Can I sync new iPhone5 from old iPhone4 in iTunes on new computer?

I have an old iPhone4 & a new iPhone5 that I am dying to use but my laptop with iTunes on it died before my new phone arrived & I am a bit technically challenged. I have been given the use of my cousin's old windows laptop & I have created a new user on the laptop and installed iTunes but I cannot see any of my music, aps etc on there so I am not sure if I’ve done it properly. I can view my account details and that’s it. So I don’t know if I’ve done it properly. I have iCloud and have set it up on the new laptop too, I can see my contacts & calendar but I cannot see photos in my Photo Stream album where it said they should be, which makes me wonder if I have set that up properly either. I really don’t want to lose my latest photos since syncing my phone the last time. I do not know if I am able to retrieve anything from my old laptop at this stage but I’d really like to start using my new iPhone in the interim of finding out. Can anyone help me? If plugged in my old iPhone4 into this new computer would it sync all my stuff on there into the iTunes on this new computer? And then would I be able to plug in my new iPhone5 to this computer & it would sync all my stuff on to the new phone?

iPhones are not backup devices.
Use the backup of the old computer to put everything on the new computer.
Then you can sync the new iPhone and get all the content on it.

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