What do you do with a Cloudbook?

[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?

[SimonMac]

Is there no option to not have things copied locally?

[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?

[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.

[MrMarkyMark]

Anybody got any advice about these devices?

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

[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.

[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?

[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

[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?

[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