Nearly no storage upon arrival.

[Niecy_99]

What happens if you run out of memory on the Acer Aspire Cloudbook? Will it shut down? or can I still use it online, but not be able to save new files to the hard drive? Most people have less than the advertised amount of storage space when they start it up for the first time.

 

[webworkings]

Well if you have run out of room, you won't even be able to access the internet eventually as when you visit any site, it puts data and files on the computer. Which takes up room.

Most computers, even when they are new, have quite a lot of space. And it isn't that they have less than the specs say, but that the software they have installed, including the OS, take up some of that space.

If you want to keep using that laptop to do anything, including accessing the internet, you will need to clear off space. If you don't want to delete files, you can simply ZIP up the ones you want, but don't use all the time. That will free up a little space.

Otherwise you would have to consider some form of external drive.

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Niecy_99,

I would agree with webworkings. You should always leave some free space, so your system can operate properly.
As for the fact that you get less storage space than advertised, I would say that this confusion comes from the different measurement standards used. Check this out: https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=615

Cheers,
D_KnoW_WD

 

[webworkings]

Ya know I find their using rounded off/even numbers to describe sizing (MB, GB, etc.,) sadly lacking. Why is it that the 24 is always left off? I mean a Kilobyte is 1024 Bytes. Older computers actually used the correct version, but now they use the Kilobyte is 1000. Interesting that it has been downsized. 24 might not seem like a lot, until you start multiplying into MB, GB, TB, etc.

Here is what I am referring to.... Note the left side is also the same as it 'used' to be for computer/hard drives...