Transfer from Powerbook to MacBook Pro

When I get my MacBook Pro will there be a problem using Migration Assistant to transfer my settings, files, etc. from my PowerBook to my MacBook Pro? I guess there's no reason it shouldn't...just didn't know if the settings from a non-Intel Mac would jibe with those of an Intel Mac!

Migration Assistant is a mixed bag -- on the one hand, it does a great job of transferring over a wide variety of settings & preferences, mail accounts, etc.
On the other hand, I've had some problems with it. After using it, I had the following problems:
1. Screwed up printer drivers (solution: resinstall from OSX DVD)
2. Spotlight index not working (solution : force rebuild of entire index using terminal)
3. It copied over some KEXTs and Login Items that were not universal binary Stuffit, etc. (solution : look at system.log for errors on boot, and remove or update those items).
A coworker and I both got MBPs this week. I used Migration Assistant -- he copied his files over by hand. Neither way was perfect. I had the problems listed above, whereas he would occasionally have the "oops, I forgot to copy my file" problem.

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I'm updating to a new 2014 macbook pro. am i better off using a migration assistant from one to another, or restoring from Time Machine (with ethernet to thunderbolt adapter)? Or some other method?
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ptkmac

keg55 wrote:
I have used the Setup Assistant during setup of OS X and I would use a current Time Machine back up to point to during Setup Assistant. I have also manually copied data and apps over from another Mac while on my network. Both take some time and both were equally successful.
So, you have a choice after backing up your current Mac:
Have both Macs on your network, run setup on your new Mac and afterwards manually copy files from the old to the new Mac.
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I'll back up a bit here for a second... I"m not experiencing any problems (kernel panics, etc.) but not sure if the system now is as it should be. Hindsight being what it is I should have made a CCC copy of the shipped volume of Mavericks; if this is an issue.
The system seems to be running fine, and some of my "issues" (for lack of a better term) could be just the way the new Mid 2014 MBPro is handling things - like memory allocation (i.e. using close to the 16 GB most of the time) and kernel_task using 1 GB of memory - more at times). Possibly if I wasn't a regular watcher of Activity Monitor I would just be plodding along, since the system seems to be working fine. Occasionally some apps or their processes take a longer than I feel is what should be normal to do, hence looking at the Activity Monitor to see what is going on.
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Thanks in advance for any ideas, suggesting, etc. Also, to the person who posted to my other question on this another thanks for those suggestions. None of which I've done - yet.
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Sunflower5-
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