Need to transfer picts from a Dell to an iMac?

My friend is going to be a switcher. She has an 4 year old Dell and wants to buy an iMac. She wants to buy an external hard drive and take the pictures and other data from the Dell and put them on the external hard drive. What kind of external hard drive does she need. Does it need to be formated for PC to do the original transfer? How does she then transfer this data to the iMac? She doesn't know if her computer has USB 1.0 or 2.0. I'm assuming it has USB 2.0. Can she use a USB 3.0 external hard drive?
Thanks for any help,

The easiest way is to copy her data to the external drive from the computer. The drive can be formatted for the PC. Macs can read PC drives and can write to all but NTFS formatted drives. So once connected to the Mac, she will be able to copy the files to her Mac.
New Macs have USB ports that support both USB 3.0 and 2.0. I've not used a USB drive on a new Mac, so I don't want to make that recommendation. Sure you can understand.

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