The major benefit for me is being able to transfer files to and from the Plus without messing around with floppies. I've got a pc on my network which has an ftp server and I also have that location mapped as a drive from my Win7 pc. So I can download stuff for the Plus via my Windows machine then access it right away by using ftp on the Plus. I took some screen shots the other day and inserted them into a Word doc on the Plus, then I just fpt'd the doc and accessed it via Word 2010 on my Win7 machine, pics and all.