At 09:36 AM 24/05/2008, you wrote:
>Are you basing that on actual experience with cheap AVR programmers?

I'm basing it on 7 years helping out people on Avrfreaks that
kill their chips with cheap programmer, especially parallel port
programmer with their confusing hex fuse setting software.

For me, I just do not want to exit Studio, all that I need is in
one IDE which works fairly well...apart from the occasional bug...

Having said that I started off with a PPP with the 4 resistors,
(233 MHz processor win 3.11) but once I started to use AVRs for
real I got an AVRISP, it just works.

I also have a STK500 and a Dragon which can be used as backup
programmers.

Regards

John Samperi

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