This is something I’ve wondered about for a long time.\u00a0 There was some validity to the idea back when Compaq first made the idea of a portable computer popular, but that was back before personal computers were ubiquitous, and before the world was networked.\u00a0 When Microsoft discovered networking in 1995 the idea of a portable computer should have just withered and died.\u00a0 In a time when a very serviceable workstation computer costs less than the desk to put it on, much less the network infrastructure to support it, why in the world would anyone want to lug the damned thing around with them and risk it being dropped, broken, or stolen?\u00a0 Particularly if it has “secret” files on it, or files that are not easily replaced?<\/p>\n
If the problem is that one’s computer is personalized, well come on now.\u00a0 That’s a problem that’s easily resolved with a USB flash memory.\u00a0 Or better still, something like the Plan 9 filesystem, that was proven technology over 20 years ago.<\/p>\n
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