One of the big curiosities about Google's Chrome OS notebook revolves around printing.
Everything on Google's Cr-48 laptop is browser based, but printing a document---hosted in the cloud of course---requires Google Cloud Print.
When the Chromebook landed at my doorstep, printing was one of the first things to investigate. The big issue---at least from an immediate setup perspective---was that I needed a developer channel browser, specifically Chrome 9. Also:
Now there are issues with the Chromebook. It's an early pilot program so this thing isn't ready for primetime. In fact, most of the hurdles with user adoption of Google's Chrome OS are going to be cultural. Can you live in the cloud completely?
Those questions will take some time to sort out. One thing is clear: Ease of printing will not be a deal breaker for the Chrome OS. Google makes this somewhat complicated round-about way of printing pretty seamless.