2015 Macbook Pro to M1/M2 Macbook Air - how much space to take Time Machine Back up on new one.

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Might be a basic question but can't find help online. My 2015 Macbook Pro is almost full and it's time to upgrade anyway. Given I have c. 450gB of stuff on existing hard drive how much of that will be transferred and so how big does storage need to be on new Macbook? I use a Lacie 1tB external drive as time machine for the moment.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Aug 19, 2022 4:53 AM

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woodmeister50

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Posted on Aug 19, 2022 5:29 AM

Two options:

Free up space on your current drive by off loading much of your data to an external drive. The biggest space consumers are generally video libraries, music libraries, and photo libraries all of which can easily run on an external. Also, making migrating to the new Mac easy since all you need to do is plug in the drive with all that data and link the apps to them.
Order the the Mac with a 1TB drive.

Option one is much cheaper.

As for a Time Machine drive, it should generally be 3 times or more than the amount of data that you will have on the Mac.

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