Purchasing new mac.

i am considering purchasing a new mac as i am fed up with my macbook pro. i have tried repairing permissions, cleaning up preferences, etc. etc. etc. i am not sure where the problem lies but if i get a new mac i want to transfer my files without bringing any corruptions over. what is the best way to do this, and how can i find out where my problem even lies. my macbook pro keeps quitting programs, the finder displays are often frozen, and the list goes on with apps like mplayer, vlc player, safari, etc. please help

Hi *enaz81, Welcome* to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
Excellent, per usual, help from Steve and David. Hang in there, it should be fixable.
*Francine Schweider* a |||| bar poster in these forums has what I think is an excellent thought.
"I plan to buy my next computer before Leopard comes out. Why? Because generally new Mac computers will not run any system older than the one they ship with, I want to be able to use the fully mature Tiger system, rather than having to rely entirely on Leopard. Who knows whether the software I own will be fully compatible with Leopard? Or how long it will take for developers (think Adobe) to update if there are incompatibilities with Leopard. Or even just how stable and reliable and all like that Leopard will be.
Francine"
Enjoy your new iMac, JP
I think the way is to go to Apple store right after release and buy one w 10.4.10 installed and discs or coupon for Leapard. Clone 10.4.10 to a FWHD and get both worlds. SuperDuper and Carbon Copy Cloner are often recommended cloners.
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
Purchase at $27.95 will allow smart backups that look at the bu files and only move over new ones. It's quick at ~7 mins to change ~1 gig out of 20.

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