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[Zarf]

That's gonna be a while, DVD's cost less than 5p, whilst memory sticks are around £1 per GB.

No, eventually, everything will just come out on steam.

[Chaos]

Also - interesting point chaos - I also think that considering how much it is used in large organisations that it won't be long until you can install an OS over the internet too. I guess one problem is data retention - don't these usb drives lose data after a certain number of read/writes, and they are also susceptible to power surges etc? A cd, kept in good condition (so no scratches etc) might last longer?

I cant see installing an OS over the web becoming that doable in the near future unless motherboards have a standardised language (other than dos) as you would need to tell the board how to connect to the internet without windows/similar installed

The usb drive doesnt have to be on a flash format, theyr getting massive now (think i saw a 128GB one somewhere) so it wouldnt surprise me if they found another way to put 5GB of data on a smaller USB drive thats write protected and doesnt loose anything on read/writes... a massive advantage to that would be the ability to customise the install, so you install all the drivers for your system at the same time, that would be a massive time saver, just load a plugin to the install process? that would take some epic programming but would be so worth it

[Zarf]

Also - interesting point chaos - I also think that considering how much it is used in large organisations that it won't be long until you can install an OS over the internet too. I guess one problem is data retention - don't these usb drives lose data after a certain number of read/writes, and they are also susceptible to power surges etc? A cd, kept in good condition (so no scratches etc) might last longer?

In large organisations we use Norton Ghost or similar for installations. PC's (we used Dell) come from the factory with the bios option to network boot enabled. We install windows, drivers, office and anything else we need on one computer, and use Ghost to take an image of it.
Then you plug in all the PC's, they network boot into a state where the Ghost manager can send them messages. You then Multicast out the install and can have hundreds of computers cloned and ready to be used in about 20 minutes.

This was one of my jobs on my work placement. The whole process only takes about two hours from the start, as long as nothing complicates things (like software that has to be individually activated on each machine ... grrrr)

[Finaldeath]

Hmm, 418 (but I bet it's a bit higher really). I used this before when my older power supply (500W Antec one that came with the case) had to have the power button on the back toggled to get my machine to boot. Got a nicer 620W one now, which should cover it.

For a new one if I get two graphics cards, urg, will have to see about that.