Backup and Restore between different systems

ALCON:
I am considering to get a new desktop Mac soon, and currently my only Mac is my MacBook Pro 17", which I use daily.
One of the things that I hope to accomplish (though not the reason for the purchase) is to freshen my configuration by installing all my applications and moving my data to the new machine so as it get it more organized. Once this is accomplished, what architectural or other issues would I run into if I made a full Time Machine backup of say an iMac, and then tried to restore it to a MacBook Pro so I had a duplicate of my new configuration/installation on the MacBook Pro then?

Baltwo:
Hey no problem on the mixup concerning my intentions.
I am not sure I follow your English exactly, but "f you migrate from the old on initial boot with the new one, none of that stuff won't transfer. " means using Setup Assistant on the new Mac Pro to migrate from the MBP, exactly what "none of that stuff won't transfer"?
1) If I migrate from MBP to Mac Pro, will it migrate my applications or just my data?
(bear in mind, both are Intel systems, and both will be running the same version of MacOS)
2) The /Library directory has more than just cache files, it has many other things in it, for example I have seen customer's systems where they had Adobe help files in their from versions of Adobe software they had long since uninstalled. To what extent does the /Library and other such (local user libraries too) get migrated?
3) You have given me another idea, which is that once I get the Mac Pro properly setup, why not just do the reverse? Install a fresh MacOS onto the MBP, and pretend I am "migrating back" (from Mac Pro to MBP) using Setup Assistant? Let Apple's software worry about making it work, ay?!!
Thanks again, I shall do some more research but you have given me some food for though, and some good ideas too with regard to how to leverage Setup Assistant to my advantage more fully.
Stuart

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