Believe it or not, you won’t need anything besides PowerPoint, a computer, and a projector—exactly what you would need for standard presentations. We have been using variations of relational techniques all the way back to PowerPoint 97. As a rule, there is no need for a fancy computer or any other special equipment. Relational Presentation is simply a different way of using the tools you probably already have at your disposal.

That being said, we do make the following recommendations:

• If you plan to use a lot of pictures (especially nonoptimized pictures), video, and/or complex animations, a modern, fast computer with plenty of memory is definitely better.
• If running PowerPoint 2007, a more powerful computer will give you better performance.
• If you want full physical flexibility as a presenter (and hopefully you do), we highly recommend the Gyromouse, made by Gyration, as a way of remotely navigating through the network.
  
• We always back up our core network components (now about 3.6 GB) on a memory stick or a portable pocket hard drive.