Transfer toanother laptop then to external harddrive

Hi,
Really need help, I have an old laptop which has 1,100 tracks on itunes, i also have a new laptop with a few tracks on itunes. What i want to do it transfer all 1,200 tracks onto an external hard drive and run it through the new laptops itunes!!!
Not sure the best way to do it, and want to be able to delete the tracks off new laptop so it frees up the memory. Which is why I bought an external hard drive!!
Any help would be very much appreciated!!!
Thanks
Gemstar

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