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Originally Posted by pablissimo
You, right there. You're a dumbass.
Whilst the idea of USB computers is interesting, surely more compelling is a profile stored online. We're not too far away from having 24meg broadband widely available, so you could have some kind of online storage provided by your ISP where you would store your files, running applications from application servers run by the companies involed. For instance, Word running remotely at an MS site and you paying some kind of subscription or 'pay per use' fee.
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Yeah, Application Service Providers. They've been around for years, running off services such as Citrix Metaframe.
It's not my area of speciality, but from what I remember they took off for a while, the market was flooded but they've near enough disappeared now.