Buy.com has the Crucial 4GB Gizmo! Plus Flash Drive on sale for $18 with free shipping. It looks like it has a cap that you'll quickly lose for sure. Covered by a 2-year warranty.
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#1
chocoruacal - Posted 7:24 am PDT 05/15/08 (37 Posts)
Inside the Crucial marketing department...
A guy wearing a pit stained buttondown shirt and pants about 1/2 an inch too short turns a fat, 2005-vintage memory stick over in his stubby fingers.
After 20 minutes or so, he screams "I've got it! We'll call it a Gizmo...A Gizmo Plus...No wait! Put an exclamation point after Gizmo! And quick, send that other warehouse full of 256MB sticks back to China and tell them to re-solder the guts into 8GB sticks that are 3/4" thick. We'll call them Gizmo Classic Mega!"
A guy wearing a pit stained buttondown shirt and pants about 1/2 an inch too short turns a fat, 2005-vintage memory stick over in his stubby fingers.
After 20 minutes or so, he screams "I've got it! We'll call it a Gizmo...A Gizmo Plus...No wait! Put an exclamation point after Gizmo! And quick, send that other warehouse full of 256MB sticks back to China and tell them to re-solder the guts into 8GB sticks that are 3/4" thick. We'll call them Gizmo Classic Mega!"
#2
mr.ed - Posted 7:45 am PDT 05/15/08 (1737 Posts)
Search for the OCZ 8GB drive for $19. Go ahead, do it. You know you want to.
#3
dave_c - Posted 8:36 am PDT 05/15/08 (7483 Posts)
That $19 / 8GB looked like a good price but ecost's shipping (and don't they tack on an extra handling fee or is that their sister 'site?) ends up being around $9 making it end up about the same price as a couple others, hopefully as many others in the very near future.
Unfortunately all the fast writing 8GB capacity seem to still cost disproportionately more.
Unfortunately all the fast writing 8GB capacity seem to still cost disproportionately more.
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