From: "Robert Comer" 

I've never had any problem with Kingstons...

- Bob Comer


"Ellen K."  wrote
in message news:abq4t05k5qs3gp928biod3fk9ngureigdb{at}4ax.com...
> He said he likes Kingston, based on the fact that his still works
> perfectly after being fully immersed in water.
>
> Your thoughts?
>
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 21:31:19 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>  wrote in message :
>
>>>... I'm
>>> definitely getting one or two of those and the heck with ever again
>>> burning CDs for the purpose of transferring large files between work and
>>> home!
>>
>>1GB ones are about $100 at tigerdirect right now, but I've seen them for
>>as
>>low as $60 on sale.
>>
>>> So, I'm curious:   Since XP has this functionality, why would you
>>> install a separate CD/DVD burning suite on an XP box?
>>
>>The built in one is very minimal...
>>
>>
>>
>>- Bob Comer
>>
>>
>>"Ellen K."
 wrote in message
>>news:5cu3t0hhrbt88p5mt5vnlkcmeogndlu59u{at}4ax.com...
>>> The same young tech who showed me that also rescued me from a
>>> non-functioning CD burning suite on my work desktop... he has a USB
>>> flash memory attached to his keychain, just stuck it in my machine,
>>> copied what I was trying to burn, stuck it in the XP machine and made
>>> the CD.  (Actually it took two trips, but who's counting.)   I'm
>>> definitely getting one or two of those and the heck with ever again
>>> burning CDs for the purpose of transferring large files between work and
>>> home!
>>>
>>> So, I'm curious:   Since XP has this functionality, why would you
>>> install a separate CD/DVD burning suite on an XP box?
>>>
>>> On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 09:09:46 -0500, "Robert Comer"
>>>  wrote in message
>>> :
>>>
>>>>> plus:  Very cute that you can now drag and drop to
burn a CD just like
>>>>> writing to any drive.  (Actually I saw this on a
different one than
>>>>> the
>>>>> one I was working on.)   This seems to fit in the same
category as
>>>>> being
>>>>> able to go to other boxes like with pcAW but without pcAW.
>>>>
>>>>That is nice -- unless you have another CD/DVD burning
suite that messes
>>>>it
>>>>up.
>>>>
>>>>> minus:  The UI is HIDEOUS.
>>>>
>>>>LOL!  I agree totally btw.   Getting rid of the
new-style start menu
>>>>is
>>>>the first thing of many that I change.
>>>>
>>>>- Bob Comer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Ellen K."
 wrote in message
>>>>news:2qr1t0d7sm409iogon5d8dufkr05oikjc2{at}4ax.com...
>>>>> Some of our newer boxes have XP, and I saw one the
other day because I
>>>>> had to install the SQL Server client on it.
>>>>>
>>>>> plus:  Very cute that you can now drag and drop to
burn a CD just like
>>>>> writing to any drive.  (Actually I saw this on a
different one than
>>>>> the
>>>>> one I was working on.)   This seems to fit in the same
category as
>>>>> being
>>>>> able to go to other boxes like with pcAW but without pcAW.
>>>>>
>>>>> minus:  The UI is HIDEOUS.
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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