7:35 later on in the HP streams life they upped the specifications to 4GB of RAM and they updated the storage from 32GB to 64GB, while still keeping the same design for a little bit then later on, they changed the design.
i found this and a purple hp 14 in the ivy on a side of a road i installed mx linux xfce on the 11 and on the purple hp 14 mx linux kde plasma , upgraded the ram to 8g both run fast and amazing both have SD card slots , i put 64 G in the 11 and a 256 G in the 14
THIS LAPTOP. HOLY SHIT. This was the first computer I ever owned for myself! It was just powerful enough to run Roblox and a Skype call simultaneously!
I own one of these HP streams, except is called the HP Stream 11 ✨Pro✨, what makes it so pro? Nothing, it’s got the exact same specs as any other HP stream 11 but it comes in black
It's actually a pro laptop for kindergarten and elementary school students And BTW lowest tier HP Chromebook today maintained the same chassis used in HP Stream
If you have a limited budget, it's better to buy a good, but used product. You can also save some money to buy a more expensive but better quality item. Another option is to take a good product in installments and pay it off over time.
I agree. I bought a $650 laptop that have RTX 3070, 64GB of RAM, Mechanical keyboard, and 2TB SSD from Yahoo Auction. If I didn’t met Saito Asuka the Nogizaka46 girls, I wouldn’t have seen that cute Mouse Commercial and I wouldn’t have known about Mouse G-Tune H5 laptop.
I worked at Walmart in the electronics department when these were new and I always thought they looked really cool aesthetically but resented the fact that they couldn't be upgraded at all. We sold a few of them, mostly to college students with cheap parents. The pink/purple ones were more popular than the blue ones. :P Even at the upper levels you don't really see bold colors like this anymore. :(
I worked at a Best Buy (Geek Squad in-store if you're wondering) and I always avoided recommending all-in-ones for this reason and that basically any physical damage was a total loss because the cost to repair could just buy a new one. If someone just needed a one-piece desktop thing, I'd just recommend them a larger laptop (like 17" I never considered those portable in the sense of using it on the go, more as a desktop that could be easily moved) and an external mouse. All the clean setup of an AIO, it has a built-in UPS, in a lot of cases the same money got a bump in spec, and they may not be completely repairable, but at least there's a chance you wouldn't exceed the cost of a new one if something went wrong.
Say what you want about Edge, but it was in no way worse than IE, so forcing it on Win 7 and 8 machines is the one time Microsoft didn't actually make things worse.
@@togoxo Chrome and Edge lost support on Windows 7 at the same time, since Edge uses Chromium (which also Chrome uses). But yes, Edge was a nice improvement over I.E.
Problem was it was super slow and you couldn't uninstall it. People should have still been given the option to delete it, and I think that's why many hated it. Also the fact it is the default for Windows search, even if you set another browser as the default.
@@LoganT547 I don't remember Edge being that slow, but still, not slower than IE :P As for being allowed to uninstall it, if they allowed that you could easily end up in a situation where you have no browser on the computer, so I can understand that. They have no excuse for Windows search :P
The HP Stream have a identical twin named HP 11. The only major difference is that the HP 11 didn't use eMMC for the storage and instead use a 500GB hard drive so you can replace it with a SATA SSD. It also only available in black. I replaced mine with an SSD and it's slightly more bearable for web browsing and typing. As soon as my college tasks require me to do some video production assignment, I dumped this laptop ASAP
as much shit as we give mechanical hard drives these days, I’d rather use one as my only drive any day of the week over eMMC… at least the hard drive is replaceable and generally gives you a usable amount of storage from the getgo.
It's like the biggest companies produce a wide range of products for every segment of the market. That's often how they become the biggest. Not everyone wants the same things from their computer, or has the same expectations. It's not HP's fault if the product you buy isn't suitable for the tasks you want it to do... they almost certainly manufacture a product that will, but they rightfully assume you have the intelligence to know what to buy.
