It's nice having the Portable Apps Suite support different flash sizes for the suite, but the Suites are aimed at the standard of a few years back.
For example, when we buy a flash drive nowadays it's virtually impossible to find a 256MB drive and even 512MB's are getting more rare. While I not suggest to drop the smaller suite sizes for people having an old drive or ipod with only 512MB, I would suggest that the suite would aim to support modern sizes a bit more.
Nowadays 2GB and 4GB are pretty standard and many people have 8GB. Next year the 16GB would cost as much as a 8GB today... with obviously 32GB and larger just around the corner.
A 4GB costs around 15 Euro,a 8GB around 30 Euro. I remember buying my 512MB and 1GB for the same price as 4GB and 8GB not that long ago. (Same brand, same type)
But I do believe the future suits should download the individual apps to obtain the latest versions of the apps, else the first thing a user has to do is update virtually all applications he just installed right after installing the suite 
So:
256MB Suite, 512MB suite, 1GB Suite, 2GB Suite, 4GB Suite, 8GB Suite....
Maybe an unified installer/downloader that will have an auto detection for flash size, suggest a Suite of apps and allows the user to deselect some and add select additional apps.
Also, perhaps it would be cool to select your apps for the suite by category. Say I have a 2GB flash drive lying around and I select Games... Another flash drive I select a bunch of office and utilities, etc.
While I expect some "nope" reactions 
due to "many people have only small drives/ipods" this is true, but the technology doesn't stand still for another 6 or 12 months.
When I first installed PAM v1.1B4 my biggest flash drive was 2GB, now I got an 8GB for the same price as I bought the 2GB for
And remember my post about me buying 8GB for 30Euro, a month or 2 ago? Well it already dropped 5Euro in price...
current prices: (Same brand, same type, same shop)
128MB and 256MB not available anymore
1GB around 5 Euro
2GB around 8 Euro
4GB around 14 Euro
8GB around 26 Euro
16GB around 53 Euro
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John says its just more work. My idea is to do something like a download the ones you want deal. That way the choice is in the user, and John has less work for upating apps
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I just suggested the suite installer downloads the files (It can use same file as the updater). Else the suites will be out of date very quickly.
Then the suite doesn't have to be recompiled periodically.
I say less work on the suite then and always up to date with the latest.
Unless the plan is to release the suites and let them downloaded by people for the coming 2 years or more.
Examine the current downloads... are any of the apps still up to date? Do the people who start a download know most of the apps in the current suites are already outdated?
1. People add their own apps that arent portable
2. Smaller flashdrives are usually more stable. I usually use a 1 or 2 GB drive.
3. It costs money to host files on sourseforge.
4. Usually, if you have an unwanted app, you would uninstall it.
5. The simpler the better
6. Using up all this space and using all these apps will make the drive slower
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1. People add their own apps that arent portable
Even more people add their own apps that are portable.
"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Asimov
1. Not when using a suite installer I guess... not more than usual
2. Don't know about that. Seems the same technology..
3. For sourceforge. Well I do wonder what the max size is. but thats why i suggested a smaller downloader.
4. With a downloader you would not even download it and install it in the first place
5. It's still simple. Using Installers are usually not rocket science.
6. Don't know. But I didn't suggest the suites should use maximum. Need space left for files and settings.
6. Using up all this space and using all these apps will make the drive slower
That's true in a Hard Disk but not in a Flash Drive, the same reason why it's not necessary to defragment a Flash Drive applies here.
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
then the socket packet pocket has an error to report
is what I'm good for. While I haven't really change the apps that I use, I do have more in the Data side as well as more files in Folders.
Of course, what we need in the main PAM is the cutomizing folders
which I know is coming soon.
Don't be an uberPr∅. They are stinky.
yep, it'll be here "next week"
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