hard-drive-to-go

[mraeryceos]

I only want to have one system. How many of you have multiple computers, but find that you end up using one computer as the "main" computer. If you like to take your computer with you, then the main computer is probably a laptop.

You would like to use your more powerful desktop. You may have tried synchronizing, but you find having to install software, change settings, etc, on two different machines to be too much of a headache, right? Even after finding tons of ways to streamline this, you throw your hands up in the air, and follow the path of least resistance: just use the laptop. I'm looking for a better way.

Is Windows capable of picking the right drivers to use (for example, introducing a special docking mode), if you were to move your laptop's hard drive to your desktop when you got home? You boot up your desktop from your laptop's hard drive (adapters exist). You are using the same operating system, your same program files, your same documents.

How to accomplish this? My experience is that booting the desktop from the laptop drive, things don't go so well. Suggestions?

[mraeryceos]

This would be very nice also:

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6473789.html

A computer coupling device is provided for coupling together two computer systems, such as a notebook computer and a desktop computer, to allow each computer to share the system resources of the other computer and to allow the two computer systems to perform dual-CPU parallel processing. When the notebook computer wants to gain access to the system resources of the desktop computer, the computer coupling device connects the host bus and the PCI bus of the notebook computer respectively to the host bus and the PCI bus of the desktop computer. Alternatively, when parallel processing is required, the computer coupling device connects the CPU of the notebook computer to the CPU of the desktop computer to allow the two CPUs to exchange data during dual-CPU parallel processing.

Heck, you could even move your solid state drive to your phone, and have your phone use the same scalable operating system. Ok, that's a bit of a stretch... Edited March 10, 2009 by mraeryceos