[Macworld]

Post your comments for Kingston ships 32GB USB thumbdrive here

[heisetax]

Does this mean that we could load a system on this drive &boot an Intel Mac from it? Or do we need some other type of memory card drive to do this. MicroMat has a FireWire drive that they load a system & some repair utilities on. SO I know that it can be done.
I tried loading a System on a 8 or 16 GB CompactFlash card that was inserted into a FW800 CF card reader. The System install disk did not see the FW CF card as a drive that it could install the Mac OS X on..
This Kingston USB thumbdrive should be big enough. Now does any one know how to make it a Mac boot drive? That would give me a reason to purchase one.

[kawabungadude]

The way to make a Mac start up from an external drive is usually pressing the C key down as it starts up or going into your system preferences and selecting the start up disc pane and selecting the system folder you want to start up from. Hope this helps!

[stephenrea]

Holding the "C" key specifically boots from a CD/DVD.
Holding the "Option" key enters the Boot Manager, and displays all bootable devices and lets you pick which to temporarily boot from.
And, a hint the the other day, if you hold "Control" before selecting the volume, it becomes the default boot device.
http://www.macworld....tartupboot.html

[jpmhughes]

It seems difficult to find transfer speed benchmarks for many flash drives i.e. read/write MBytes/s. Has anyone here had any experiences with transfer speeds on larger flash drives?
Are they OK, really slow, fast etc.
Thanks,
Jim

[whitedog]

The best price I could find is at NewEgg for $79.99, plus tax and shipping for a total of $93.58.