Galaki said:
A lot of us are still on slow connection and/or bandwidth cap. Most everyone here are actually on 60GB bandwidth cap. That's not anywhere close to feasible for doing everything on the "cloud". At the same time, we're no where near the kind of high speed that we could do everything quickly without external storage.
However, laptop wise, mine has been going without the DVD drive for 4 years or so and I don't find the need to use it. I only actually used the DVD drive, maybe, twice in the last 4 years on my laptop. The rest of the times, I use usb key or portable drive. |
That future is long term, reason why I said we will need physical media in the near future for the transition. Not everything can be done by the cloud, you would still need a flash drive or hard disk. But I've been using cloud to sync text files or scripts to different computers, stream my music and from time to time stream video files. So it is coming, I've noticed changes in way I use my laptop from one year ago.
Also I see myself buying an SSD and a new battery for this laptop in two to three years time to extend it's life.
