Acer and Microsoft create a rival for Chromebooks. New equipment called the Cloudbook; is a laptop with Windows 10, costing $ 169.
Back Terminal
Long before he junkies and hippies from Silicon Valley to the world donated a personal computer, the role of modern computers played terminals . Devices in the form of a keyboard and monitor (and earlier printers) adhere to a remote computer, allowing you to use its valuable resources to multiple users simultaneously.
The era of personal computers ousted the solution – thanks to them, each user had before him not only the components, used to Communication, but also the rest , responsible for the storage and processing of data.
But it seems that PCs stagger just great circle , backing us – at least in terms of the idea of action – to the age of 70 and replacing the personal computer terminal.
The Acer Aspire One Cloudbook • Fig. Acer
Competition for Chromebooks
are at the forefront of change for several years Chromebooks, or laptops running the Chrome OS (which – given the existence of Android – seems to be an unnecessary multiplication of entities) for which the natural environment is an ecosystem with Google operating in the cloud services .
From this point of view, the Chromebook is primarily a terminal that allows use of the services available on the server. His options are limited , but for a sizeable group of users offers everything you need.
It seems that Chromebooks competition grows. All thanks to Acer, which – what is worth emphasizing – is already on offer laptops with Chrome OS. This time, the Taiwanese manufacturer has decided offer something similar , but operating under the control of the competitive system, which in practice means Chromebooks with Windows 10.
The Acer Aspire One Cloudbook • Fig. Acer
Acer Aspire One Cloudbook 11 and 14
Plans for the emergence of such equipment, Microsoft revealed a month ago, but they were Only General announcements . Now lived to the concrete.
Presented by the Acer Aspire One laptops that Cloudbook 11 and Cloudbook 14. This twin models, differing in only the size of the matrix and capacity of the battery, of respectively 4200 and 4780 mAh, which is provide 6-7 hours. What are the specs of this equipment?
Cloudbooki are equipped with Intel Celeron processor N3050 (Braswell) clocked at 1.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 16 – 64 GB of flash memory, USB 3.0 and 2.0. HDMI, the modules 802.11ac Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, as well as a memory card reader and camera, image-recording 520P. In spite of all sizes (11.6 and 14 inches) screens of both models, manufactured in TN technology, have resolution of 1366 × 768 pixels .
The equipment was valued, depending on the version, 169 dollars. CloudBook 11 for 16GB, 189 dollars. a Chromebook 11 of 32 GB and 199 dollars. for CloudBook with 32 GB of memory.
The notable bonus for buyers of this equipment is annual subscription of Office 365 with 1 TB Share onedrive.
The Acer Aspire One Cloudbook • Fig. Acer
Cheap, simple and sufficient
What it seems to me, in this case more interesting, however, is not alone hardware debut . Oh, another cheap laptops with modest abilities. More important, it seems to me, however, that their manufacturer is the Acer, one of the pioneers of Chromebooks, which decided to offer customers a equipment in the same segment , but operating in a competitive ecosystem.
Google has nothing to fear? Or maybe Microsoft, seeing a rising segment of Chromebooks, decided to snatch him something for yourself? I draw some general conclusions solely on the basis of scanty facts in this case is telling fortunes from coffee grounds , but it looks like Microsoft’s counterattack, whose domain – personal computers – has already been breached by Google and Chromebooks.
What would happen? A few years ago we had to deal with cheap, simple computers , serving mainly for browsing the Web, content consumption (oh I do not like this expression!) And online activity.
Netbooks turned out to be a dead end and then quickly disappeared from the market. Chromebooks and – soon – Cloudbooki seem to better be getting in your time , backed by the services running in the cloud. For users, focusing on Web browsing, social networking sites, YouTube and core work with documents is quite sensible alternative to more expensive equipment and paying for opportunities that would not be used.
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