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I recently bought a new MacBook Pro to replace my old one. Both have the same Computer Name (as shown in the Sharing tab of System Preferences). The older one backed up to my Time Capsule as Stuart Field's MacBook Pro.sparsebundle.What will happen if I turn on Time Machine for the new computer? Will it just append to the old sparsebundle? Or will it create a new one with a different name? I would prefer to have the new machine have the same name as the old one.

It will create a new one, unless you get the "Would you like to reuse the backups" prompt and select the "Reuse" option. See #B5 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting for details.
The 2 sparse bundles will have the same name, but internally each carries the hardware address of the associated Mac, so Time Machine will always know which one is which. If you ever have to do anything directly with the sparse bundles, however, you may have some trouble figuring that out. Thus I'd strongly suggest using names that are at least slightly different.

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