memory card

wannabe

Please help my hubbie has asked for a memory card for our pc so he can save things at work bring them home and vice versa. This means very little to me so i dont know where the best place to get it and what i am getting. I know he wants at least 256
Please help a confused and desperate woman
ps Are there any bargains to be had with it????
thanks

Browntoa

I think he means a "USB Flash Drive"

amazon do them for £13.67 (if you get to £15 for the order postage is free)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007OC93U/026-3218583-0225242

Pcworld £16.44 if you "click and collect" from the store


http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/store/pcw_page.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1957718444.1131091905@@@@&BV_EngineID=ccchaddgeddkhfecflgceggdhhmdfhm.0&page=Product&fm=5&sm=1&tm=undefined&sku=976186&category_oid=-24886

isgman

You can always get them on e-bay, just make sure that you are not overcharged for the post & packing..

espresso

I can recomend mymemory who I have used several times before.
Link
You could pay slightly more than the prices quoted above and get a 512Mb one i.e. twice the capacity.

pealy

Quick word of warning - I did exactly this, got myself a USB Key for sharing between work and home only to find out that my PC at work doesn't support USB (even though there is a port) because it's running windows NT..

Would be a shame to buy one only to find out it doesn't do what he wants it to.

wealthsaver

pealy wrote:

Quick word of warning - I did exactly this, got myself a USB Key for sharing between work and home only to find out that my PC at work doesn't support USB (even though there is a port) because it's running windows NT..

Dell produced a patch for Dell computers to support usb devices in Win NT OS. Has been reported on other forums to work on other vendor PC's also.

I have never had the need to try this though.
http://ftp1.us.dell.com/utility/R62200.EXE

I found this link from http://www.computing.net/windowsnt/wwwboard/forum/22599.html
Try it at your own risk.
Try a search in Google or Yahoo for USB and NT4 for other options.

pealy

wealthsaver wrote:

Dell produced a patch for Dell computers to support usb devices in Win NT OS. Has been reported on other forums to work on other vendor PC's also.

Thanks for the advice wealthsaver, unfortunately out machines are so well locked-down even contemplating installing something would probably set an alarm off in the IT dept.