@@another3997Chill out man it's a fucking joke, I can't believe you seriously feel the need to go full keyboard warrior with every comment. Go outside for fucks sake
understand this: its a horrible laptop though its only like $100 dollars for a reason its a budget laptop if you have a high end hp laptop like me you will understand that not everything hp makes it crap
I used to work in a computer store and would suffer PTSD from trying to dissuade unsuspecting customers from buying a HP Stream. The Streams only ever sold because they were often well below the £200 mark, and with good reason, these machines skimped out on nearly every part. It might be fine for a young kid but I couldn't possibly imagine anyone ever wanting to use one of these machines for their intended purpose otherwise.
OH MY GOD. i was NOT expecting to see one of my childhood laptops in my recommended today. I git one for Christmas back in the day and i LOVED it, as i only used it for browsing(i was like 10). Passed it down to my little sister and she barely uses it because its a piece of junk. Ah well
I hope that's not your PROFESSIONAL opinion, because without a full diagnosis, you can't know for sure what is wrong with it. Apple might replace the M/B because it's easier and cheaper for them. But even if it were one of those two, RAM and CPUs can be replaced by someone with decent soldering skills and the right tools. A lot of electronics repair services do such things on a regular basis.
@@another3997 dude, chill, this macBook is a very expensive landfill material, they are not serviceable at all, complete clusterfuck that should not be forgotten just because it's a very good example of how you should not design a laptop
@@another3997 He mentions in the MacBook video that it was liquid damaged, the keys originally didn't work and had to be cleaned, and sound was damaged too. He really should have mentioned that in this video too.
This is hilarious because I built a custom mini ITX workstation PC using an Atom-based HP Stream 11 with a dead screen. I proceeded to upgrade basically everything you can upgrade without soldering, such as gigabit ethernet, headers for ATX power and USB, PCI Express for a GPU (Quadro K620 was the choice for me), a new CPU cooling solution with an RGB fan, and more ;) I really should finish up that script and make that video happen. I have... words, to say about the HP Stream 11 and the trend it and the MacBook Air kicked off that I do not appreciate today. Fun video dude!
I worked in a repair shop in 2016. I saw so many people asking to upgrade the eMMC storage on the Stream, only for me to disappoint them and try to explain to the best of my ability what "soldered on" means
Soldered on means exactly that, and solder can be melted and removed. New parts can be soldered on. If your company's policy was to not undertake such upgrades, whether through lack of time, equipment, skill or just a general unwillingness, doesn't mean that it cannot be done. Is it economical for the customer? Perhaps not, that's just down to what someone charges for their services. But soldered on doesn't mean unfixable.
@@another3997Why would you defend such a terrible practice? Sure, soldered in does not mean it is literally impossible to repair, but no one would actually pay for the upgrade as the labour + sourcing compatible parts is simply not worth most repair shops' time or effort. And these companies know that by doing this they inconvenience the customer, therefore they need to buy a higher-end model to get a basic feature.
the reason edge seemed to be using so little memory is because it was split into several processes running simultaneously. combined, they were probably using hundreds of megabytes.
Windows 8.1 was actually the second "success" attempt to get people into Windows 8. It was actually not that bad, and I actually liked it the most out of all NT Windows. I still remembered the first Developer Preview and I LOVED it. It did have start button in the prototype before they eventually removed it in Windows 8 (and brought it back in 8.1). It's the time Microsoft realised that most people were still using Windows without a touch screen and they added missing desktop features back to the 8.1.
umm no that started back in like 2009 with netbooks and those horrible compaq/hp laptops that would randomly overheat and die lmao. one of my cousins gave me her compaq CQ40 and I fixed it "reballing" the motherboard with a very ghetto solution (wrapped the board in aluminum foil, then placed a soldering iron a few centimeters above the CPU/GPU area) and it surprisingly worked
my 2016 higher end hp is worse than one featured in this video because dreaded AMD, AMD was almost bankrupt because they were so bad the CPU in this laptop is at least twice as good as a four core a12 which is equivalent to a 2008 dual core core two duo
the HP stream 11 is perfect as a writing laptop and if you need a raspberry pi type single application computer that needs a keyboard and mouse. they're pretty good linux machines for that purpose. in fact I refuse to put windows on mine because running windows is nearly impossible now due to how slow this machine truly is. the space bar on yours I think it broken, because i don't have that problem on mine also the battery life is excellent, I can still get 6 hours on mine when pushing it to the limits (which isn't hard to do) but y'know you could just open vim and start writing a paper and still be quite happy as a distraction-free writing laptop.
