[The old MBP was getting a little long in the tooth - it has developed some heat-related hardware faults such as wireless network failures and sticky keyboards keys. It was a 15-inch Early 2008 running Mac OS X 10.7.5, 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo, 4 Gb DDR2 667 MHz RAM, 200Gb SATA Disk, & NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GT 256Mb graphics. But at least it had an optical drive!]
Just for posterity, here's the list of things I needed to do to set it up:
- Apply OS updates to bring it up to the latest Mac OS X release
- Move over my GPG and SSH keys
- Install VirtualBox 4.2.14 and move over the VMs from my old laptop.
- Setup Mac Mail and Calendar to connect to the local Exchange server and to hit my Google accounts
- Install GPGTools
- Install Google Chrome
- Install Dropbox
- Install XCode (and then the Command-line Tools from inside XCode)
- Install Homebrew (and then a whole schwag of things: ack, bcrypt, berkeley-db, boost, cowsay, daemontools, gearman, git, glib, gnupg, graphviz, postgresql, python3, s3sync, sipcalc, sl, sqlite, wget etc :-)
- Install 1Password3 (moving the licence over)
- Install Caffeine
- Install Omnigraffle (moving the licence over)
- Install Things (moving the licence over)
- Install AppZapper2 (moving the licence over)
- Install BetterSnapTool (out of the Apple AppStore)
- Install Colloquy
- Install DBVisualiser
- Install SoapUI
- Transfer over ~/src, ~/Documents, ~/Downloads from my account on the old laptop
And then reimage the old laptop before handing it back.
