I was thinking about that also, and mentioned it to a friend who has some experience with them. She said that they're terrific as long as you have internet access; as soon as you're offline they're holy pain in the ass.

When I'm writing I want to be offline pretty often, either because I've gone someplace where there's no wifi or because I want to eliminate distractions. For simple word processing, will a Chromebook make my life difficult if I'm offline?