I did a bunch of writing on a slightly older nugget, the MSI Wind U100 and for low spec machines like this Linux is really a game changer, it came with Windows 7 Starter, I replaced it with MacOS Snow Leopard, that was fine to use but terrible to maintain with every new Apple patch requiring hacks, but Linux is still usable on that machine to this day.
When I was in high school, I bought a Toshiba laptop with a Celeron n2830, for $350, at Walmart with all my birthday money. It was surprisingly decent. The CPU was slightly slower than the HP stream (boost speeds are lower) but It had a 500gb HDD, 4 gb RAM- which was upgradable with access to one DIMM slot. It also had a DVD drive and a touchscreen, which was great for Windows 8. I loved that laptop. I did video editing in Movie Maker, ran virtual machines, played Minecraft and even flight simulator (FSX). I used it well into college. The screen is dying now, but with linux and an SSD, its still usable, although since I built my first gaming PC I have had little use for it. But man I pushed that little CPU to the absolute limits as a budding teenage tech nerd.
I'd say 1.7.10. It runs way better than 1.8.9 On my old 2008 pc, when 1.8 released I relied on optifine and low settings to get a constistant 30 fps. Whereas on 1.7.10 I didn't need optifine. I threw the 2008 pc away when I got a decent midrange 1080p-1440p gaming pc back in 2017 for christmas.
I just installed Windows 10 LTSC on one of these for my grandpa a few weeks ago. It actually does run that version well enough for what he wanted, which was an old 2011 music writing program that crashed on his Mac. I actually also like the color a lot, and the build quality was pretty decent compared to some other laptops (but I hate having some of the screws under the rubber feet). The space bar even worked. I did get that same CMOS error, though. One thing that was really annoying was that it was missing the battery. I'm not sure if it came that way or what because it was my grandma's, and she had it sitting in her closet for years, and she always used it plugged in before that. She said she's never taken it in for repairs, and I've never modified it before, so I'm not sure how that happened.
I got one of these for school (it was practically a netbook anyway), it was passable on Windows 8, but I remember my dad upgraded the OS to WIn10 one night and it was atrociously slow and practically filled the tiny flash memory this thing has got.
The internal storage on Macbook is suddenly died. I've had a 2016 one with the same problem. You can easily check this by trying to boot from any bootable flash drive. Also, SSD is unreplaceable and soldered to a main board on these models, so replacing the main board is the only option to fix it.
A friend of mine had one of these and I had a similar one. The built in storage was what killed it. Windows 10 got bigger than 32GB in a year or so, they should have given it 128GB or at least 64GB. But I think otherwise it was fine for 2015.
I had an N2840 in an Aspire ES1-411. Socketed ram in those. Do note that any Silvermont derived SoC before April 2017 has a known LPC clock bug that can cause boot problems and corruption. Linux is additionally affected by power state bugs that cause lockups. USB/SD controllers are affected by the LPC clock bug as well. This was found to extend into further derivatives of the architecture. Mine killed 2 drives before I had enough of it
Tbh it was not that bad for a cheap consumer grade laptop. I had one in the family and it was very abused but it still kept on going,last time it was used in 2022 when it was dropped and the screen got cracked. Mine ran 10 too but it became a pain in the ass to run it on those specs after the 2019 update. It runs ok with Tiny10 or Linux tho
It was bad. Soldered RAM, CPU, even soldered, non-expandable storage. And a Celeron with 2GB RAM, Intel HD and eMMC storage is a combo made in the deepest depths of hell, probably designed for the third hokage.
@@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung Yeah but it was 150$ brand new or at least that's how much i paid for it. For a new device it was acceptable. I don't think 150$ new laptops even exist today anymre
I got my hands on a similarly specced Chromebook that had the EMMC physically drilled out by a school to “wipe” its data… I managed to get it to boot off of an SD card after flashing the bios by clipping directly onto the chip and using Linux tools on another device just to even allow that… It runs Debian kinda ok tbh, but yeah similar specs and it’s barely useable today.
@@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung Soldered RAM and CPU does not mean a bad machine. Most modern ultrabooks are like that today, and some (especially MacBooks and Yogas) will last a like long time for most users.
