Sync iPad with new mac in without old mac

Have moved to another city than my home, left iMac at home (old without intel so no cloud) -- bought new iMac and want to sync my ipad now to the new mac NOT the old. It wants to erase my ipad --- don't want to lose my aps. How do I stop the sync with old mac and switch to new -- won't be back in old house til mid-Feb so want to sync now with new. As iMacs are different version and in different cities I couldn't just write my files from one to another so transferred via external drive my music and photos. Now want to ensure I can sync my iPad. Advice on how I do this without losing all my aps? Thx.

Read this discussion and see my posts (Demo) and King Penguin's posts. If you follow the instructions that we discussed you should be fine. There are ways to get all of iPad content into iTunes on the new Mac discussed in this thread.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3305461
Whatever does not apply - just ignore. The only change in terminology for a Mac running iTunes is iTunes>Preferences>Devices - not Edit>Preferences>Devices like on a PC.

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About backups and what's saved:iTunes: About iOS backups
How to back up and restore:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
How to download apps for free again:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2519
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Sync iPad with new mac in without old mac

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