CC_333 said:

Yes, but if you're starting out and this is your first and only Arduiono, you have a classic Catch-22 problem: You need to get a bootloader before using the Arduino but you need to use the Arduino to get the bootloader. Quite a dilemma, no?

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That is a dilemma. Lucky for me the SainSmart Arudino Uno is what I would call a perfect clone of the Arduino Uno R3, and I was able to load up boot loaders on those Chinese Clones quite easily with instructions the link I posted above. Then I ran into that CH341 driver issue on some (make that most!) of the Chinese Clones that used them. Getting the driver for the Wintel PC was a problem within itself, most places wanted you to "download their own site downloader and get it from there." (Yeah right, and get injected with some sort of virus or backdoor cracker? Hell No!) But I managed to get one that works perfectly on the Wintel Machines. See Link Here. The Zip has 32 and I believe 64 bit, and though its for XP, I have it running on my Vista and Win7 machines without problems.

Thanks for the Link & File, Max1zzz. I'll try it on both Intel and PPC Macs that I have.

We'll see how it goes, I'll post up the results here.