The Portable Consultant

My PowerToGo Update (Cont’d.) By this morning The Portable Consultant had received a response to his complaint to Lexar with regards to the failed update crashing his Lexar Lightning PowerToGo apps on a stick (see previous post). The tech support response was amusing. It suggested that I backup my data and re-install. In technical circles [...]

One of my annoyances with the Lexar Lightning with PowerToGo was the lack of a free backup utility. With Lexar, it is a $10 USD download. As a result, I hesitated to make the purchase… and now I’m sorry that I didn’t just consider that cost as part of the cost of the device! Last [...]

The Portable Consultant has been reading all the Christmas ads for PCs and noticing that the vast majority of desktops and notebooks are labelled “Vista Capable”… which means what, exactly? What I had heard was that “Vista Premium Ready” means the unit will actually run Vista in all its glory while “Vista Capable” means it [...]