On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 14:54:26 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
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> On Saturday, July 2, 2016 at 9:34:44 AM UTC-10, sf wrote:
> > On Sat, 2 Jul 2016 12:09:10 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <dsi1com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Yikes, the mortals have evoked the name of the Gods again... Local storage is going the way of the steam engine. That's hard for people who grew up during the age of hard drives to accept but time marches on. Obviously, the goal is to not even have to rely on a powerful local processor. Such a "computer" will require a fast wireless broadband connection. We'll get that.
> > >
> > > I'm typing this on a nifty ASUS Flip chromebook. The only thing I had to do to set it up was log into my Google account and it synchronized in a few seconds. I don't have to configure anything. That's why it's the future. It even runs Android applications - well, I did have to reconfigure the OS to be able to do that but it's a small price to be able to glimpse a few months into the future.
> > >
> > > You guys don't care about Android applications but this development has Microsoft shaking in their boots. Their Windows 10 free upgrade program is due to end at the end of this month - Windows 10 at $110 is going to be a hard sell. They will be forced to change their plans. Contrary to popular belief, MS is not worried about Apple. Their big headache is Chromebooks and Chrome OS and now Chrome/Android. And the beat goes on.
> >
> > I love the way everything is synched in the cloud, buy a new phone and
> > it looks just like the old one with every browser tab (or grocery
> > list) just the way it was on the old phone after it's set up... but
> > Google Drive is giving me a hard time. I still haven't got it set up
> > to be seamless, so it syncs with my computer, which means it stores
> > copies locally and now I've run out of space on my tiny 128 GB SSD. I
> > ordered a SanDisk 64 GB class 10 SD card yesterday (for under $20)
> > from Amazon and I'm hoping I'll be able to find a way to tell GDrive
> > to sync with the SD card, not the SSD.
> >
> > On the bright side, we'll have 128 TB (not GB) SSDs by 2018.
> > http://www.geek.com/chips/toshiba-ha...-2018-1632425/
> >
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> >
> > sf
>
> Portability of data has always been desirable. It's why we have floppy disks, and optical disks, and USB drives. These days we no longer need those thing. OTOH, there's still some need for these huge storage devices. I wouldn't think there would be but then, they exist or will exist.

In the mean time, 128 GB simply isn't enough even with cloud storage.

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sf