You are going to have so much fun when you start printing your pictures! I love mine and I learned something new last night. I can save a picture from email to a folder and send it to the drive for my camera chip...once the picture is on the chip I can print it out from the photo printer. I also used a memory stick to save pictures from my old computer and there's a port in the HP for the memory stick so I was able to print pictures I thought I had lost forever. The HP doesn't hook up to the computer...you just plug it in and go but it comes with a remote and cord to connect to the television so you can view your pictures as a slide show on the t.v. screen. The one I have is portable so I can just unplug it and take it anywhere and print pictures. It comes in handy on New Year's Eve and holiday parties but you have to be careful...sometimes people don't want any 'evidence' floating around...you know?