I remember owning this laptop when I was in middle school and trying EVERYTHING to make it run better to play roblox with my friends, deleted the texture stores, turned every USB I owned into a ReadyBoost machine for ram, got the biggest SD card I could find solely to play one or two games on the laptop, it truly was a struggle 😭😭
I have the 2017 version of that 12inch Macbook. Loved that little guy. My mom is still using it to this day without issue. Really hope Apple can revive that form factor (without the butterfly keyboard) and add in cellular connectivity. It’s gonna be the ultimate travel laptop
I have a HP Stream 13 on my desk with me right now. It has 4 GB of ram and 32GB of storage but came with Windows 10. I only bought this computer because I needed one immediately, like on the spot, because my other computer died and this one was the cheapest on sale in the store at the time. Mind you I had 30 minutes to walk up 5 floors (quicker than waiting for the lifts), buy a laptop, walk back down and catch a bus to work, so zero thought was put into this purchase. Anyway, long story short, I ended up running Linux Mint from an external 2TB Hard drive. However, recently I installed a very light distro internally and use it essentially like a Chromebook, eg Google docs, Microsoft 365, Photopea, email, social media and Zoom etc. I'm still using it and it still works well enough for what it is.
That thumbnail literally made me remember the annoying Dell lollipop ad from around the same time frame. 😂 Lollipop lollipop oh oh lollipop, lollipop "pop". 😂
I used to have a PC like this (not exactly the same PC though) that had specs similar to this one, like same CPU and RAM and everything. If you bump up the ram to 4-8 Gb and swap the HDD (if it has one, mine did) for an SSD, it's actually a fairly decent browsing machine. It was also able to do a lot of low powered gaming. While this PC in the video is likely un-upgradable, the specs were not the worst thing in the world. Games I used to play on it were World of Warcraft 3.5.5a (ran at 60FPS with a preset other than low, dunno what I used exactly), Stardew, Minecraft, etc. Nothing too demanding, but it worked well if you respected it's limitations. It's currently living out the remainder of it's life as a car diagnostic laptop.
That Stream 11 was a decent laptop under the right circumstances. My wife used it only for work from home using Citrix Workspace, and note taking for school. She needed to just do those tasks and carry it around in her bag on the subway. So it was just enough power and software compatibility coupled with portability. It still works today though it’s no longer in use. Also, we didn’t encounter the spacebar issue and found the keyboard to be surprisingly good. Lastly, I think your MacBook is dying.
I have a Stream 14, originally bought for my elderly aunt. The touchpad was too temperamental - having to shut it down to reset the hardware was too much for her. It has 4GB of RAM, so will run Win10 Home, but the 32GB eMMC means that fresh Windows releases are a serious pain, even after a proper debloat. There's also a load of space inside, but no connectors to add any upgrades. However the battery is still great - it happily plays pre-recorded 1080 videos (at 768) for 4 hours on a charge.
when you run low on memory with windows 11 lots of pages and apps get paused or put into efficiency mode. the 400mb sidebar thing with the widgets just dont get launched and into memory if its not being used. the amount of web pages and the reliance on fast ssd storage does make it almost impossible to run with an hdd or an emmc but ssds are cheap enough now. those new cheap windows 11 laptops you showed actually run just as fine if not better than the hp stream did when it was new. there oneof those terrible laptops (an hp one even) at my schools that is there to just view photos and powerpoints on a projector for the conference thing and it works perfectly fine its actually not even laggy. no one buying these laptops need or want more out of them.
HP stream 11 is probably one of the last "netbooks", a sub-genre of PCs I adored. I've had my eye on the hp recently as a "remote streaming" device for my main editing rig. It's probably going to be more decent running lightweight Linux. Also considered the 12 inch mac, but that's still pretty expensive second hand. Instead I got an 11 inch macbook air 2015. Much cheaper, been using it constantly for writing and remote editing (with BetterDisplay app installed) and streaming games. Using a tiny WiFi dongle to bypass the crappy in built card, and a USB C to Magsafe 2 so I can use any smaller 65w charger. The screen is low res, but usable, with 1080p remote desktop streaming slightly pixellated. MacOS's lid sleep function is extremely convenient, and it's built like a tank - the bezels also help as a buffer to protect the LCD from corner drops. Also, I'm looking forward to your channel growing much bigger, and the inevitable channel name rebrand when it happens.
