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Old 06-08-2021, 02:38 PM
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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.
The term "cloud" is just a generic term that means you are storing data on a server that is remote to you, but accessible via the internet. So, whenever you are connected to the internet, with any device, you can make a temporary connection to the remote server and access your data. The data is secure because your have a user name and password that is needed to access your personal data that is stored on the remote server. There is no problem with chromebooks.