Unlike some of their previous efforts (LapLink for Windows springs to mind), this utility actually works - mostly. In addition to moving programs, documents, and settings it also makes the appropriate registry changes so that this stuff is actually usable on the new computer.

OK so far. When I bought TWO of these with the USB transfer cable, Laplink was selling additional licenses at $25. That's right - I already have the cable and the CD, so why buy another set? To use this with another computer, I just have to give them $25 and use the hardware I already have.

NOT TRUE. The price for a new license is now $59, or MORE than a complete set costs. I received a nice e-mail explaing that their "prices had increased". Yes, I guess they did. WHY? Did their costs for sending me a 13-character (or whatever) number increase by over 100%?

I bought the two now-used PCMovers based partly on the promise that I could get a license only for a quasi-reasonable price. That evaporated.

What's next? Laplink announces the layoff of 73% of their employees and asks for $1B in bailout money? I smell an MBA in this somewhere.