Man I had this machine lmao, my first laptop (I was 13 or 14 back then) and it was amazing lol. I remember taking it to school once and ended up forgetting it in class and next day it was gone, the sheer terror I had because my parents were going to find out. They did, it went better than what I expected but they never bought me a laptop again until this year lmao
i ate my Grapes which i've left in the fridge for 3 hours to become extra cold while watching your video ( and i searched for it )... consider this your highest compliment blue_boi !
I found out that these HP laptops (at least the cheap ones from the era) are auto-configured to drop the display refresh rate from 60 Hz on mains power to something abysmal-either 35 or 40 Hz-on battery power.
These things must have sold like crazy around here in Oklahoma in 2015. There's still people trying to sell them for $150-$200 on Facebook Marketplace. It's insane. I mean, I might buy one for $20 just to play around with and give to my grandson when he's old enough to not try to eat it. But for my $150 in 2015 I got one step above this, a quad core Celeron Acer Aspire. 14 inches, full 1920x1080 screen, plays GTA San Andreas like a boss, but nothing newer.
Take it somewhere with fantastic lighting like at a concert or a nightclub and photograph it well. When I had mentioned that I bought what I thought was the proper class of SD card storage for this device that was quite a few years ago, and I would consider buying a much higher storage capacityand practicing how to boot from that SD card and using the bios and things like that so I’m still not getting rid of mine.
i had the touchscreen model of the stream back when i was 9 in 2016. the thing had 20 gigs of storage, and i had to connect a external drive to it 24/7 and I would play minecraft story mode at like 20 fps. good times.
I remember kicking myself back in 2015 for missing a flash sale to buy one for 100 bucks. I just wanted something to stream TV shows in my living room at the time. Luckily I learned about Chromecast a little later which worked out.
Wait, the "lol one port" Macbook came out just about 10 years ago??? Daaaamn I feel old now. Before we know it there'll be 10 year retrospectives on the touchbar Macbooks (like how retrospectives and mod videos on the trashcan Mac Pro are popping up).
I had this same laptop and actually was able to source an LG IPS display and upgrade it. It was a perfectly usable laptop for the price point. A great "upstairs laptop" for when you didnt want to do something on your phone.
I'm still using Windows 8.1 here in 2024 because of its stability. From my experiences its actually more stable than 7 and runs great on mostly any hardware. And its not like I have a computer that can't run 10/11, I just choose to stick to 8.1. Although I am considering dual booting 10 LTSB due to some games and a few programs not working with 7/8.1 anymore. My system is a Lenovo ThinkStation P920 with dual Xeon 6144 8c16t processors (16c32t total), 256 GB of RAM, and a GTX 1080, so its plenty to run 10, especially debloated LTSB.
the color is so cute. also is it the default wallpaper with those snowy mountains? I find that wallpaper adorable and it fits the color scheme so well. anywhere to download it?
I thought I like this video already. I’m checking to see if I have the same model I bought mine in 2018. I bought mine at a Best Buy and it was the floor model and it was simply sold to me with the discretion of the floor staff and it was as is without packaging or manual just power supply, but I bought it because I am nearsighted, and I wanted to be able to examine the settings very closely. I wanted to understand its bios and limits of its storage problems and the problems that would occur from it and also how to reduce the size of Windows 10 I went to Staples and printed a PDF of the manual and experimented with the fonts for readability. At the time of writing this, it is late 2024 and I am still considering buying another laptop in the HP stream series mainly due to its stylish shell and possibly opening up the inside, changing the hardware and keeping the shell if that’s at all possible.This was all before I knew about the framework hardware mentioned in Linus tech tips, and the upcoming possibility of Tesla offering laptops I will be reading more of the comments in this video.
