Citing the increase in netbooks now on the market, most of which do not include optical drives, a source within Microsoft, speaking to CNET, says the software giant is considering offering the upcoming OS Windows 7 on USB flash drives.
It is unknown what kind of copy protection would be put on these drives, outside of the standard CD key, but it may not even matter.
Microsoft is also ... [ read the full article ]
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Originally posted by ROMaster2: They already have 16GB USB drives, just wait for those prices to go down or something to use them.
I have one (16 gb) from Kingston, my clients have several. Foor some strange reason it works perfectly well with nVidia and Via chipset USB controller hardware but malfunctions on SB600 and SB700 chipset from AMD. I have Zero experience with Intel chipset PCs.
I have had to add Via chipset USB 2.0 addon cards on 5 AMD quad Phenom systems just for this functionality.
Originally posted by ROMaster2: They already have 16GB USB drives, just wait for those prices to go down or something to use them.
I have one (16 gb) from Kingston, my clients have several. Foor some strange reason it works perfectly well with nVidia and Via chipset USB controller hardware but malfunctions on SB600 and SB700 chipset from AMD. I have Zero experience with Intel chipset PCs.
I have had to add Via chipset USB 2.0 addon cards on 5 AMD quad Phenom systems just for this functionality.
it works fine on my SB750. but the real question is how or why your using quad phenoms on and outdated Chipset Platform. for quads AMD790/750 is the best way to go.
