> Apple once thought carrying your life (your Mac OS X home directory) was a good idea when they publicly announced "Home on iPod". They quickly reversed course

> Apple once thought carrying your life (your Mac OS X home directory) was a good idea when they publicly announced "Home on iPod". They quickly reversed course. FWIW, this was also the original pitch of the NeXT computer. As a student you'd carry around all of your stuff on a single magneto-optical disk (a predecessor to CD-RW), and stick it into any available NeXT on campus to continue doing work.