Reddit mentions of (Discontinued) HP Stream 11.6 Inch Laptop (Intel Celeron, 2 GB, 32 GB eMMC , Horizon Blue) Includes Office 365 Personal for One Year

Lol, the megahertz myth strikes again.

In case anyone's interested to look at real benchmark numbers:

Typical modern netbook with a 2.13GHz Intel Celeron.

Omg, 2.13 > 1.1 so it must be like 2 times faster than a MacBook right? Right? Right?

Seriously though, why do people suddenly care about the clock speed number? The MacBook Air also has a lower clock speed than the netbook above, yet people never assumed it's slower than a netbook. Why is it different this time around?

I recommend a chromebook for people who aren't highly tech literate. Less tech support required because there are less things to screw up on the chrome OS. And its priced really well, $200-300 depending on the brand. Chromebooks can be less than $200 on kijiji.

This one is getting good reviews

2gb ram is fine for general use windows 10. Still using a Toshiba Encore wt8-a32 tablet with similar specs.

I use it for streaming 1080p video, steam in home streaming, psp emulator, ebook reader, web browsing.

Also see the many people who used/continue to use cheap W10 bay trail 2gb laptops: https://www.amazon.com/Discontinued-HP-Celeron-Horizon-Personal/dp/B00NSHLUBU

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1gb ram would definitely be limiting on W10. 2gb is fine.

The HP Stream 11 is small, gets good battery life, is powerful enough for its size, and comes with a year of 1TB cloud storage, which may solve your data situation.

If you don't mind using Google's suite of cloud based productivity applications, then the Acer Chromebook C720 would be a good choice at $200, which doesn't have any bloatware and can simply run Chrome browser and Docs. It's pretty fast too because it runs with a SSD.

If you prefer to have a Windows based comparable machine, then the HP Stream sells for the same price and comes with a year of MS Office 365 personal for a year.

If you'd prefer a larger form laptop running Windows, then the Asus X551MAV is only $230 and is 15.6", though it doesn't come with MS Office for a year.

The Mac loses in one vital area for me (who was formerly a big, big Apple person for about 20 years) — I'm wholly unwilling to spend the same amount that I spent on my above average desktop* a couple years ago to purchase a moderately above meh laptop. In my mind a laptop is an auxiliary machine that lets me use internet, SSH, and VNC/RDP when I'm away from my desk — at home or at work.

A MacBook Air might be tempting if you threw in an ethernet port and cut the price by about 50%. Something like this is just about perfect, but without the detachable touchscreen (though that might be cool once Canonical gets the Unity convergence thing going on in Ubuntu). Hell, even one of these would be better than the MacBook for me in terms of value, since Ubuntu 14.04 will run w/o issue even on my ancient netbook.

* ^(Basic Specs: Core i7 2700k, 16 GB RAM, 4+ TB storage, used AMD Radeon HD 6970)

Step 1. find laptop.

Step 2. Check if it has windows.

Step 3. Buy Laptop.


Pretty much any laptop with windows will be able to use skype. (I'm thinking cheapest way)
I mean.. you can get a Mac for 700 more but that would be your prerogative.

/r/Suggestalaptop works too.
I can find one on amazon in a bit if you'd like.

Actually I can be more helpful.

Here is what is important in a Skype Machine.

1. Webcam. 2. Mac or Windows (Windows is Cheaper Mac has better battery, Linux if you want the challenge (go windows)) 3. Wireless card, 4 Screen, 5 Dual core or better processor.
   
   This is a good cheap choice
   
   Here is another with lower battery life
   
   Good luck!

Judging by your comment, you may want to check out this!
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The Stream 11 would be a fine choice.

Sorry to hear that man. The stuck power buttons are pretty common so I'd suspect that first; try to play around with that see if you can get it to turn on (you might have to take off the back and manually loosen the power button back out, but for me even tapping around the area on my desk used to set it off).

There are also a lot of cheap laptops and phones circulating these days. I just bought an Acer C720 Chromebook for $150 from amazon.com for Black Friday. It runs Linux and you can put something like Ubuntu on it and make it a full laptop. Check out /r/chromeos for more on that. There are also some really cheap decent phones out there. You can look into getting a Moto G or Moto E. Perhaps T Mobile will offer some kind of cheap bundle (not so familiar with US carriers) or you can get it on a contract for low price? And of course if you look for used you can get it even cheaper.

