Pairing existing bluetooth peripherals with new mac mini

I have been using a 1st gen. mac mini for 5 years and just bought a new 5th gen mac mini. I want to know, since I am using a mac bluetooth mouse and keyboard, when I hook up the new mini, will it automatically find my mouse and keyboard? Do I need to get a USB keyboard and mouse to make the transition? Also, I want to make my old mini a slave to the new mini to transfer my files and some apps that aren't native to mac. How do I achieve this?

The new Mac Mini should find your mouse so you can continue the setup.
You will probably have to add the keyboard later but that isn't a problem.
During the setup, it will ask you if you want to transfer items from another computer.
At this time, you would want a firewire cable connected between the 2 computers.
This will transfer all of your data from one machine to the other.
The firewire cable will be 6 pin on your old mini and I believe 9 pin on the new mini.
You could use a 6 pin firewire cable on each end and then use an adapter for the other mini.
Basically, the old mini has Firewire 400 port and the new mini has Firewire 800 port so all you need to do is hook the two computers together. This would be the fastest. Or, you could just transfer the data wirelessly between the two computers but it will take longer.
Hope this helps.

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