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Originally Posted by frahse
Chromebook has shortcomings like with offline printing
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In practice I've never been inconvenienced by this. It would affect people who regularly have to print at a location that has no or intermittent internet access, so Chromebook buyers should definitely be made aware of the problem.
However, if you only tend to print from your laptop when you're at home or work, and those printers are connected to a reasonably solid internet connection then you'll rarely, if ever, be in a situation where you have to print a document and can't.
The issue with printing that will affect most Chromebook owners is having to either purchase a printer with Cloud Print functionality, or to have to boot up a Windows, Mac or Linux machine temporarily to make the existing printers available to the ChromeOS devices.
(For hobbyists, a Raspberry Pi makes a handy cheap print server that you can leave always on.)
Graham