[steve-b]

You know, I wonder how practical it would be to have users save all of their important files--Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, tax-related information, resumes, etc--on a thumb drive or remote server.

Anybody with a library of audio/video files is going to have too much data to put on a thumb drive or upload to a remote server (unless they have a very fast broadband connection). This is a job for an external hard drive.

[Terpfen]

Yes, that's what I'm referring to. I don't mean some hosted server at a company somewhere; I mean a hard drive box stuffed in a closet somewhere, connected to the local network via wifi.