StartMeStick Private and Secure Computer Stick (PC/Mac) - Unlimited Devices - 1 Year

I previously used FixMeStick with good results, so with all the hype about StartMeStick in their advertising, I decided to try it, especially with 50% off for Black Friday. I followed the instructions for booting through Windows and found it more than doubled normal boot time. Even booting through the boot menu (option 2) it took longer than the normal Windows boot. Bookmarks can be imported (more time consumed) from Google Chrome, but cannot be saved, so if you use bookmarks extensively as I do you must import them every time you boot the stick up. I still thought that maybe the promised privacy and security might be worth all the extra hassles until I used the browser to try and access Youtube and instead accessed some attack that tried to lock down my computer. Not much security there, I'd say.

I bought this thinking that I could use it to repair a faulty Windows PC. Unfortunately, that was not possible. It does boot up your PC, but you cannot access the hard drives. Basically it lets you have a temporary PC to surf the net or do a few very basic things. No saving your work, no printing, not much else. If you need to look something up on a friend's PC, it works, but no real work to speak of.

FixMeStick - StartMeStick is a gadget that is easy to take along for use on PC's and laptops. It is an external virus-removal device. The FixMeStick is a plug-in USB tool that scans your computer for viruses before your computer boots into its normal operating system. The FixMeStick automatically updates itself and removes the infections that conventional antivirus software often can't detect.