[eagan]

The isostick is also useful for some newer machines. Macs have a lot less problem booting images, as you mention. I've found that even newer netbooks don't like booting from USB flash sticks, but will happily boot from optical drives (and thus, isostick).

Some utilities will only boot from optical drives as well, though this is less of an issue with newer utilities and OSes. Windows XP is a good example, which is still in surprisingly high use today.

The read-only switch should also be handy :)

Best Regards - Eric Agan, Elegant Invention