OSX To Feature Portable User Accounts?

eldavojohn writes "A new patent filed by Apple is causing speculation that OSX is soon to receive a new feature. From the article: '[the patent states] that the user account may be stored alongside general data storage or "other functionality". All of which seems to suggest that at some time soon we may be able to load our user accounts onto an iPod, hard drive or USB keydrive and take them wherever we go.'"

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Re:So Apple patents automounting home directories

[nuckin futs]

Apple did not invent it nor develop it, like a lot of things. They just make it easier for joe sixpack to use and implement such things. Simple, seamless and flawless integration is their forte.

Re:I farted

[__aaclcg7560]

I wish these damn Windows users could learn how to open a window and let some fresh air in.

Ain't New, but ...

[angst_ridden_hipster]

... just to fuel all manner of rumors and innuendo, I will paraphrase a highly placed source(*) who tells me that this is going to be the "Killer Feature" of the iPhone. You'll have your music in the iPod portion, the address book and calendar will all automatically integrate, plus you'll be able to carry around your full computing environment.

No word on what this means for those of us who are photographers and have hundreds of gigabytes of image files on our desktops. There may be an "offline" catalog option for the next iPhoto, along the lines of iViewMedia Pro.

(*)Yeah, well, highly-placed may be an exageration. I mean, he placed in the 50th percentile on his SATs back in the day, and he was high as a f-in kite when he made this statement to me, but other than that he's an upstanding member of our community. And he doesn't know an apple from a computer. Whatever.