New iMac-how to use old and new

So, I'm in the middle of migrating my settings from my old iMac to my new iMac. I've already started transfering my settings and applications.
I was going to give my old iMac to my husband, who now has a MacMini. After I started transferring, he told me I should just keep both iMacs for working. It would actually be convenient - Keep one for having browser, planning, mail, business apps open at all times and the other for heavy-duty Photoshop, etc. work.
What should I do to be able to work on both? Do I need to re-do my set up on the new  one? The settings and apps really should be the same any way - do I need to create a different user?

Do I need to set up a different user on each computer?
No
Right now, becuase I was in the process of migrating, the new iMac is a duplicate of what's on the old. Do I need to create a new user on one and delete it on the other? What happens if I have the users duplicated?
Not necessary, when you migrate it will make a clone of the other machine if you choose all options. If you want then to remain synced  you can do so with the same user account and AppleID assuming you use iCloud and both machines are on Lion. You can sync what I noted in my first post.
I want to use one more for light business apps and one for my image processing.
If your goal is to sync apps and data currenlty there isn't an automated method of doing that other than keeping the data on an account such as DropBox. If you don't have a DropBox account then that may be what you're looking for however you will have to pay for data in excess of 2GB. The first 2GB is free.

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