Here are some more laptops:
http://www.amazon.com/HP-Stream-Includes-Personal-Horizon/dp/B00NSHLUBU/ref=zg_bs_565108_3
http://www.amazon.com/Chromebook-13-Inch-Gigabit-Storage-Black/dp/B00KD5SEPK/ref=zg_bs_565108_4 (currently on sale for $179)

Hope this helps a bit.

Personal favourite for a cheap laptop with long battery life would be the Dell Inspiron 11 3000:

• 11.6 inch, 1366x768p touchscreen
  
• Intel Pentium 3556U + 4 GB of RAM
  
• 500 GB HDD
  
• Price: $330
  
  It has a 50 WHr battery, which should give you around 6 to 7 hours on a charge. The Pentium CPU is based on the current Haswell micro architecture, which makes this laptop quite powerful for such a price point.
  
  The cheapest Windows laptop would be the new HP Stream 11 for 200 bucks. Comes even with Office 365 included. Has only a 32 GB SSD (which is mostly occupied by Windows), but you will get a TB of free cloud storage for a year. The Celeron N2840 is a Bay Trail CPU and I think the Stream 11 doesn't even have a fan. Should do the job just for some typing.

I haven't personally used it yet, but the HP Stream is getting a lot of good reviews / press and comes in at $200.

Intel Celeron N2840
2 GB DDR3L SDRAM, 32 GB Solid-State Drive and 1TB OneDrive Cloud Storage for one year
11.6-Inch Screen, Intel HD graphics
Windows 8.1, 8.25-hour battery life

Newer model https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B015CQ8SGE/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1462855077&sr=8-1&pi=SX200_QL40&keywords=hp+stream+11&dpPl=1&dpID=512dY%2BmlmlL&ref=plSrch

Older model https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00NSHLUBU/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?qid=1462855077&sr=8-3&pi=SX200_QL40&keywords=hp+stream+11&dpPl=1&dpID=51Zi9ve0DuL&ref=plSrch

The HP Stream 13 seems like the best fit for you.


I recommend you download the free AdwCleaner if you get this, which will whipe all the bloatware from your machine when you first get it.


Remove the HP tools as well, and you'll actually have a fast machine for the price you pay.


If storage is an issue, keep in mind that with the laptop comes 1TB free storage in Onedrive and you can always expand with a micro sd card

There's the HP stream thats a cheap yet decent laptop. Its very similar to a chromebook except it runs windows for your school needs. It only has a 32gb ssd. But if all you're going to use it for is basic school programs it should be fine. http://www.amazon.com/HP-Stream-Includes-Personal-Horizon/dp/B00NSHLUBU

HP Stream comes with 1 year Office 365, and cost about the same as chromebook. http://www.amazon.com/HP-Stream-Includes-Personal-Horizon/dp/B00NSHLUBU

If you don't mind Chrome OS, your best bet would be an Asus Chromebook 13. A sale on them for US$199 just ended at Amazon, hunt around and you'll probably find them somewhere online for that price.

If you absolutely have to have Windows, a HP Stream 11 is your best bet. Frankly, it's inferior to the chromebook in specs and build quality while being about the same price, but it's the best ultra-cheap laptop with windows on it.

Alternatively, you could always trawl Gumtree.com.au and hope someone got a laptop for christmas and is letting their old one go cheap.

Videos or music on my laptop

A good inspirational or educational book

And something to drink
Tea


Wine but I don't drink but to each their own :)


What I do like to drink Well your not the only one's who sick must be something going around maybe the Reddit Flu ;) Have you ever tried echanacha tea its pretty good for helping you get better quicker along with Vitamin c well get well soon.

The HP stream 11 http://www.amazon.com/HP-Stream-Includes-Personal-Horizon/dp/B00NSHLUBU is $199 and seems to run Minecraft well once you install an add-on shown here http://youtu.be/iNp6DMVTV4s

What do you think about the X205TA ? I know it comes out tomorrow, I have seen that people don't like the fact that the charger looks like it's an iPhone 5/6 charger.

It looks awesome. I am either going to go with that or HP Stream 11

I need 8-12 hours of battery life and less than 3 pounds which all of these offer.

Do you know what an Intel Atom Processor is and how fast they are?

http://www.amazon.com/HP-Stream-Includes-Personal-Horizon/dp/B00NSHLUBU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1421773893&sr=8-1&keywords=stream
HP Stream 11 Laptop Intel Celeron N2840

11.6-Inch Screen, 2.16 GHz Intel Celeron N2840 with Intel HD Graphics
2 GB DDR3L SDRAM,
will it run AA ? or at least open to get loyalty