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Wasn't the point of "fully living in the cloud" that you wouldn't need a powerful client? Wasn't "thin client" the dream? Then again, I guess that's why the em

Wasn't the point of "fully living in the cloud" that you wouldn't need a powerful client? Wasn't "thin client" the dream? Then again, I guess that's why the emphasis here is on portability and screen quality... so that makes sense. Then again #2, you need a powerful client these days to run all of the Javascript being used... so the i5 CPU makes sense. Okay, this is moderately interesting.

JoshTriplett 14y ago
A higher-end processor also helps decode 1080p or higher-resolution video, or run Native Client apps and games, or just render browser content at 2560x1700.
dragonwriter 14y ago
> Wasn't the point of "fully living in the cloud" that you wouldn't need a powerful client? No, the point was that you could seamlessly move between different clients in the event of hardware failure, being away from your primary device unavoidably, etc. > Wasn't "thin client" the dream? "Thin client" may have been someone's dream, but it certainly hasn't been Google's rich clould-based apps vision.
- taligent 14y ago
  > No, the point was that you could seamlessly move between different clients One word. Dropbox. I work on three computers every day. Documents, Preferences etc all sync immediately. And how does living in the cloud help me when there is network failure ?
  - dragonwriter 14y ago
    >> No, the point was that you could seamlessly move between different clients >One word. Dropbox. Yes, Dropbox is an example of using the cloud to make it easy to move between client machines. > I work on three computers every day. Documents, Preferences etc all sync immediately. And how does living in the cloud help me when there is network failure ? Using Dropbox to provide immediate sync of document and preferences is living in the cloud. And "living in the cloud" works fine in network failure, if you have a mechanism to operate offline when the network is unavailable and resync when the network is available -- whether that's because you use a desktop OS and local apps with synchronized cloud storage or webapps with offline functionality, the latter of which is a feature Google pushed very hard for years on.

JoshTriplett 14y ago

A higher-end processor also helps decode 1080p or higher-resolution video, or run Native Client apps and games, or just render browser content at 2560x1700.

dragonwriter 14y ago

> Wasn't the point of "fully living in the cloud" that you wouldn't need a powerful client? No, the point was that you could seamlessly move between different clients in the event of hardware failure, being away from your primary device unavoidably, etc. > Wasn't "thin client" the dream? "Thin client" may have been someone's dream, but it certainly hasn't been Google's rich clould-based apps vision.

taligent 14y ago
> No, the point was that you could seamlessly move between different clients One word. Dropbox. I work on three computers every day. Documents, Preferences etc all sync immediately. And how does living in the cloud help me when there is network failure ?
- dragonwriter 14y ago
  >> No, the point was that you could seamlessly move between different clients >One word. Dropbox. Yes, Dropbox is an example of using the cloud to make it easy to move between client machines. > I work on three computers every day. Documents, Preferences etc all sync immediately. And how does living in the cloud help me when there is network failure ? Using Dropbox to provide immediate sync of document and preferences is living in the cloud. And "living in the cloud" works fine in network failure, if you have a mechanism to operate offline when the network is unavailable and resync when the network is available -- whether that's because you use a desktop OS and local apps with synchronized cloud storage or webapps with offline functionality, the latter of which is a feature Google pushed very hard for years on.