Last night I bought a new Macbook, one of the swanky new ones Apple just released.

As an experiment, I let Time Machine do a complete backup of my old Mac before powering up the MacBook.

When it was done, I plugged in the Time Machine drive, powered up the new MacBook and select import from Time Machine backup.

Having over 70 gigs of of data, I headed for the couch and enjoyed Spiderman 3.

Later I returned to see how things fared.

One word, wow!

Nearly everything was there, working correctly. Bookmarks, iTunes, Password, Applications.

Virtually flawless.

You have to endure numerous authorizations to tell Keychain to let applications access the passwords, but it all works.

There is one caveat though - developer tools was only partially copied, including some I had installed in /usr/local.

Firing up DVD and reinstalling the developer tools from the Leopard disk fixed that in couple minutes.

Very very impressive for a first release!

I not imagine not using Time Machine from now on. It is reason enough for anyone to upgrade to Leopard.