“We needed cards anyway, might as well buy em preinstalled … this exercise was a bit of a hackathon, on the day we used cards for video recorders which are blisteringly fast instead but have a couple of NOOBs leftover for next projects.”
“My 16GB pre-installed NOOBS card (v. 3.1.1) worked well - very easy to use.
However, my new keyboard no longer maps correctly to Raspbian - most annoying for a 'C' programmer wanting to use ~ and \ and ' and @ … I presume this is not the fault of the SD card, but of the version of Raspbian that was downloaded? I don't know!”