ASUS Cloudbook E406SA 14 Inch Laptop with Microsoft Office 365 (Intel Celeron N3000, 64GB eMMC, 4GB RAM, Windows 10)

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The next generation of CloudBook, was advertised to have a processor running at 1.6GHz, a 80GB disk drive, touch pad and WiMAX. However the company ceased operations. [9] See also [ edit ] The 14.1in form factor also allows for a decent-sized keyboard. Sadly, it’s not particularly comfortable to type on. The tray doesn’t have as much flex as other cheap laptops I’ve seen, but the keys don’t have a lot of travel and the key action is relatively loud. As a result, I found myself making more typos than I would have liked, but, as with most keyboards, you do start to get used to it after a while. You shouldn’t expect an enjoyable gaming experience, either. The Stream 11 recorded an average of just 6 frames per second on our Unigine Superposition benchmark, and that’s at the most forgiving 720p Low preset.

Using Geekbench 3, which tests overall system performance, a 1,646 score from the Cloudbook trailed both the Lenovo Ideapad 100 (2,446 with an Intel N2840 CPU) and the 2014 HP Stream 13 (1,802 also with an Intel N2840 CPU). NatWest, RBS and Ulster Bank to close at least 172 branches in 2023/24 – here's the full list, plus alternatives Wireless connections include Bluetooth and 802.11ac Wi-Fi. The laptop doesn’t support Wi-Fi 6, but at this price we don’t expect it to. Over several days of testing, the Stream 11 easily stayed connected to my home wireless router without any dropped connections. (Photo: Molly Flores)This is the standout feature of Acer's Cloudbook, a battery that lasts almost 15 hours on a charge. To be exact, on Laptop Mag's Battery Test (Web surfing over Wi-Fi at 100 nits), it took 14 hours and 43 minutes for the 14-inch Cloudbook to finally run out of juice. That's more than 4 hours longer than Toshiba's revamped Chromebook 2, which already has an impressive life of 10:05, double the battery life of the 2014 HP Stream 13 (6:26) and almost triple that of Lenovo's IdeaPad 100 (4:45). On the other hand, Chromebooks usually have lower-performing chips and graphics inside, although a handful of premium Chromebooks have been known to run on Intel Core chips. The reason for this is two-fold: the Chrome OS is lightweight enough that it really doesn’t need a powerful chip to run, and it keeps the cost of Chromebooks down. Color accuracy wasn't great, as the Cloudbook earned a Delta-E rating of 3.78 (numbers closer to zero are better). This put it well behind the Chromebook 2, which scored 0.9. As for a Windows laptop, it's more of an investment, but it provides a lot of versatility and convenience. You have the ability to create almost anything on a laptop and store files on it as well. This can be seen in a selfie I took in our well-lit office, which came out dark, noisy and without a lot of detail -- especially in my hair and shirt.

Though thin clients might seem like a more modern invention, they have been around for quite some time; before even when the term was coined. Thin clients come from multi-user systems that would access a mainframe by a computer terminal. These would pivot from providing command-line interfaces tographical user interfaces. In 1984, Unixwould come to support devices that ran display server software, or graphical X terminals. In 1993, Tim Negris, vice president of server marketing at Oracle, coined the term "thin client." Negris hoped to differentiate their server-oriented software from Microsoft's desktop-oriented products. In 1995, Windows NT began supporting multi-user operating systems with Windows NT 3.51. The CloudBook is a discontinued x86 subnotebook, or Ultra-Mobile PC developed by Everex using a VIA processor, chipset, and NanoBook reference design. It competed with the Asus Eee PC, the OLPC XO-1 and the Classmate PC. The device was categorized as a netbook when it was around 2008. With work related tasks, you will not only need sufficient amount of processing power, but a familiar interface with native work related applications that only reduce the overall time it takes to complete your tasks. That is what Acer’s Cloudbook is able to accomplish. Recommended: How Windows 10 Chromebook Killers Will Dominate The Affordable Notebook Market? Reason No. 3 For Purchasing A Cloudbook: Pricing For A Windows 10 Notebook Is Dirt Cheap When we tested graphics performance, the Cloudbook scored 18,605 in 3DMark's Ice Storm Unlimited benchmark, which was better than the IdeaPad 100 (15,481) and the HP Stream 13 (10,084). When I played Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft, I was able to get through a game at 1366 x 768 and medium settings with only a few instances of lag or stuttering. The Stream 11 lasted for more than 11 hours on our video rundown test, which involves playing a 720p video at 50% screen brightness with Wi-Fi turned off. (Note: Since our video file is too big to fit on the Stream 11’s internal storage drive, we played it from an external SSD.)Nivio also created a CloudBook based on Nokia/Intel's Meego platform; and owned the US Trademark for CloudBook, CloudPC. It was aiming to use a linux platform for delivering a full windows experience (Desktop as a Service) with an AppStore for renting software. It launched this with Airtel in India. Nivio was co-founded by Sachin Dev Duggal and Saurabh P Dhoot. The Cloudbook features a standard one-year warranty and comes preloaded with a superclean install of Windows 10. To help make your transition to the cloud easier, Acer also includes a free one-year subscription to Microsoft Office and 1TB of storage on Microsoft OneDrive. And because you're running Windows, you aren't limited to apps from Google's Web store like you are on a Chromebook. On the bright side, the 64GB of eMMC storage recorded transfer speeds of 48 MBps, which were faster than those of the IdeaPad 100's 500GB HDD (34.4 MBps) and the 2014 HP Stream 13 (27.2 MBps).