migration experience with new imac

so like, this was the weirdest experience ever...

got the new 27" imac which is absolutely enormous. hurts my neck turning side to side to take everything in. i think they should curve the screen since it could wrap 180 around my head...  

ran time machine backup on the laptop with my external hard drive.

when it finished, I plugged external hard drive into the new mac.

clicked through the welcome stuff and chose to copy my files from a time machine backup.

took a little less than an hour to copy all the files...

and voila! everything is moved to my new imac, ready to go! desktop! settings! programs! files!

I am completely and totally sitting at my mac just as it was.  I could just jump right back into work! it remembers my passwords, settings for everything, etc. etc....  it is as if its whole brain just jumped two feet to the right (my laptop is two feet to the left).

amazing.

stupendous.

i love apple for making my life so easy.

I cringe to think what i would have been in for if I was running a PC...  just look at the windows XP -> windows 7 upgrade process: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/help/upgrading-from-windows-xp-to-windows-7 ... involves a clean install of windows 7, a reinstall of EVERY SINGLE application, re-setup of EVERY SINGLE setting, etc)...  It'd take a full day just to get going again and another week or so of tweaks to get things back the way you like it...

just... wow...