Can I trade Macbook Pro's and all it's contents with another one?

Does anyone know how to trade MacBook pros? My wife and I want to swap macbooks it that possible to swap all their contents?

It's possible but not quick, you will need to make a complete backup of each Mac, then erase them both, then restore the backups to the machine you want them to be on.
Unless you have 10.7 or newer you will also need the original discs that came with the machine(s)
You will also need 2 external drives to house the backups until restored.

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