What do you do with a Cloudbook?

[Cirrus]

Yes it does - it gets you from a to b which I imagine when you break it down and remove the flim flam and bull tulip was what you actually wanted in the first place.

Well of course you are totally right.

There does seem to be a lurch towards the Cloud. I'm sure part of it is certain high-price organisations (IBM, Oracle, HP, MS etc) are trying to defy gravity so they are chucking in money to subsidize market share. When people are giving handouts, it's always worth taking a look. Seems to me this is Windows 10 plus Office 365 plus OneDrive storage with a computer thrown in for free.

[original PM]

I'm not sure it's pretty decent. I bought it because I'm a tightwad. It's the same with cars. I look at something and then think I'd really like a bit more power/0-60 in 6 secs and then a camera at the back and lights that come on by themselves. Oh - and the heated steering wheel of course. And the price comes to £45000. So I finish up driving around in a Corsa. It doesn't do anything I set out to do. But at least it's dead cheap!

Yes it does - it gets you from a to b which I imagine when you break it down and remove the flim flam and bull tulip was what you actually wanted in the first place.

[Cirrus]

I think you mentioned SD... isn't the point that you use SD/USB for storage if you need, and get a pretty decent laptop for the price? I assume you can't swap in a new drive easily?

I'm not sure it's pretty decent. I bought it because I'm a tightwad. It's the same with cars. I look at something and then think I'd really like a bit more power/0-60 in 6 secs and then a camera at the back and lights that come on by themselves. Oh - and the heated steering wheel of course. And the price comes to £45000. So I finish up driving around in a Corsa. It doesn't do anything I set out to do. But at least it's dead cheap!

[SimonMac]

Could you in theory have two OneDrives, and create a shared folder between the two, and use the web interface to move things from your main OneDrive into the shared folder which will then appear on your CloudBook?

I do something similar with Dropbox

[SpontaneousOrder]

You just go into the settings and specify which folders you want to sync with the local drive. Obviously you're not going to get 1TB into what's left of your 32GB drive

[d000hg]

I think you mentioned SD... isn't the point that you use SD/USB for storage if you need, and get a pretty decent laptop for the price?

I assume you can't swap in a new drive easily?

[MrMarkyMark]

If it's hidden, how can you see it to save to?

No need. At least you will never risk running out of disk space.

in fact a lot of client co's should take note of the technique

[stek]

If you Hide the OneDrive, that will stop it from syncing, so you can still save it to your 1TB cloud storage without it syncing locally...
https://support.office.com/en-GB/art...8-6efb09f944b0


it's one of the features of the product you've been sold.

If it's hidden, how can you see it to save to?

[WTFH]

If you Hide the OneDrive, that will stop it from syncing, so you can still save it to your 1TB cloud storage without it syncing locally...
https://support.office.com/en-GB/art...8-6efb09f944b0


it's one of the features of the product you've been sold.

[MrMarkyMark]

Anybody got any advice about these devices?

Yep. Don't buy one, by the sound of it.

[stek]

These cloud storage things are shîte if you're on a limited storage lappy, they're all sync services not offline storage. I believe in Dropbox Personal you can control what to sync but only from the local storage, not the other way.

I struggled to find any that are pure offline storage so I host my own now.

[Cirrus]

Why don't people supply documentation any more???

Is there no option to not have things copied locally?

I guess there must be. (= half the morning written off trying to track down the details on the Internet )

OneDrive was reporting 7Gb spare but I guess that was meant to be after you loaded your data. I couldn't see how to right click at the time but I've added a mouse and Explorer says in fact right now I have 14GB, which might just be enough if I store all data on an SD card.

Anyone else managed to get non-trivial use out of one of these?

[SimonMac]

Is there no option to not have things copied locally?

[Cirrus]

I just bought an Acer Aspire One Cloudbook from PCWorld. £150 including Windows 10 and a year's Office 365. Plus 1TB cloud storage. Can't go wrong for that.

Problem is it only has a 32Gb drive. This is common on these types of devices but you would think that must be enough.

I've just fired it up and before anything is loaded at all, there is only 7GB left (edit: actually 14 - see below). It invited me to set up my OneDrive but since I have 7Gb of files, and Onedrive seems to work by copying stuff locally, I didn't think running with 0 Gb would help me with my next tasks of setting up Office and ASP.NET.

Anybody got any advice about these devices?