Aspire One AO1-131-C9RK Cloudbook Intel Celeron N3050 1.6GHz 2GB 32GB 11.6in W10

Fist I bought mine off ebay for $9 shipped with broken screen and whole lot sticky residue from tape and stickers. I can forgive a lot faults at that price point. LOL Yep it is a AO1-131-C9RK! Shows what they are worth in short order, huh? Got new generic screen for it for $18. Hint if you ever replace one of these just look for generic 11.6 inch screen (non-touch) with 30pin connector. Dont spend more for one guaranteed to work on the AO1-131-C9RK. The generic fits exactly and you seriously wouldnt know the difference. None of these little laptops have super high quality screens. Took all five minutes to change it out, lot videos on this sort thing on youtube. Simple once you've seen it done.So it boots up to some strangers win10 login screen. So I reset win10 to factory from reset partition. Thats an annoying long process. This reset puts it back like new including bloatware that came with it new. Thanks ACER. My goodness ACER likes the bloatware. I uninstalled anything that didnt look like hardware driver though pretty sure some of those are just bloatware drivers where its huge, but windows actually uses some 20kb ini file out of all that mess, rest is just salesmanship and bluff. MacAfee was especially nasty as it has anti uninstall stuff that has to be disabled first. Still leaves huge mess of bloat that M$ installed and doesnt want you to uninstall since uninstall is greyed out. Its easier to prune this during actual installation with third party "win10 LITE" script but this was a reset, not an install. I ran Destroy Windows Spying and got rid of all but Cortana, Edge, and Store. Told Cortana to shut up and go sit in the corner. Edge despite my earlier lackluster experiments with it on another computer actually ran pretty fast. Maybe this is newer version?? No interest in store. Also DWS blocked communication with all known M$ servers using hosts file and firewall. No mandatory/inconvenient updates this way. Oh and downloaded Kmeleon browser. I have yet to experiment, says I can install Firefox NO-SCRIPT extension with some effort, unfortunately wont just work out of the box. Worth it cause Kmeleon is very small fast browser. Long ago I had a win95 only laptop long after everybody else had moved on, Kmeleon was last browser truly usable on that thing. Firefox gets ever more bloated as time passes.Might mention when I bought this ACER, I also picked up a similar used Lenovo 100s with win10 problems that turned out to have bad/failing eMMC flash drive. People call them SSD, but they really are more crude, like a camera flash card on steroids. Unlike the ACER with its celeron, it has the BayTrail Atom setup, more common in tablets and lot less friendly to linux. eMMC cant be replaced so I used external SSD velcro'd to lid and hooked to usb for it. Installed Sparky Linux which supports its hardware nicely.Even with different processor, they are very similar machines. Suspect the other such win10 cloud laptops are too. I like Sparky Linux much better than win10 but probably like the ACER laptop bit better than the Lenovo.As to other comments about all these win10 cloud laptops and poor slow operation. Frankly it comes down to win10 trying to serve two masters with very limited resources. Since left as installed it wants to spend its time phoning home to Bill Gates, downloading mystery updates, and trying to sell me stuff, it cant do very good job doing what a computer operating system should be doing for its owner. Once stripped of much of its nonsense and locked down, it runs pretty well despite minimal hardware specs on this computer.Installed my preference of free version Jarte for word processor. Seriously dont really need some huge mega bloat office program to write a letter or even write a novel... And file search called Search Everything. Oh and Ifran and VLC.Now my rating of four stars is for fully functional version, not including my efforts to resurrect my bargain. Its ok, has much friendlier bios than the Lenovo 100s. Keyboard is ok. The trackpad sucks though its usable for most part. Get a mouse. Seriously, get a mouse! Wifi at first couldnt see my router for couple hour, then all at once it did and works to connect ok after that. Be prepared to spend lot time cleaning up and locking down win10 and making it behave. Sad thing lot people that buy these think of it same as buying a toaster or microwave. Should just work great out of box. But in real world, computers tend to require lot tinkering and customizing. Both ACER and Microsoft and every other company for that matter, dont have your best interests at heart, they are in it to maximize profit. Sorry little fact of life. You need to look after your own, not worry about what makes corporations happy.Modify what they offer to best serve YOUR needs and wants if what they offer makes economic sense to you. Personally I have to scratch my head about people so happy to give $150 to over $200 for what is basically computer with ten year old specs. The only real advantage to these chrome and cloud books is their light weight and ability to go long time on a battery charge. If you dont need those things in an extreme, you can get a perfectly functional early two core, ten year old, laptop for much less. Some of those old buisiness laptops were built amazingly well but then they sold for the big bucks back in the day so they could build in lot more quality at that price point. I doubt any of these little plastic cheapies will be around in ten years.Oh anybody using this as your home computer, invest in an hdmi cable and hook it to your tv or with an adapter, can even an old desktop monitor. Lot easier on the eyes than staring at tiny screen. A full size keyboard nice too.....UPDATE_12APR2017: Having two similar netbooks like this with win10, means one doesnt get used that often. In my case, its the Acer that doesnt get used much. Recently I ordered a Knoppix Linux 7.7.1 live dvd off ebay. Wanted to try it on different computer. I ordered the live dvd cause I am on metered cell hotspot and it would be crazy to download the large iso myself. Anyway, I hadnt used Knoppix for some years. It used to be the goto live linux cd in good ole days. I was amazed how well it ran on my ancient XP era desktop with 2GB ram a hyperthreaded single core processor, and it had option to make a "live usb thumbdrive" version. Insert thumbdrive and click little install script on desktop. Mostly automatic. You point it at the thumb drive and indicate if you want a save file in any unused space on the thumb drive or elsewhere. Done.Well amazingly the Knoppix thumb drive would boot on desktop (regular legacy bios) and on my Lenovo Ideapad 100s-IBY (UEFI-only bios), though it didnt have drivers for either audio or wifi on the Lenovo which used quadcore Atom processor. And I mostly use the Lenovo as a dedicated win10 for Kindle app.As afterthought I tried it on the Acer. Secure Boot off, but UEFI on, not legacy. It booted and amazingly it had driver for the wifi and the sound. It has an app for monitoring battery, but you have to start it, doesnt automatically do it. I suppose eventually I will set app to automatically run when Knoppix boots. And frankly with old eyes, I pretty much have to have these tiny screens at full brightness so didnt bother looking for app to dim screen on battery power. Though I suspect if there isnt an app or setting there already, no doubt is one available for linux that can adjust brightness.I havent tried installing Knoppix to the built in eMMC drive though I have thoughts of doing it as I really dont need win10 for anything and even cleaned up and locked down, win10 takes like three times the space. Installed in live version format like I did to the thumb drive, it would take little over 4GB of the drive for Knoppix. The rest could be set as the save/storage partition during setup. Thats nice bit storage left for personal files. Knoppix includes just about everything except kitchen sink (its compressed like when run from the live dvd) so not like you would need to add much software. Your choice of Firefox or Chrome or Konqueror browsers. Been a while since I had used Chrome. I am not that thrilled with its extension addons compared to Firefox, but it runs plenty fast and is quite usable. Course with both Firefox and Chrome, I use ad blocker ultimate, self destructing cookies (called something else in Chrome), and NO-SCRIPT (used something similar but with different name in Chrome). Also zoom extension to help with small screen. These are important browsing on computer with low spec hardware. These netbooks dont have resources to be serving more than one master. Best thing one isnt constantly having to battle win10 with its hidden agendas.