> Oh, now I understand your question.

And I understand your original statement now and can see that I read it wrong. My bad. You were referring to the (non-)presence of a network which I misunderstood as referring to the (non-)presence of means for Wi-Fi connectivity inside the device.

> I have that set up at home and at most locations at my workplace.
> But what about elsewhere?

You'd be going to be stranded then, true, as long as you're reluctant to using cellular connectivity in such situations. To my mind, cloud-based operating systems are a bad idea from the start. I want my data *and* my applications to reside on my device. But as minator said, you can put Ubuntu on it and be done. Of course, 16 GiB storage (which would have to include the OS as well) isn't much though. So this objection of yours is very much valid.