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I've always wondered about this. I love the portability but limiting myself to the power of something that has to fit in my pocket feels... limiting. What if we
by chuckdries 9y ago
I've always wondered about this. I love the portability but limiting myself to the power of something that has to fit in my pocket feels... limiting. What if we just carried around our software and files and popped them into whatever computer we have on hand? I know they're pricey but M.2 SSDs are tiny, fast, and high in capacity. I can imagine a desktop (maybe even a big laptop) with an sd-card-reader-like slit where you pop the SSD in and boot in mere seconds. Your computing environment travels with you but can take advantage of whatever hardware you have.
It's not like you can use these phone-desktop solutions without a keyboard, mouse, dock, display, etc. anyway. You still need hardware.
As a proof of concept, I've been itching to get a few of those USB SATA toaster things and set them up at my desks. The only hitch is finding a laptop these days with a 2.5" bay that's easy to get to.
Would you use something like this?
- andai 9y agoI like your "just take the data with you" idea. I did something similar with a tiny (about the size of my thumbnail) USB stick about ten years ago, running Linux everywhere I could (and wasn't really supposed to!). It was pretty slow though. These days though, read and write speeds (on USB 3) are over 10x faster. So even without the hardware changes you describe, it's already more than feasible :)