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I've never had to use it myself but I've heard its ok.<br />
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Below is an Apple KB Article on how to use it:<br />
<a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413" rel="ugc nofollow">http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413</a><br />
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Personally I would always take a backup first. &nbsp;Just in case.
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I've never had to use it myself but I've heard its ok.

Below is an Apple KB Article on how to use it:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413 [http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4413]

Personally I would always take a backup first.  Just in case.

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How reliable is to use migration assistant if I want to switch from my Snow Leopard MacBook Pro (mid 2009) to Lion Macbook Pro (Retina)?
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How reliable is to use migration assistant if I want to switch from my Snow Leopard MacBook Pro (mid 2009) to Lion Macbook Pro (Retina)?

Migration Assistant, reliability

Mac OS X is the desktop operating system from Apple Inc., found on Macintosh computers. OS X consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, operating system interfaces primarily based on FreeBSD and additional frameworks (written in C, C++ and Objective-C providing user interface and application-level services.