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Not the kind of message you want to see when using a computer that will only work by connecting to the cloud, but it was the message I got from Google Docs this morning. Server outages and holes in WiFi/3G coverage are what is going to make it difficult for ChromeOS to get large scale adoption.  Even in a corporate environment, which I still view as the sweet spot for a machine like the Cr-48, at least with a regular PC if the server is down you can still do some work locally while waiting for the server to be brought up. With the Cr-48, you are pretty much in a work stoppage. You can continue working on a document you started (for a while, at least) and you can read a page you've already opened, but you can't start anything new. I'm sure that these are issues that will be worked out, eventually - especially as the offline capabilities of HTML become more widely implemented and  wireless coverage is improved to serve the increasing number of smart devices - but there are still some issues with the technology today.