I bought an IK a few days ago, I'm pretty impressed so far. The review is basically on par with my own conclusions, except that you *don't* need to install any software on the host PC as suggested on page 2 of the review. Mac and Linux support is supposedly in the pipeline - if you visit their forums (registration required) they're pretty open the new features they're planning.
@Quinn Fidler: yes, you can install add-ons, and they're all saved onto the IronKey. I'm not sure about updates to FF itself but it should work fine - when you first use the IronKey FireFox is copied from the read-only partition onto the writable one, from where it runs. The version on mine is currently 2.0.0.6 which is the latest release.
@IanKRolfe: indeed, I've installed PortableApps (excluding the FireFox app) on my IronKey and it works great.
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I bought an IK a few days ago, I'm pretty impressed so far. The review is basically on par with my own conclusions, except that you *don't* need to install any software on the host PC as suggested on page 2 of the review. Mac and Linux support is supposedly in the pipeline - if you visit their forums (registration required) they're pretty open the new features they're planning.
@Quinn Fidler: yes, you can install add-ons, and they're all saved onto the IronKey. I'm not sure about updates to FF itself but it should work fine - when you first use the IronKey FireFox is copied from the read-only partition onto the writable one, from where it runs. The version on mine is currently 2.0.0.6 which is the latest release.
@IanKRolfe: indeed, I've installed PortableApps (excluding the FireFox app) on my IronKey and it works great.