Can you put the entire computer on a stick?

[Winston]

Isn't that what Apple is doing with its Lion OS USB drives? They're for installation, but they run the computer while doing so.

The issue you'd run into is that the Mac OS installer installs things specific to a given computer. So you might find incompatibilities if you tried to use one OS install over a range of computers. But no reason it wouldn't work for several similar computers.

Then there's NetBoot...


Good luck.

- Winston