Know what, I downloaded Firefox on my new computer only to sync the bookmarks and passwords (through Weave) and then imported all to Chrome. I downloaded Firefox only to transfer the settings to Chrome. Now Google , you had build the Google Browser Sync for Firefox. Cant you build it for Chrome.

James — aren’t you worried about Google Docs security? I’d hate to have my documents show up in someone else’s account.

http://blog.isc2.org/isc2_blog/2008/09/serious-securit.html

I think you are going about this the right way. Put as little on your netbook at first and add to it only as needed. You’ll be amazed at how little of what you think you need you actually use. Another suggestion: keep your music collection on another machine. Use Pandora or some other streaming music service (I use Rhapsody) for when you want music on the go. What I love about Rhapsody is that I can access pretty much any album or artist I want without having to carry it around. Third suggestion: Set up your office machine with Logmein Free and you can access those apps and files you didn’t put on your netbook when you need to.

I haven’t needed to access my Office docs much yet but will go the Google Docs route when I do. For the one-off file I can always just shoot it up and work it that way for now, until I get a full system in place to deal with them.

You can upload Office docs to Google Docs or the various other cloud office solutions and then work with them there, though in my (very limited) experience Google Docs doesn’t like large Excel files with formulas outside the basics.

And my issue with the cloud has and always will be that you lose access to it as soon as you lose web access, whether because of a service/power outage or you just being someplace where there isn’t coverage. Most of the companies I visit during the week are in buildings that greatly hinder cellphone reception, and one is in a town that I can never get any signal in.

I think the Goldilocks moment for me will be when someone has it setup for a continuous background backup to the cloud, and then it dissiminates to your other devices when they are connected. Like an Exchange server with offline access setup for all files, I guess.

What about your data? How are you accessing your MS Office docs?

great writeup; can you give us your top 3 netbooks right now, id like to get my first netbook

great writeup; can you give us your top 3 netbooks right now, id like to get my first netbook