From: Ellen K. 

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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