Here’s a random use case for this: retirement homes. A laptop is too unergonomic for an old person. But they don’t want to take up the space in their little apartments with a big desktop setup. They’re happy to go to a computer lab. But a shared computer introduces complication. But I have to admit it’s a pretty narrow slice of that population that is sufficiently motivated to use a computer. Also they’d be better served with ChromeOS than Windows. You could have a ChromeBox that runs by plugging in a single USB cable and plug it into a monitor with a built in hub and a normal keyboard.

I’ve thought about this dual desker problem. It always seemed wasteful lugging around a whole laptop and not really needing the battery and carrying around an extra inferior keyboard and screen.

My thought is to run off a live SSD. My idea was also to introduce a layer of virtualization and a copy-on-write filesystem with FS level syncing for backup. Then you’d have a full disk image backup so you could pick up right where you left off in a VDI if you lost the SSD.

A raspberry pi is not a serious replacement for PCs in the enterprise. There’s nothing the pi does that HP and Dell couldn’t do if they wanted. The Pi just seems cheap because it can cut corners that don’t matter to hobbyists but that enterprises would never accept.

A raspberry pi is much less powerful.