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New from Acer: $170 Windows 10 laptop

Kaido

Kaido

Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/04/acer-aspire-one-cloudbook/

11" starts at $169
14" starts at $199

Windows 10
1.6ghz Celeron CPU
2GB RAM
Full-sized keyboard
USB
HDMI
SD card slot
16, 32, & 64 GB built-in storage options

Free year of Office 365 Personal
Free 1TB of OneDrive space
Cloudbook 11 ships in August
Cloudbook 14 ships in September

Neat idea. Great price...cheaper than most Chromebooks. Curious to see how much the upcoming Atom X3/5/7 systems will be. Also curious to see how Windows can run on a 16-gig boot drive. They did some fancy stuff with Windows 8.1 using WIMBOOT:

http://www.howtogeek.com/196416/wimboot-explained-how-windows-can-now-fit-on-a-tiny-16-gb-drive/

So I'm curious to see what's been optimized in 10, especially since there are even better third-party alternatives available:

http://www.zipmagic.co/doublespace.html
 
Acer Cloudbook? Heh. Not a fan of the name. I'd rather see a 10.1" version.

I remember Doublespace (and Stacker) being around in MS-DOS era.
 
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ninaholic37 said:
Acer Cloudbook? Heh. Not a fan of the name. I'd rather see a 10.1" version.

I remember Doublespace (and Stacker) being around in MS-DOS era.
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I doubt you'll see many PC makers going with 10-inch laptops these days. Part of the point is to deliver a "real" laptop on the cheap, rather than a netbook. Remember, companies like Acer took a huge blow precisely because the iPad (and eventually, Android tablets) crushed netbooks. They're probably not eager to recreate that failure, even if the processors and storage are better.
 
I wonder which celeron processor it'll be using.

There are already atom windows laptops in that price range. I have the Asus x205ta and it's a nice little laptop. Right now it's only $150 at best buy. I got mine for around $105 when it was on sale for $130 and sold office key on ebay. It's acceptably fast for browsing and windows 10 seems to run well on it so far. Battery life is stellar.

If the Acer's celeron processor can be faster, it would be even better and 64gb storage would be very welcomed. One terrible drawback for the X205TA is that I'm only left with 8gig of space (out of 32gb) after upgrading to windows 10.
 
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Hmm Celeron 1017U perhaps?

"Cloudbook" doesn't really ring right for me either, and I'm not a fan of storing a lot of things via cloud anyways (I have like 4TB of cloud and I never use it).

PS- A clean install of Win 10 is ~16-17GB so it'd fit.
 
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Why buy a net or chrome book when you can have a windows tablet for the same or less money? When I bought my asus t100tam tablet I made sure that I was getting the ssd version with 64gb of primary storage plus I added a class 10 storage card and cold boots to log in in less than 10 seconds with my desktop a few seconds behind that in uefi mode. I love having the portability and I carry it everywhere with me so I can read my textbooks or do whatever I want. Each has its purpose and it's nice to see affordable portability coming to the masses.
 
Commodus said:
I doubt you'll see many PC makers going with 10-inch laptops these days. Part of the point is to deliver a "real" laptop on the cheap, rather than a netbook. Remember, companies like Acer took a huge blow precisely because the iPad (and eventually, Android tablets) crushed netbooks. They're probably not eager to recreate that failure, even if the processors and storage are better.
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Yeah, that's one of their main features on this model - "full-sized keyboard". Netbook keyboards were the deal-killer (along with 1024x600 resolution).
 
Puffnstuff said:
Why buy a net or chrome book when you can have a windows tablet for the same or less money? When I bought my asus t100tam tablet I made sure that I was getting the ssd version with 64gb of primary storage plus I added a class 10 storage card and cold boots to log in in less than 10 seconds with my desktop a few seconds behind that in uefi mode. I love having the portability and I carry it everywhere with me so I can read my textbooks or do whatever I want. Each has its purpose and it's nice to see affordable portability coming to the masses.
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Depends on what you want to do. I have a Chromebook as my main computer, and my wife has a Mac (Hackintosh). I use hers if I want to edit a video or nef from a chair with a real keyboard, but other than that, I just live on my Chromebook. No maintenance, no slowdowns, just zippy, fast, great battery life, and zero hassle.
 
Had two Acer laptops and never had issues with them, still got my one from 2008 with it's Core Duo T6660 😀
 
Kaido said:
Yup Braswell:

http://ark.intel.com/products/87257/Intel-Celeron-Processor-N3050-2M-Cache-up-to-2_16-GHz

Crazy thing is that tray price is $107! Being a dual-core with no hyperthreading, it's a bit crappier than your typical Atom Z3735F quad:

http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Celeron-N3050-vs-Intel-Atom-Z3735F
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lol yeah, figures to why it would be cheap. I have Z3745 and Z3770 tablets and they perform quite well, I can't think of having a dual core in this day and age anymore. Heck I'd be inclined to pick up a N2930/2940 (quad core) over any of the dual core variants.
 
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