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I worry that the hardware requirements are only going to accelerate the cloud-OS integration. Imagine a PC that's entirely unusable offline.


> Imagine a PC that's entirely unusable offline.

FWIW we had thin clients in computer labs in middle school / high school 15 years ago (and still today these are common in enterprise environments, e.g. Citrix).

Biggest issue is network latency which is limited by the speed of light, so I imagine if computers in 10 years require resources not available locally it would likely be a local/cloud hybrid model.




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