It will. Mine is.
I used the
SuperDuper! transfer. Granted make sure you have a clean clone. I assume you have no problems with your previous computer, but if there is any "crap" you do not want, you might as well get rid of it.
Due to both paranoia and circumstances, I have more than one
Ex-HD and clone daily with
SuperDuper!. Yay. Praise me. PRAISE ME! [Get on with it!--Ed.]
What I did was, of course, back everything up.
I thought my older Macbook was dead as in logic board dead. It decided to start working again . . . it has done this before. Rather than waste $$$ replacing what seemed obvious, I upgraded. I blather that because
djackmac may not be completely wrong: you and I have unique circumstances: two working Macbooks.
Technically, I could have taken my relatively new
Int-HD in my OLD Macbook which is BETTER
and [Get on with it!--Ed.] right in my current Macbook but that made the dealer's head explode--he cannot sell a computer without a HD.
If you want to be super-safe have TWO
Ex-HD. That way, migration assistant your Current You from
Clone I--let it update, let
Lion update. Yay.
Now
clone that back to
Clone I. This is "You" in
Lion. Maybe you will like it. Maybe not, but if everything goes wrong and
djackmac and
Delta start dancing the "I Told You So!" dance, you can simply go back. Obviously, or not so obviously, you are cloning the YOU partition and NOT the
Lion recovery.
Do not touch the
Lion Recovery Partition. Leave it alone. It is happy. You are happy. We are all happy. Except for Cleveland.
Neat! Now I could actually BOOT my updated Mac from my
Snow Leopard clones. So I simply booted from a clone--your
Clone II. I then opened
Disk Utility,
erased the
Lion YOU--leaving, of course, the
Recovery Partition. Format the partition, name it and all of that.
Now use
SuperDuper! to simply cleanly clone
Clone II to your
You Partition. Ta-dah!
There are easier ways of doing this, but this avoids the consequences of frell-ups.
At any time you wish to go to
Lion . . . and we all will . . . someday . . .
. . . you can either go to your
Recovery Partition and recover. I have done that . . . twice . . . testing it.
Or you can use your
Lion clone, but it will be a few weeks/months old and not have your latest French Fungus Porn.
HOWEVER [No shouting!--Ed.]
One issue you will have is if you want a stand-alone
Lion on a "stick" or DVD as the Local Here-Tell. See, I had every intention of plopping down the $30 for
Lion until I had to upgrade the computer, and discovered the issues
Lion has which I "don't wike."
So . . . like . . . can I . . . you know . . . convert my
Lion Recovery to . . . you know . . . a "stick." Apparently not. You still have to BUY
Lion and do all of that. Granted IF you have clones, you really do not have to worry about recovery unless you are trapped on an island/basement without your clones and you need to recover something. But that is what your
Recovery Partition is for.
Now where
djackmac is correct is if you simply boot on your
Snow Leopard DVD and try to load it, you will get the "No Chance Fat Pig!" response. I did not bother erasing with
SL DVD
Disk Utility and then trying, but I suspect that does not work somehow.
Again, you and I are unique in that we have bootable clones. Which is why I rant and rave about the utility of spray cheese and a good defense against a two-front war . . . no . . . wait . . . why I rant about creating
bootable clones.
You could do this with one clone, obviously, but on the odd chance the 15" does not boot while the 13" does, you are stuck having to erase and recover from the
Lion Partition.
--J.D.
