Name: 5 Reasons to Buy a $188 Laptop
Uploaded: 2020-04-07T02:50:43.000Z
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This is a 188 dollar laptop, and I'm about to give you

Starting off at number one, we have the price.

At 188 dollars, the HP Stream is one of the cheapest

Windows laptops that you can buy brand new today.

Now, I took at look at the HP Stream a couple years ago,

the original model, and it was good but it had a lot

while keeping that price low, they've actually done

Recently, I did a video on a 200 dollar MacBook

Now it was a good system, however it is not for the

Now, not only is it going to be nearly ten years old,

but there is no warranty and no guarantee

At least with the HP Stream, you know that if something

goes wrong, you can just go yell at HP about it.

To really put the 188 dollar price tag into context,

you could pick up 15 of these HP Streams for less

than the price of a mid spec 15 inch MacBook Pro.

Now obviously, the MacBook is going to be a better

When you consider just how much this is able

to do, for so much less, it starts to make sense

And sure, some people do have specific things

a thousand dollar MacBook Air in their backpack,

and doing nothing besides watching videos

and typing some docs or emails or whatever.

And it just so happens that the HP Stream will also

do that, for less than a fifth of the price.

So, no, you should not buy the HP Stream if you plan

on doing hardcore gaming, or any kind of video editing.

However, if you're doing lighter stuff like most people do,

web browsing, watching video, playing games,

wait, do people still play games on Facebook?

- Okay, well if you're doing any of that stuff,

the HP Stream is going to be totally fine.

It's also still a full fledged Windows computer,

so unlike a Chromebook, you have all the advantages

of running a complete copy of Windows 10,

as well as all the disadvantages of running a complete

This gives you the freedom of using incredibly advanced

technology like not Google Chrome, you can install

heavy apps, such as Photoshop, if you have a lot

of patience, and you're going to get access to the full

library of thousands and thousands of Windows apps

Now when you hear the words, 188 dollar laptop,

it probably doesn't fill you with confidence.

But the Stream is, well, actually not that bad.

On a lot of ultra cheap laptops, it definitely feels cheap,

and while it isn't on the most premium side

for the Stream, it has a little bit of clickiness

The trackpad also isn't too bad, and that follows through

Sure, it's all made of plastic, at this price point,

but there's no real flex besides a little bit with

the screen, and the overall hardware feels pretty

decent, especially considering how light it is.

It's definitely not fancy, but you have all the basics,

including three USB ports, HDMI, a headphone jack,

as well as an SD card reader, which is important

for something that I'll get into in just a second.

One of the biggest downsides is the screen.

it was never going to be the sharpest thing in the world,

but what really lets it down is the fact that it is

Color accuracy isn't great, the brightness could be better,

So at 188 dollars, you should expect this to be

a blistering fast PC, and surprise, surprise,

Inside, you're getting a dual core Intel Celeron processor

four gigabytes of RAM, as well as a massive 32 gigabytes

Nothing is what I would call snappy, but at least it works,

and a big part of that is because this guy has four gigs

of RAM, unlike earlier versions, which only had two.

As you can imagine, Windows computers really aren't

that happy with only two gigabytes of RAM,

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