Ever restore an old Mac (Core Duo) to a new mac (Core 2 Duo)?

I recently sold my old first gen MBP and bought a new MBP. It should arrive Thursday. Now, the question I have is, can I just use the System Restore feature from the System Disc to restore all my applications from my Time Machine backup(notably, Adobe CS, MS Office, iWork), or will there be any issues with the fact that the old Mac was 32 bit, and the new one is 64? Will there be any other issues, like with Creative Suite, for example, and it's registration? Doing that the first time was a pain in the backside. I am not looking forward to digging these disks out of storage (have moved twice since I installed all of this, so it is SERIOUSLY buried in a mountain of junk) and doing it again. I really need to buy the newer versions of these apps, but after putting out 3k for the laptop, my wife will kill me if I spend another $1000). Has anyone done this? Any advice? I am thinking of trying it, see how it works, and if it goes poorly, start from scratch.
Cheers

New MacBook Pro arrived today. I tried to use the Time Machine back up directly attached to the mac via USB, and it failed over and over. It recognized it was a time machine back up, but still failed with the message "Not a valid Time Machine Backup". I finally skipped the restore, set up the mac, then used the Migration Assistant to do the same thing, and this time it worked like a charm. Everything, including Photoshop, worked great, EXCEPT, that I forgot to de-authorize my old iTunes account, and some iPhone apps didn't want to move to the mac. They run fine on the iPhone still tho.

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Hello!
Ive had my Macbook since early 08 and am finally going to get a new one! This one is quite slow, it takes forever to "think", the rainbow ball is spins a lot. I currently use time machine to back up my macbook, and have a few questions: If I load my current hd onto the new Macbook, will it be slow like this one? Once I get a new macbook, I will erase the content on this one, will it still be slow? It has a new, large hard drive, so Im not sure why its so slow! Is this the processor slowing down? Im not too computer savvy
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Read this and choose what you think serves your interests best:
http://pondini.org/OSX/Setup.html
It is best to reinstall non Apple applications later. You should be able to install a new OS at anytime you choose without any affect in your data. With that said, always have a backup.
Ciao.

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''cor-el [[#answer-716602|said]]''
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Did you only lose the extension or did you lose other personal data and settings as well?
You would normally only lose the extensions if you create a new profile folder, either via a reset/refresh or possibly because of problems with the profiles.ini file.
With a reset you would have an "Old Firefox Data" folder on the desktop.
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Restore from an old Mac

If I want to restore my files from an old Mac to a new one, do I have to restore everything in my account or could I sellect which files and aplications to copy?
Can I choose, for example to copy only the Mail and iTunes' files or do I have to restore the whole Home account?
Thanks in advance!

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You need to "authorize" the Mac.
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hi
Tomorrow i am getting a new Mac Pro 8 core 2.8, the basic model, 2 gigs ram (for now) and the on 320 gig HD. I am not a great mac person, i used my old one for some final cut express stuff and that was about it. so i was wondering if someone could answer these questions for me
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ok, that should confuse me pretty well for a while
thanks for any help!

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2. Any SATA drive can be installed in the computer.
3. New computers come with OS X and iLife pre-installed. Also trial versions of iWork, MS Office, and Quicken's Quick Books.
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Can I still use my "old" Mac after restoring Time Machine backup to a new Mac?

Hi guys.
Will I still be able to use my old Macbook Pro 2008 (Leopard) after restoring his latest Time Machine backup on a new Macbook Pro 2012 (Lion)?
Using Setup Assistant and transfering data using Time Machine creats the same Account on the new machine that was on the old one. I just don't know how the old machine will react towards his clone. I don't want to make a mess...
Please let me know.
Thanks

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