Transfer between macs

Just upgraded my mac just as I was about to transfer my data form my old computer. But as I restarted the older machine to begin the transfer it failed. I believe that the logic board has failed in my older mac (by using the ambient lights in the older mac to diagnose the problem). I know that with PC you can remove the hard drive put it in a 3.5 caddy/ external enclosure and transfer the info. Can I do the same thing on the mac? Also can I drag across my itunes folder. I can't transfer my purchases for, my ipod because that failed last week!

It failed just as you were about to do the final transfer of data. That seems a bit coincidental. Did you do anything different with the old Mac, like unplug it to move it or change devices connected to it?
To answer your question, you can take the drive out and put it into an external drive enclosure. The type of enclosure depends on whether the drive is the older PATA (IDE) or the currently used SATA. Or you can get a USB adapter like this that can connect any IDE or SATA drive to your new Mac's USB port.
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Newer%20Technology/U2NV2SPATA/
For your iTunes question, (assuming you are using the default settings for where you store your music) what you want to do is take your complete iTunes folder from
<user home folder>/Music/
and transfer it to your new Mac. All of you music (and other iTunes media) files should be in that folder, along with your +iTunes Library+ file and other supporting files. If some of your music and other media files are not stored in that folder (perhaps they are on an external drive), please post back with details.
On the new Mac, there will already be an iTunes folder at the same location. As long as it is new and empty, move your transferred iTunes folder to replace it. iTunes should NOT be running when you do this action. With the old iTunes folder sitting there in place of the new one, run iTunes. It should look like iTunes on your old Mac.

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