fair enough personally i like the digiphotoframes which granted, are quite a bit of cash but you can also fit hundreds of pics on them which i really like
each to their own i suppose.
They're quite nice but when it comes to photo frames I've never been a huge fan of them... but as you said it just comes down to preference! Anyway...
fair enough. i thought wireless would have been easier but your right, its just one cable, who cares. printers r connected via USB these days right?
Yup. Been a while since they used the big ol' parallel port
More expensive varieties can link via ethernet straight into a switch / hub / whatever, but for the most part it's USB, correct.
i'm actually quite torn between laser and inkjet with me leaning slightly towards laser, although they r more expensive, no?
Yes, especially in the budget area they're more expensive. The saving comes when you're printing lots and if you're not then it'll take a long time to make that saving back!
do they make a laser AIO unit? more i think about it the more it would be nice to have that scanning function.
They do, but as above they will be a lot more expensive.
at the moment i don't print out very much but will need to print out a few reports in the next years for uni (masters course) but its more of a matter of convenience i suppose. hundreds of pages is most likely NOT going to happen. maybe, just maybe once a year.
In terms of costs, this is what it boils down to. Laser cartridges are generally more expensive than inkjets - but you get a heck of a lot more pages from them.
My advice would be to look around at different (laser and inkjet) models, look at the price of cartridges and how many pages they do on average, estimate how many pages you'll be printing a year, and from that work out if you went with a laser printer instead of an inkjet, how long it'd roughly take for you to make that initial investment back because of cheaper prints.
If you work out that you'll do it in a couple of years or so, fantastic. Clear cut win, go for the laser. If it's more like 20-30... the printer will most likely give up before then so it's probably not worth it!