I hear more and more abt web "services"...... using
apps that are web based such as Google Services.

If that is the trend than why the horsepower necessary
in the laptop or desktop itself?

Seems to me that with services....especially with
laptops.... one needs FAST net connections and very
very long battery life.... NOT huge hard drives, etc.

Bottom line.... why not buy a cheap lower spec laptop
and just run services instead of expensive powerful
laptops?

me@privacy.net wrote:

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> Bottom line.... why not buy a cheap lower spec laptop
> and just run services instead of expensive powerful
> laptops?

Have you tried it?

-PS

P Settli <psettli********er.com> wrote:

>> Bottom line.... why not buy a cheap lower spec laptop
>> and just run services instead of expensive powerful
>> laptops?
>
>Have you tried it?

I've played around with Google services on my desktop
and broadband connection

But don't own a laptop to try it out

me@privacy.net wrote:

> Seems to me that with services....especially with

Seems to me that you would be out of your mind to trust any proprietary
data to an advertiser-supported network-based application, and almost
equally as out of your mind to trust it to a proprietary third-party
web service that you don't control.

Your stuff could vanish tomorrow and nobody would be accountable. Your
stuff could be intercepted over the air by anybody, and nobody would be
accountable. Google could decide to stop offering their apps tomorrow,
and you'd be SOL, no way of accessing your data even if you had backed
it up on your nonexistent hard drive.

Even if you were paying for the service, you would be living with your
neck in a noose. One expired credit card that terminates your account,
or one shift of business plan by the service provider that cancels the
service, and you're sunk. Worse, they sign you up for say $1 per month,
and gradually keep increasing the squeeze and every day it's getting
harder and harder to exit their service because you've got so much
vital data tied up on their service.

How would you work on an airplane? How would you work anywhere there's
no net access?

Web services are great for service providers because they're an endless
cash cow. They can be made to work in an intranet where you control the
server (though they've never been popular outside niche applications -
see how popular the NC concept is). Intolerable risk for any other
circumstance.

me@privacy.net wrote:
> P Settli <psettli********er.com> wrote:
>
>>> Bottom line.... why not buy a cheap lower spec laptop
>>> and just run services instead of expensive powerful
>>> laptops?
>> Have you tried it?
>
> I've played around with Google services on my desktop
> and broadband connection
>
> But don't own a laptop to try it out

Well my wife is using my daughter's 4 -5 year old Toshiba 1.3 gig
Celeron with 256 megs of memory and a 20 gig hard drive (and a D Link
wireless card) exclusively for the Web and it works great. Wouldn't
think it would cost that much to pick up one of those or similar machine
either in the USA or Europe. A high end Pentium 3 machine would probably
be enough - with memory maxed out.

-PS

zwsdotcom******.com wrote:
> me@privacy.net wrote:
>
>> Seems to me that with services....especially with
>
> Seems to me that you would be out of your mind to trust any proprietary
> data to an advertiser-supported network-based application, and almost
> equally as out of your mind to trust it to a proprietary third-party
> web service that you don't control.

[cut rest of very cogent paranoia inducing content]

Unless you don't truly don't give a **** - a total **** you come and get
me attitude. One who makes a hard copy of everything posted to the Web.
Everything. A hard copy backup.

Only laser printers need apply.

It starts with an attitude.

--PS

I never had any problem though with it. But I would be cautious nonetheless!
"P Settli" <psettli********er.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> me@privacy.net wrote:
>> P Settli <psettli********er.com> wrote:
>>
>>>> Bottom line.... why not buy a cheap lower spec laptop
>>>> and just run services instead of expensive powerful
>>>> laptops?
>>> Have you tried it?
>>
>> I've played around with Google services on my desktop
>> and broadband connection
>>
>> But don't own a laptop to try it out
>
> Well my wife is using my daughter's 4 -5 year old Toshiba 1.3 gig Celeron
> with 256 megs of memory and a 20 gig hard drive (and a D Link wireless
> card) exclusively for the Web and it works great. Wouldn't think it would
> cost that much to pick up one of those or similar machine either in the
> USA or Europe. A high end Pentium 3 machine would probably be enough -
> with memory maxed out.
>
> -PS