06 Macbook Pro Coreduo - New Macbook Pro, Superduper Question

I sold my old macbook pro this weekend. It was from March just after they released the first intel machines and before I sold it I used superduper to clone the internal drive to an external. I had planned to just plug the external into my new macbook pro 2.4 boot from the external and copy the old system back to the internal drive. The old one had the retail box version of Leopard. I just want to make sure that there is no reason I can't do that. I was a little concerned that perhaps something in the chip architecture meant that I couldn't just use the old drive image. I think I am fine but if anyone can confirm, it would make me feel better.

There is a reason not to do that - installations of the OS are build-specific. You probably won't do harm, but you'll be missing features (e.g. options for controlling the multitouch trackpad, which recognizes up to four fingers for different gestures on the new MBP).
Instead, I'd recommend using Migration Assistant to move your files from the external drive to the mew MBP - you'll be given that option by the Setup Assistant, and it will work well in your case (it's a bad idea to Migrate a PPC machine to an Intel machine, a not-great-but-still-probably-ok option to Migrate a Tiger intel machine to a Leopard Intel machine, but fine to Migrate Intel+Leopard to newer-Intel+Leopard). Migration Assistant will pull all your apps, files, music, settings, etc., over from the backup clone to the new machine.

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