Moving to a new mac, what is the painless way to transfer contents of one m

Moving to a new mac and I'm pretty sure about how to go about doing it but thought I'd ask. Can I connect a firewire cable from old mac to new mac, connect network wise and take the home folder from the old computer and place it in the new home folder of my new mac? will this copy all my info from my old mac to my new mac and place everything in it's appropriate folder? Any help is greatly appreciated.

I would suggest you use the built-in application called Migration Assistant to transfer you data.
The first time you start up your new Mac, a screen will prompt you as to whether you'd like to transfer your data from your old mac. At that point you start up the old mac in target mode and connect it via Firewire to the new Mac. Then just follow the directions to transfer your data.
You can also choose to do the transfer at a later time. The Migration Assistant is always available in the /Applications/Utilities folder.
I strongly recommend against simply transfering your home folder from one computer to the other.

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