Power Point Projector

**K* B* <k*@spiritone.com>**

Hi Folks,

For the past ten years, I have run an informal, super-nerdy hort group in Portland, Oregon called the Daisy Chain. Periodically, I round up a speaker who presents a show-and-tell on their most recent plant collecting expedition or horticultural travels, a genus of interesting plants or - occasionally - an element of green/urban design or a horticultural or design issue. We have a casual party and slide show with great potluck food and great people - mostly hort industry professionals, nursery owners, and serious non-professional plant collectors and fetishists - so the talks are definitely for fellow plant sophisticates - no need to "keep things simple or avoid botanical Latin" - we can be as inaccessible as we want! (If anyone ever would like to join us, either to show-and-tell on some geeky plant collecting expedition you've been on or a genus of cool plants, or if you'd like to join us as a guest when you're next visiting Portland, let me know. Once a talk is arranged, I j
 ust send out a note to the list saying there's a party, and asking someone to share the use of their house for the night. See? Very informal!) It's just for fun, not profit, but I have helped connect some foreign lecturers who spoke for us with local paying gigs, so let me know if you are a plant explorer, designer or specialist in some interesting genus and are hot to speak in Portland and I'll help if I can.

So here's my dilemma: I'm sick of having to beg and borrow projectors for each event. I'd like to purchase a new or used PowerPoint projector to have on hand, anytime I want to throw a party. I'm not that tech-savvy but most of the folks who will be using it mostly use Macs ('though it needs to work with the occasional PC-user, too). 

The cheaper the better, as I'm either paying for it myself or taking donations that would only partially cover the cost, I'm sure.

Does anyone have any ideas on criteria I should use for buying a projector for this particular purpose? And, does anyone have strong feelings about any particular product - something to stay away from or something highly recommended for this kind of use?

Thanks in advance for any advice! 

-Kate

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