Clearly a Frequently Asked Question - with more than one answer, including the one the Apple salesman gave: Time Machine > new machine. Not SuperSuper! or Migration Assistant.
"When you first turn on your new Mac have the older one connected to your network or make a backup of it with Time Machine and have that TM backup external drive connected to your new Mac and use the Setup assistant system to copy over Apps, Settings and Personal files. All new Mac's come with special builds of OS X created specifically for the new hardware in the system. OS X on your older Mac does not contain those newer special drives for the new hardware. Trying to restore the new Mac from the old could and probably will render the new Mac Un-Bootable."
All in their opinion, I presume.
"When you first turn on your new Mac have the older one connected to your network or make a backup of it with Time Machine and have that TM backup external drive connected to your new Mac and use the Setup assistant system to copy over Apps, Settings and Personal files. All new Mac's come with special builds of OS X created specifically for the new hardware in the system. OS X on your older Mac does not contain those newer special drives for the new hardware. Trying to restore the new Mac from the old could and probably will render the new Mac Un-Bootable."
All in their opinion, I presume.
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