A good way to transfer data to new computer w/o direct access to old one?

Hi, I'm having a problem that I hope you guys could help me out with.
I'm about to buy a new Macbook and sell my iBook, and I want to transfer my entire system to the new computer. But it seems I will be selling the iBook before I get the Macbook, so I will have to store my data somewhere else in the meantime; and I obviously can't use the "transfer assistent" (is that what it's called in english?).
I have access to windows computers for storage, but not macs.
I also have .mac so I have Backup 3.0. Would a backup/restore solution work?
Help!

The easiest way would be to clone your entire drive to the Firewire drive using something like Carbon Copy Cloner (free) or SuperDuper (very inexpensive). Then you can hook it up to your new Mac and transfer the data as if the external Firewire drive were a Mac running in FW Target Disk mode. That's exactly how I transferred data from my old iMac to my new one (my old iMac was not capable of FW Target Disk mode, so I had to use an external FW drive).

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