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Originally Posted by yvanleterrible
I was surprised to see a flash drive so big so fast and so cheap! I guess you're one year ahead of us mogui.
Say! do you see a $200 flexible A4 colo(u)r eink device in that time zone of yours?  |
Lest I be accused of having been gulled, I should qualify my purchase decision. I was wandering the floor of Fry's with cash in my pocket. A dangerous situation. I had intended to buy the largest thumb drive I could find. Thumb drive, USB key, flash drive and so on -- we call them a you pai in China, pronounced yo pie. It is easier to remember you pai than to have to choose from all the English synonyms.
I asked a clerk where the you pais were. Of course I used an appropriate English synonym. He led me to a dim section of the underlighted store. I was wishing for a flashlight. Preferably head-mounted. The 8 Gig you pais were $90. Right next to them were these Kaser Portable Vault drives. I made the unquestioning assumption that they too were flash devices. Since they were very light and compact and the smallest one was almost twice the capacity of the largest you pai for almost $30 less, well, it was an easy choice. In fact I bought two of them because one of the ladies in my household is a computer science major.
Now about the A4-sized eReader. Of course they are all over the place here but they only display upside down in Chinese. They are in every supermarket right next to the synonym rolls.