Somewhat counterintuitively in low-bandwidth environments a desktop in the cloud can be quite useful. Last year I was stuck on a very spotty 3G connection for s

Somewhat counterintuitively in low-bandwidth environments a desktop in the cloud can be quite useful. Last year I was stuck on a very spotty 3G connection for several weeks and found it significantly snappier to connect to an NX desktop I happened to have at the time (for experimenting with T2 SDE and Poky but that's another tangent) for email and browsing.