Is it possible to clone an intel Mac to a M1 (with Carbon Copy Cloner)?

[Analog Kid]

As the title, I want to clone my 2019 iMac to my MacBook Air M1. Using Carbon Copy Cloner usually is very easy and fast but with these damn beautiful ARM chips is not possible to boot the Mac like it‘s an external disk, so I have no idea on how to clone my imac to the MacBook. I suspect it’s impossibl, I don’t want to use migration assistant but I think is the only way... any other ideas?

I took a boot drive from a PPC Mac, suck it in an Intel Mac and it came up without hesitation. The OS was PPC/Intel Universal. I don’t know if Monterrey is.

 

[lcubed]

Where your sessions etc. all still logged in when you turned on M1 after the migration?

Did you have to set anything up or all was as if you never changed anything and its just somehow new computer

i truly don't remember. did the migration nearly a year ago

 

[philosopherdog]

I did this with superduper. Cloned the intel and just use the migration assistant and point it to your image. I prefer superduper after having switched from ccc. I had a small issue with Xcode and just reinstalled it. I have used super to restore in other ways but since you’re switching to a new architecture using migration and just point it at the bootable image. Worked for me.

 

[AndrewWx]

I did this with superduper. Cloned the intel and just use the migration assistant and point it to your image. I prefer superduper after having switched from ccc. I had a small issue with Xcode and just reinstalled it. I have used super to restore in other ways but since you’re switching to a new architecture using migration and just point it at the bootable image. Worked for me.

Why do you prefer SuperDuper?

 

[darngooddesign]

As the title, I want to clone my 2019 iMac to my MacBook Air M1. Using Carbon Copy Cloner usually is very easy and fast but with these damn beautiful ARM chips is not possible to boot the Mac like it‘s an external disk, so I have no idea on how to clone my imac to the MacBook. I suspect it’s impossibl, I don’t want to use migration assistant but I think is the only way... any other ideas?

If it were just M1 to M1 Pro I would clone, but Intel to AS means I would manually set it up as new and copy everything over to avoid any legacy code causing possible problems.