[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.