ghetto kitty wrote:argh, has no firewire in the office.
reinstall new apps? why?
If you just copy your documents directly, that's all you'll have off your old system. Migration Assistant also copies all your applications and settings. HOWEVER, it totally has AIDS, so don't do that! At all. It shouldn't be too much work to get it all set back up and it is a chance to cut out the dead wood.
BTW, the current MBP's have some issues with firewire - I had to switch my external HDD to USB, coz it kept randomly freezing the system
I suggest just copying your docs off your time machine via USB, that way you can have your old machine on and sometimes it's easier to find things from within the system. (Don't do Migration Assistant off that either. Serial. You will think you have broken your new 'puter and then have to do it directly anyway.)