That said, you're right that the likes of Microsoft, Apple, and Google haven't had any incentive to make it easy for someone to easily transfer their whole computing configuration from one machine to another.
i understood it differently, but there are definitely people who don't want today's low-power tablet-style processors in a desktop computer.
(aside: let's remember that tomorrow's desktop processors will be lower power and more powerful even than today's tablet-style processors!)
those people are the ones that i'm specifically not targetting, here. i'm targetting the "good enough" crowd. and the makers. and the libre people. and those who are fed up with being spied on through devices that they paid for. we don't like paying to be snooped on, that's just f*g cheek.
No, but I'm the one that pointed out this HN thread on the arm-netbook list.
Edit: Oh, and I talked to you a little on the #arm-netbook IRC channel a few weeks ago. I use the same nick on IRC as here.