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  Kingston DataTraveler Mini Fun 1 GB

  Frazier Barretto, Nov 30, 2006 1600 hrs IST

  The Kingston DataTraveler Mini Fun is a tiny thumb drive. Let's see how much fun is it to have it...

  Small, Ultra light, Average performance, Reminds you of legos

  Compatible with only Win 2000 onwards, Prone to getting misplaced.

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The Kingston DataTraveler Mini Fun is a fun-looking thumb drive to start off with. The drive, even though called a thumb drive, is less than half the size of an adult thumb; possibly we could refer it to a thumb of an infant. The first thing, the drive reminded me was of Legos/Blocks we used to play with, to build anything we like e.g. guns in our childhood. The drive comes just all by itself and a keychain strap to attach the drive to your keychain.

A pretty plain and simple package nothing much to talk about; so we'll get on with the review.

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The Kingston DataTraveler Mini Fun is a really small thumb drive just as I said earlier. The drive dimensions 1.5 x 0.75 x 0.31 inches make it absolutely portable. The weight of the drive is just not needed to be known; it's like feather weight that's all I'll tell you. The drive is available in different colors depending on the capacity. The capacities available are 256 MB, 512 MB, and 1 GB. The drive is not just called Mini Fun for any reason; it is bundled with two games from BigFish Studios. For the record, the games bundled are Atlantis and Magic Vines. The drive is plug-n-play and doesn't require any drivers to be installed when used with any OS after Windows 2000 or Mac OS 10.x.

The bundle didn't have any driver CD bundled along; so it won't be possible to use the drive with Win98/Me/NT. The drive, being small in size, will always have this problem to share; being misplaced is almost inevitable. To add to the problems the drive has a cap, which is outrageously prone to being misplaced. Not that we lost the drive or its cap in the span of time that we had it for testing, but we were always searching for it. The drive is small and is meant to hang on to your keychain, but if loosing keys is your thing then you might as well hang it around your neck.

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