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Old 06-08-2021, 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Misky1951 View Post
I have decided to replace my laptop with a chromebook.

With yesterday's cloud outage, I was wondering if there were any problems with chromebooks since it's cloud based.

I know my gmail and audacy apps had to kind of reboot.
There is not just one cloud. A cloud is actually just a cluster of hardware devices and there are many providers all over the world. Many cloud providers have clusters in different locations that can be used as backup and easily switched to in the event of a problem.