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- iMac with OS X 10.11.2 -16GB memory
I have an iMac running Snow leopard and I am very satisfied with it, so I am not in the market to buy a new laptop computer .
However, I have a couple of hobbies that I have done for many years and I have collected hundreds of patterns and tutorials for them. I find it very cumbersome to bring the project to my computer desk so I need to print them. I have 16 binders where I have the paper copies and they are taking up valuable real estate in a small apartment
I would like to save all of the hobby patterns and tutorials to flash drives and be able to plug them into an iPad, iPod, tablet, Kindle or some thing portable ..
I have done some research and unless I have missed something none of these portable pieces of equipment have USB ports ( for a Flash drive or external CD player ) or a slot for a memory card.
I even considered a cheap brand of laptop just for this purpose. I would not hook it up to the Internet just use is to display patterns from my Flash drives . However, I am not sure what format I would need to save the files in to work on a computer other than an Apple.
Would I need to buy Office for Mac?
Any suggestions or links to where I can get additional information on this idea would be deeply appreciated .
Thank you
Barbara
However, I have a couple of hobbies that I have done for many years and I have collected hundreds of patterns and tutorials for them. I find it very cumbersome to bring the project to my computer desk so I need to print them. I have 16 binders where I have the paper copies and they are taking up valuable real estate in a small apartment
I would like to save all of the hobby patterns and tutorials to flash drives and be able to plug them into an iPad, iPod, tablet, Kindle or some thing portable ..
I have done some research and unless I have missed something none of these portable pieces of equipment have USB ports ( for a Flash drive or external CD player ) or a slot for a memory card.
I even considered a cheap brand of laptop just for this purpose. I would not hook it up to the Internet just use is to display patterns from my Flash drives . However, I am not sure what format I would need to save the files in to work on a computer other than an Apple.
Would I need to buy Office for Mac?
Any suggestions or links to where I can get additional information on this idea would be deeply appreciated .
Thank you
Barbara