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To: Dan3 who wrote (19554)	11/19/2000 11:32:49 AM
From: that_crazy_doug	Respond to of 275872

<< I wish it were that easy. There are many configuration changes made to programs, the programs themselves, things like bookmarks and cookies, downloaded plug-ins, the list goes on and on. Bookmarks and cookies can usually be moved, by how about preference changes? How about missing plug-ins? How about applications that they've come to depend on that can't be installed on the new machine for any of a number of reasons? (the simplest being that they've lost some or all of the original program disks, other issues can be compatibility with the new system). >> Swappable harddrives and network storage solve all those problems except installing new drivers for the new hardware, but I don't think that auto installing drivers are going to be an overwhelming challenge moving forward. Remember how hard it was to get any peripherals working about 10 years ago? Now everything is pretty much plug and play. I think it's pretty straight forward to imagine an environment where you have a harddrive that basically pops in and out to keep the data on and the new hardware all works through something like a USB protocol where it all works behind the scenes.