On Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:37:58 -0700 Dick Steffens <[email protected]> dijo:
>Those $20 Lenovo machines Kieth mentioned that are available at Eco >Binary don't have an optical media drive. So installing an OS would >need to be done with a flash drive (or some other way, but that's the >one I'm aware of). > >I'm looking at a SanDisk Cruzer 32 GB USB Flash Drive from Amazon. I bought a SanDisk Cruzer once several years ago. It came with some kind of software (called U2, if memory serves) that flashed a window on your screen every time it was mounted, proclaiming the virtues of SanDisk and how clever I was to have chosen it. It was impossible to remove it, at least no one I consulted could come up with a way to defeat it. Eventually I went to SanDisk's web site and discovered that they had so many complaints from users that they made a web-based removal utility. And it was not just me - once at the Clinic someone had one of these, and luckily I had bookmarked the page for the removal utility. Ever since I have avoided SanDisk. About a year and a half ago I was in Fry's where I spotted a 32 GB USB 3.0 thumb drive by Patriot. It was marked down to only $20, a decent price even today. When I got it home I figured out why it was marked down. They had formatted it NTFS instead of the usual FAT32. After a quick reformat it worked fine. Before you give your money to Amazon check out Fry's because they sometimes have deals like I found. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
