@cyrorm - You can work with documents offline, as long as you're using an app that takes advantage of HTML5's offline storage capabilities. Granted, it's early days for apps that do that (Google Docs/Mail doesn't yet, will in about 2 months) - but there's little doubt it'll be the norm soon for web-based office apps. You can also simply STORE documents offline manually, and use them that way.
@rob.sharp - I thought they said you get a brand new machine every ... 3 years? It's included in the monthly fee.
@all - when considering the cost tradeoffs, you have to include all the costs associated with building, maintaining, and distributing an image for your company's PCs, with all software updates and distribution, with OS licensing changes (XP to Win7 license costs) and all drag-along application upgrades that come with that, with running and maintaining your own domain services (AD servers, etc.), and more.
I know we pay WAY more than $28 a month on software licenses alone for things like GuardianEdge (for laptop disk encryption), Acronis (for image mgmt), Symantec for anti-virus, etc. And that's totally ignoring the staff costs associated with all that.
Frankly, as an IT guy - it gives me pause, from a broader perspective. I think a lot of the industry lives off of companies paying for all the things I just listed, and a lot of internal staff either need to be repurposed toward more strategic things, or let go.
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