What cable do I need to connect my macbook retina display to my old windows xp pc

Hi
I just bought a new MacBook Pro retina and need to transfer pics and music from old pc onto it.
I Understand you can do it wireless but assume this will take forever (given I have about 120gb of files to move)
Have also read that you can do this with an Ethernet cable (but there is no Ethernet port on my macbook). Can anyone advise on any cable/adaptor that I Can use to connect them?
FInal point - have also read that you can transfer via external hard drive but a bit clueless as to which one can easily handle both mac and Windows. I'm not very tech savvy so didn't want complexity of having to reformat anything (which you seem to have to do on a lot of them).  I am planning on getting an external hard drive anyway (to back up on) but was ideally going to buy one that was designed to work with mac hence trying to do the initial migration job using a cable if possible.
Anyway all help and feedback appreciated
j

1. Use a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet adapter. The online Apple Store sells these.
2. Any drive which wasn't originally designed for usage with Macs will work out of the box, but will need to be reformatted prior to usage with Time Machine or to store a bootable clone.
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