam Pymble]

Thanks all.

So you're less worried there's some gremlin causing the fans and I can migrate away?

And in that case, I presume any setup wizard on the new Mac (it's been a while) will give me options and I just plug in a cable (thunderbolt port to thunderbolt port)

[Sam - MacAmbulance]

Migration’s automatic and very easy yes. From an external drive with a Time Machine backup is definitely the easiest 

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[Adam Pymble]

All done. Painlessly, just as Sam advised!

Simply plugged in the TimeMachine et voila!

Thanks so much