In the preceding articles in this series, I have laid down some principles and discussed various options for migrating between Macs. You may by now have some clear ideas as to how to go about this, but the very best way to understand the process is to consider some practical examples.
In each case, you may have your own ideas, tempered by your personal experience and capabilities. There are no solutions which are absolutely or exclusively right, although some that are clearly not going to work out well at all.
Upgrading from an old to a new MacBook Air
Provided that your old MacBook Air (MBA) is running High Sierra or later, this is probably performed most easily by connecting them back-to-back using Thunderbolt and letting Migration Assistant do the shifting for you.
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