Use back up from Time Machine to start new MacBook Pro

Using the Time Machine and an external Hard Drive I back up my 3 years old MacBook (running Lion and with hard drive of 250 GB)
I am planning to purchase a new MacBook Pro (with a hard drive of 750 GB)
how do I transfer all my software and Data to my new computer?
if I plug my Time Machine to it will set up my new computer just the way I have my old Computer?
will all software work properly?
Any thing else I should have in Consideration??

K2spuky wrote:
Using the Time Machine and an external Hard Drive I back up my 3 years old MacBook (running Lion and with hard drive of 250 GB). Will all software work properly?
The old machine is running Lion already, then all your programs are ready already for the new machine with Lion.
how do I transfer all my software and Data to my new computer?
if I plug my Time Machine to it will set up my new computer just the way I have my old Computer?
Plug the TimeMachine drive into the new computer, boot it and when you go through the setup there will be a opportunity to transfer from the TM drive.
Shouldn't be a problem as your already on Lion.
Of course if your older machine software is crappy and slow, so will your new machine.
You might decide to fresh install instead, create the same user on the new machine then install all your programs from fresh original sources and then transfer files manually from the older machine, droppping the contents right into the same user folders as on the old machine.
More work, but actually saves work if your older machine is screwed up. Because Setup and Migration assistant has no brains, it transfers crap just as well as the good stuff. and despite what it says, it seems to transfer programs even if you state you just want files. Why I don't know, it's what someone said.
I never use either, because reinstalling the whole OS again, especially Lion with the Internet download, is not worth the chance. I'd rather download a few programs and transfer manually, takes about the same amount of time.

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