Mine was bought in 2018 and I went back to Best Buy and bought a specific class of I think 64 gigs of storage on an SD card or whatever the modern version of SD cards were at the time to try to compensate for the sad amount of storage. there’s an auto detailing place in town that does vinyl wraps, and I was going to show them the appeal of this plastic shell of this particular laptop, even though I know somewhere online there’s an offer market provider that makes a stylish color wraps for iPads. I just thought there would be something better for all those boring gray laptops that we are supposed to buyand I thought they could make a custom wrap for this or from this to put on something that’s better hardware. I hope I make friends in this group.
that laptop got me through a good chunk of high school. When I brought it it came with windows 10 which ran incredibly poorly (there wasn't even enough storage to update windows), but thankfully it ran Linux perfectly.
I see a LOT of hate for HP and i get it, really do, but hear me out. My first ever "personal" computer was (is) a HP 640 g1 probook. It was a used machine but was cheap. It was 2018 i believe and this laptop has 4th gen hardware. NOW, me being a gamer wanted to "game". I played, GTA V, GTA IV, far cry 3 & 4, AC 4, COD MW&MW2&BO. So basically i have the best of my memories on this device. I had to do so much tweaking of .ini files and uninstalling bloatware. And when the games would run on 30fps it was so rewarding. I could NEVER have felt the joy if i had a good spec pc back then. That tweaking and modifying stuff got me into computers and now that i look back those were some amazing days. Because of my experiments on that machine i actually found ways to make crappy machines work better and its a whole experience. I still own my 640 probook with the ssd i bought with it in 2018 and it works just as it used to. Never replaced anything other than the battery. I still use it for emulating games and programming even though i do have a good pc. Its just the amount of emotions that are attached to that device that makes me never want to loose it. I think hp did an amazing job by making a device for every price range. From chromebooks to spectures and omens.
I remember having one of these for my freshman year of highschool when this released. I remember playing asphalt 8 on it a lot and even recorded the game too. It was also able to handle video editing just fine. Too bad i borked it when i installed windows 10
Both my sister and I have owned the 12" retna since 2015 and I can say that it's a really good laptop, but ahead of its time. In reality it should have launched with the M1 and it really would have been far more viable. Too bad ARM were not introduced earlier, or perhaps RISC-V
I still have my AMD EEE PC from 2011 and with an 8GB of RAM upgrade along with an SSD? Runs Debian just fine, perfectly usable as a web browser and watching 720P YT. I kept win 7 in a dual boot just for going back and playing some older Windows games along with nostalgia but even after 13 years it is still decent for the web.
1:23 What happened!? When looking for a laptop today, I have to go around scattering around to see if any good laptop has those ports, the most I get is a mini SD card port, 1 usb port, and like 3 F***ing USB-C, It's sad
i remember in 2015 actually really wanting one cause my standards were really low, i was a kid, and they were cheap, but i liked the colors and I didn’t have a pc at the time so they seemed intresting
I still like much of the IDEA of the MacBook - a really small premium laptop designed around low TDP chips. The one port was a statement that it was a mostly wireless machine. But the Intel chips stunk, you needed a dongle to back it up since most people do not have a wireless backup solution (if they have a backup solution at all), and the keyboard was terrible. More understandable in such a package than reusing it in larger laptops, but it was still bad. I don't think Apple will go back to this well, because they seem to see the iPad as its replacement and people seem to like big screens. But I do think an 11" MacBook Air with an Apple M chip would be a nice little machine.
I would love something that size with the more efficient M-series of chips. I personally loved my butterfly keyboard, and its still the fastest keyboard I've ever typed on, but reliability is the reason I ended up getting rid of it. Honestly the one USB-C port was a deal-breaker when it came out, but now I wouldn't mind it too much, would rather two but could get by.
I swear my mom had a laptop like that years ago. The only thing I remember it being useful for was for playing Jetpack Joyride. That was the most fun I had on it. It was before I knew more about computers. It had Windows 8 which I hated. It didn't have the traditional desktop layout. I thought I had ruined something because I didn't know how to go back. So I accepted it.
I had this laptop and I grew up with it in 2015. I did NOT know how I grew up playing roblox and making youtube videos on that thing, a few years ago I tried to get it back working and it was the slowest machine i've ever handled. Lets just say i'm using it for parts now
Also in windows 8.1 if you have a touchpad you can swipe from the right side of it and have the charms bar. (I also have the same specs on the 14 inch version)
Wanna see the Retina MacBook when it used to work? Here is the video I made about it!
