Synching iPhone to Macbook Pro

Hi,

My MacBook Pro was stolen in January and my iPhone has hundreds and hundreds of old photos on it and a few songs which were synched from the old laptop. Today I brought home a new shiny MacBook Pro with retina display (patience has its virtue when it comes to waiting to spend your insurance voucher!). I'd like to update my iPhone by plugging it in to the new laptop, but will all the photos and songs disappear? Everything is backed up via the cloud, but how do I get the photos back from the phone onto iPhoto on the laptop? Is this even possible?

And while I'm here, can anyone in the UK suggest a good insurer which would insure my new laptop, I'm looking for contents insurance, not home insurance.

Thanks in advance!

Kim

Here's one way of transferring your photos to your new Retina:

Plug your iPhone into your Mac

Launch Preview

From the File menu navigate down and select “Import from iPhone…”

Select “Import All” to get all the pictures, otherwise individually select pictures and click ‘Import’

Look in your ~/Pictures/ folder for the photos from your iPhone

You can also transfer pictures to your Mac with iPhoto or Image Capture, which is just as easy. Same as above.

There's a use for Preview that I either did not know about or had forgotten. Preview has got to go down as one of the most useful apps included with the Mac.