I think that one of the most useful developments of the past couple of years has been bootable USB sticks. Not just "LiveUSB" sticks, from which you can actually run Linux, although those are ...

I have an old Thinkpad X41 Tablet that I'm not quite ready to let go of yet, and though Windows is a bit too slow for daily use, I'd like to keep it around because of the tablet features and OneNote. ...