MojoPac "Mobile Desktop" Software Review Discussion

The MojoPac is a piece of software that allows you to store your PC desktop settings on an external drive (whether that be USB stick, iPod or external hard drive) and use those settings on any other computer. Following is a review of this software product.

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Personally sounds like a waste of a good $49.95 to me when you can use portableapps for free!

 

A great review Pulp, thanks for sharing your thoughts
The only thing I'm concerned about is the security of the connection.
This phrase :

is a little disturbing.But nontheless the software is extremely good for the users who cannot/don't want carry all their programs around with them.

PortableApps is irrelevent IMO.PortableApps is a set of extremely useful and portable programs .This program makes a connection between your computer or laptop to the host computer and you can work with the host computer's desktop.
Imagine having a huge database at home and wanting to look something up in it.Now, it might not be something that you can carry or want to carry around with a flash drive.While you can do it with the MojoPac.Or think that you have a server at home and want to check some things up while you are away or on a vacation.Again,the MojoPac is going to help you.

 

I'm a bit confused about what MojoPac actually does...Is it just VMware on a stick?

regards,

 

No, you run the program on you laptop and install the MojoPac server on your desktop at home.Then the program on your laptop connects to the desktop and shows what you would see on your desktop on your laptop screen so you can work with your desktop as if you are sitting behind it.[of course the speed might not be good always.So you might experience some slow feedbacks from your desktop]

 

Interesting,,,too bad games don't run well (or at all). What advantages are there over copying Virtual machines from my laptop to my computer when I need it?

 

See post #3.

 

Are you sure? I didn't see any server installation in the review and the mojopac website also speaks only about installing the software onto some usb device.

I think XP Pro already offers a basic solution for what you described. And Linux also supports remote login quite natively.

In my mind, mojopac is more like alternative to that, if you had your own bootable linux (or Windows embedded etc.) with you on a usb stick, but you don't have to boot the computer, you just need admin rights. Or I'm not sure, but maybe it is possible to run some distros inside a host operating system without booting, and without installing some software onto the host OS first, just run it from your portable drive.

 

This is just another flavor of Portable Apps or U3.

From their website:

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The "host PC" is the PC into which you plug the USB device containing Mojopac. It is not networking software that will connect the laptop to the desktop across the room.

Good review, but I agree with sc3 - save the $50. The list of games you can supposedly run with the Mojopac is pretty impressive, though.