here's an idea, someone tell me if it'll work....and how....

now that memory has gotten so cheap, would it be possible to put 4gb of memory in a system, set up the hard drive with xp or something, then make a virtual drive in ram or make a cd that would load a virtual drive on startup and have it load the os to the memory and have a computer you could use to surf the internet and have no hard drive at all....

you could even load word probably...i realize you'd be hosed if you lost power....

or what about loading and entire system on to a 2gb usb thumb drive and running it from there......then you could take the system with you for security when you left......

i am sure there is tons of stuff on this so someone point me to it or show me the way.......thoughts?