Anyone seen Keepod?

[jojo]

This was featured on the news. keepod.com/

www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27346567

It claims to be an OS in a flash drive, which can be used on older computers.

It claims that the problems with public computers is so many different users store almost anything on them, the whole computer is slowed down.

It claims that by providing a personal OS for each user, each user can store their own stuff on their own drive, so utilising and reviving older computers.

It claims that, at $7, it is the answer to the availability of computers in the Third World.

[vikingken]

Someone resurrecting an old idea again. Its bit like strapping a jet engine to a Tiger Moth and say your going to break the sound barrier. It wont work. Old crap wears out and the internet moves on.

[jojo]

That's what I was thinking.

But worse is the entire OS is just loaded into a bog standard flash drive. Something that could be done with one of the Nlite programs.

[vikingken]

It might work quite well on a USB3 flash drive, but on an old computer you wouldn't have a USB3 port. The early USB3 were not bootable, but now they are written into the BIOS. If these inventors had half a brain, they might put their ideas to better use. Your better off buying the cheapest laptop on the market, that trying to keep an 8 year old top of the line computer going.