New iMac - in with my Powerbook clone - procedure?

[homesick]

Well thanks for the time zone difference, I'm soon off to bed but I guess it's afternoon in y´the US now :-)

Anyway, well, it's OK if the source always wins because if I was working with my Powerbook on the train home and I do as you say - FW target boot the iMac, it'll get updated with the most recent changes I've made on the Powerbook. Vice versa - if I work on the iMac I could boot my Powerbook in the FW disk mode and clone using the direction iMac to Powerbook. All this is fine _but_ I think I've just realized there's a hook, a big one... :-)

I'm basicaly having my Powerbook "on" all the time, it only goes to sleep every night. I'm using Macaroni for the maintenance jobs and I sometimes leave the PB active during the night in order to let the OS X run it's own maintenance stuff during the night. This means that I'm rebooting maybe once, twice a month, mostly after the Pocket Mac freezes the Powerbook while syncing with the Pocket PC device I'm using. That's the only problem I'm having.

If I use the cloning back & forth as described above it would mean at least one reboot of each machine a day. MOst of the people I'm talking to are having their Macs on or asleep, they never turn them off really.

What's your opinion on this issue? Isn't it too much to reboot once a day (meaning not only for the hardware but also as a time consuming thing), and would you recommend using a sync program? I've noticed you mentioning the Chronos Sync somewhere on your site (hm, or in the manual/user guide...) as a good program.

Hm, I've just seen that my iMac would be coming with (installed) more recent versions of the software I have in my Powerbook. iLife is 06 now etc. I hope I'll be getting the CDs of these apps as well so I could update them in the Powerbook before I clone by erasing the iMacs HD content.....

Thanks :-)