Move hd from 1 mac to another

I have just bought a new macbook pro, my Macpro hd is the same 10.7.4, but, it has all the apps, firewall and mail etc that I would like on my macbook pro. Is there a way to just copy my macpro hd onto my macbook pro? Other than migration
Tks Gary

This should give you some options:
http://pondini.org/OSX/Setup.html
Ciao.

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