For those who don't know what I'm talking about, look at this:
U3.
Well, one of my Santas present was a new USB drive with much more capacity (a little 'upgrade' from my old 128 Mb to 2 Gb
) but then I saw for first time the word U3 on the box.
After connecting it to my computer I could start viewing the benefits: run all my programs from the USB drive and leave no clues on the PC. But, what programs? Just U3 certified programs. So, if I download a portable version of any other program, it won't be recognized by the U3 manager and it'll be just like any other USB drive.
'Ok then, if it's gonna be like any other USB drive, I prefer save those 6 MB that takes the U3 manager', i thought. Mwuahahahaha, poor guy. The drive comes with 2 partitions madden, one of them as CDSF, so I don't know any comercial program (partition magic, on my case) to erase a partition that usually can't be modified. I had to search the uninstaller and fill a stupid questionary asking why I don't like U3.
After all this experience, do you think it's a good idea all of this U3? Maybe the idea is good but not so well driven. On the shop, all pen-drives come now with U3, does this make them more expensive? Are we paying for something that we'll uninstall as soon as we can? Maybe it's the start of a new disease like all PC with Windows pre-installed on them.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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