Cool impulse purchase

So I was at Target to pick up paper towels and such, and they had a rack of 32 MB USB drives hanging by the checkout for $20. Floored me. I hadn’t realized they were so commodified yet, but hey…

I’d been tempted to grab one for a while; it’s a clearly useful product for moving work between the office and home. I’ve been using e-mail to do it ever since I got high-speed internet, but that’s kind of a pain, and what if I’m not going to hit the house? Floppies don’t work with the iBook, and burning a CD for each transfer seemed awfully damn wasteful. I did a quick price check when I got home, and while pretty much nobody is selling any USB flash drives smaller than 64 MB any more, all of those are $35 or more. Hardly impulse purchase material.

Small thing, but it made my day. Twenty bucks… Less than a case of beer…

Posted by jank at November 30, 2003 3:09 PM