MojoPac Goes Free

Back in April of this year I spent some time trying out MojoPac [My Mojo Experience]. In general I liked it, but after the 30 day trial I just couldn’t rationalize the $50 price tag.

By way of a reminder:

MojoPac is a technology that transforms your iPod or USB Hard Drive or Flash drive into a portable and private PC. Just install MojoPac on any USB 2.0 compliant storage device, upload your applications and files, modify your user settings and environment preferences, and take it with you everywhere

My price concerns have now changed a bit with the advent of MojoPac Freedom. Follow that link to see  a chart comparing the various MojoPac flavors. The “Freedom” version doesn’t have all the bells and whistles, but I suspect for the casual user it’ll work out just fine. And Free is good.

I’ve been playing with it a bit the last couple of nights and am having fun setting up a portable development environment. Of course I’m installing some of my favorite “toolkit” apps too — but full versions, not portable versions.

What should you be aware of? While this has been working great for me in my limited testing, it currently only works on 32bit XP machines — with Admin privileges. Future Vista support is promised and, in looking at the System Requirements page, it appears that there may be alternatives to needing admin privs as well.

Worth a look if you have a reasonably fast and large enough USB drive.

[via jkOnTheRun]

Possibly Related posts:

1. Small MojoPac update
2. Quick Look at MojoPac 2.0
3. Oh No, I’ve got no Mojo
4. My Mojo Experience
5. But What Should I Do With It?