Help! new computer! new itunes! how to transfer stuff over?

ive bought a new laptop, all my iphones apps and music are synced with my previous laptop, have plugged my iphone in new laptop to sync and it wants to copy thatt libary on to my iphone which is empty, so will end up with nothing on my iphone! can anyone help? and tell me how to overcome this without having to keep my old laptop!

Same as you do every time you get a new computer. Move all of your information from the old computer to the new one.
You can use your backup copy for this .
You can go to the top of this page and click "Support", then type "move itunes library" into the search bar.
If you have a mac then you can use migration assistant to move everything over or just copy the entire itunes folder.

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