I love getting a new computer (and I hate it)

Over the weekend I picked up a new Mac Book Pro and my girlfriend got a Mac Book. We’d been talking about these purchases for a few months now and finally decided to just make the jump. She’d been fighting with an old HP laptop and I’d just gotten sick of my pre-Intel iMac.
I love setting up new computers, determining how it is better than my old one, yada, yada, yada…..
I also hate the process at the same time because I’m so afraid I’m going to miss migrating some piece of data. I wanted to avoid the Apple Migration assist tool because it was going to migrate some applications I didn’t want anymore as well as mess up the licensing of those apps.
This makes the moving of an iTunes library a bit problematic to you can to retain your play counts, ratings and such. Eventually I just copied the entire library to the new machine and did a find/replace in the iTunes library XML file to change the path of the files.
Two days and I’m still not completely migrated from my old machine but I’m almost there.

(file under useless post about what I’m doing)