[JoeAltmaier]

Agreed. Better yet, keep them in a Google data center. Its far more efficient to make cloud storage available at a reasonable price. How about a diskless laptop that boots from cloud storage? That would be a sweet spot economically (depending on network costs I guess).

[ancarda]

>How about a diskless laptop that boots from cloud storage?

While this is a cool idea, how much bandwidth would you need to boot at roughly the same speed you do today? Some SSDs have 500 MB/s (~4 Gbit) read. You'd need to have gigabit networking with almost zero latency for that to perform well.

I suppose a smaller OS like Chrome OS would be perfect for that. Even if this worked on fiber, how would you boot over a cellular network? Aside from costing you a ton of money, it would take forever to download.

[JoeAltmaier]

Time is a fungible commodity. E.g. boot time may affect bottom line (rhyme!) in the EU; it can be different in Africa.

[rdc12]

How reliable are the networks in Africa? Outside of the cities?

[JoeAltmaier]

I'm thinking, because they got network late, maybe better than my house in Iowa. I'm still on copper.