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So effectively your PC becomes a Google ThinClient.

Got all the Office Applications with Google Apps. Email/Communication with Gmail. The rest of the web. Multimedia with YouTube/Hulu/etc. Sounds like what majority of the people need. Even for work environments, would be pretty good (you can offer your proprietary application in the form of a web application).

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I'd enjoy replacing the "instant-on OS" partition on my notebook with this.

What I want is a good enough "instant-on" that it's my only partition, and I no longer have to worry about hibernation or sleep mode ever again. Have orthogonal persistence for everything, so I never even have to save. Just open the clamshell, or hit the on button. Something comes along to distract me, I snap it shut, take care of whatever it is, then open it up again, wait a half second and continue on where I left off.

The ideal laptop/internet pad would behave like the Nintendo DS, if the DS could hibernate, and not just sleep when you close it.

the ideal laptop / internet pad would behave like an animated piece of paper.

Add NaCl for heavier apps and a NaCl'd VDI or similar client and there's really nothing you can't theoretically do given enough bandwidth.

It goes beyond even that, with some sweet tech coming out:

http://vimeo.com/5404358

Interesting, I had seen OnLive (http://www.onlive.com/) but not this one (http://www.gaikai.com/).

So who copied who?

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