Re: Power Point Projector

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Kate - Find the one you want via Best Buy, Office Depot, etc. research and find out what makes one good over another. 
Then try Free Geek in Portland. Next look on ebay and craigslist.

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 From: Kate Bryant <kbryant@spiritone.com>
To: Garden Writers -- GWL -- The Garden Writers Forum <gardenwriters@lists.ibiblio.org> 
Sent: Sunday, February 3, 2013 12:03 PM
Subject: [GWL] Power Point Projector

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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