Best way to transfer internal HD data in Mavericks to Mac with Yosemite ?

Hello,
I'm using a 2007 iMac with Mavericks and will be getting a new one which will presumably come with Yosemite installed. What's the best way to transfer all the data from my internal HD on the old system, to the new one ?
I use SuperDuper to make backups to external HD's, so if I make a bootable copy of the mac HD to an ext HD using SuperDuper, will everything function fine despite the different OS's ?
Thanks,
Matrose.

You can make a bootable copy of your system now, but you won't be able to boot from it with the new computer. They are not usually backwards compatible with the OS. But when you first boot into the new system, use SetUp Assistant to migrate the data from the cloned copy. That will work just fine.

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