Got the old windows 7 laptop and fired her up. Got rid of everything on it that I didn't want or use. I have 90GB of photos on it. Ordered a 128GB thumb drive 2.0USB to transfer them to. I already have them on a 1TB external flash backup but you can never be too careful. Will delete the photos after saving to that thumb drive. This old laptop only transfers data through my wifi/1GB fiber at 60MB up and down. My desktop MAC gets about 600-700MB both ways and my deceased Lenovo desktop would exceed 1GB up and down. I am going to be limited mostly by the hard drive and USB transfer rates on that old HP i7 laptop. I am still kicking around just buying a new PC desktop and getting the best external optical drive for this chore. Thanks for all the good suggestions!