>How about a diskless laptop that boots from cloud storage? While this is a cool idea, how much bandwidth would you need to boot at roughly the same speed you

>How about a diskless laptop that boots from cloud storage? While this is a cool idea, how much bandwidth would you need to boot at roughly the same speed you do today? Some SSDs have 500 MB/s (~4 Gbit) read. You'd need to have gigabit networking with almost zero latency for that to perform well. I suppose a smaller OS like Chrome OS would be perfect for that. Even if this worked on fiber, how would you boot over a cellular network? Aside from costing you a ton of money, it would take forever to download.