Not related to data, but nomads and semi-nomads might want to consider an external GPU setup. I tried it and really like it (though it is a bit of a pain and n

Not related to data, but nomads and semi-nomads might want to consider an external GPU setup. I tried it and really like it (though it is a bit of a pain and not for people who don't want to deal with drivers and such). The gist of it is that, if you want to combine the mobility of an ultrabook with the power of a desktop, you can mostly have your cake and eat it too by putting your extras (GPU, spare hdd, cat5, optical drive etc) in an enclosure with its own power supply. This only became possible due to usb-c being fast enough to act like part of the bus. In theory, it's awesome - take your laptop out and about and use it like a laptop, then take it home and have a full desktop worth of peripherals, without having to plug in external monitors and stuff every time. In practice, not all cards/laptops/enclosures work together and you'll likely spend some time trying different combinations of drivers and settings. There's a forum[0] dedicated to this that I found highly helpful. I have mine working and I do like it, it is a lot easier than bouncing back and forth between a laptop-for-mobility and desktop-for-power and having to share everything over distributed tools, but it took a good month of futzing to get it running stably and to get it to reliably swap drivers when plugging/unplugging. 0: egpu.io