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7:35 later on in the HP streams life they upped the specifications to 4GB of RAM and they updated the storage from 32GB to 64GB, while still keeping the same design for a little bit then later on, they changed the design.
did the Mac break
4 years ago I accidentally bought one of them not knowing the specs. (The one I got came with windows 10 + bloatware) it can't do anything
@@ArmedBread yes
i found this and a purple hp 14 in the ivy on a side of a road
i installed mx linux xfce on the 11
and on the purple hp 14 mx linux kde plasma , upgraded the ram to 8g
both run fast and amazing
both have SD card slots ,
i put 64 G in the 11 and a 256 G in the 14
Windows 8 was good on a touch screen.
Guess what most people using Windows 8 didn't have.
Good taste in operating systems?
@@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilunga touchscreen
Hands
Windows 8.1 was amazing though. Even on PC without openshell.
Yeah@@shimmyashimmya
2015 was 9 yrs ago
In 1 month, 2015 will be a decade ago
that's... something...
I feel real old now, thanks for that
yea 2015 was a long time ago
2015 was the last year of my childhood too, god I feel old
I think your comment should be categorized as hate speech. Because I hated it 😂😭
THIS LAPTOP.
HOLY SHIT.
This was the first computer I ever owned for myself! It was just powerful enough to run Roblox and a Skype call simultaneously!
fr, my hp 15 (is larger and black, uses a hdd storage but has same ram and cpu) could do that in windows 7 tho, fun times
NO THIS LAPTOP HOLY FUCKIN,
Lol running 2 of anything on this laptop is like kicking it in the balls
dude literally
@@WalrusStu because Roblox used to be quite un-intensive game to run, now even GTX 1060s struggle to run it lmao
I own one of these HP streams, except is called the HP Stream 11 ✨Pro✨, what makes it so pro? Nothing, it’s got the exact same specs as any other HP stream 11 but it comes in black
Once you go black... You're a 💫pro🌞
It's actually a pro laptop for kindergarten and elementary school students
And BTW lowest tier HP Chromebook today maintained the same chassis used in HP Stream
LOL
Someone give me hp stream when I asked for hp charger but it must be later model because mine got a micro SD slot instead of full SD card
saying hp and worst/trash in the same sentence is like saying hot fire or liquid water
HP laptops are pretty crap, especially the cheaper ones. But their PCs are pretty good.
Sad thing is they didn't used to be. Now they suffer from ever lasting hinge issues, even their expensive models.
Nah hp trash
Yeah except in this video the Mac fared worse.
Still using an HP Laptop, they do make a lot of crap for too much money, but the Laptop works fine.
the MacBook may have defected processor caused by Apple’s “literally no” heatsink
Should I add a heatsink to my 2013 MacBook pro?
@@anthonypimentel7218maybe just maybe
In his MacBook video he mentions that sound doesn't work, keys had to be cleaned, and that it was liquid damaged.
@@Bolt451 I'm seriously considering it
If you have a limited budget, it's better to buy a good, but used product. You can also save some money to buy a more expensive but better quality item. Another option is to take a good product in installments and pay it off over time.
i agree
I agree. I bought a $650 laptop that have RTX 3070, 64GB of RAM, Mechanical keyboard, and 2TB SSD from Yahoo Auction. If I didn’t met Saito Asuka the Nogizaka46 girls, I wouldn’t have seen that cute Mouse Commercial and I wouldn’t have known about Mouse G-Tune H5 laptop.
I worked at Walmart in the electronics department when these were new and I always thought they looked really cool aesthetically but resented the fact that they couldn't be upgraded at all. We sold a few of them, mostly to college students with cheap parents. The pink/purple ones were more popular than the blue ones. :P
Even at the upper levels you don't really see bold colors like this anymore. :(
nah i avoid that area becuase of the salesman but i dont know how people get those potato powered laptops if we can even consider it a laptop
Unless you are in UK or EU. Maybe Canada? Just not US or Australia. Maybe Japan has them?
I worked at a Best Buy (Geek Squad in-store if you're wondering) and I always avoided recommending all-in-ones for this reason and that basically any physical damage was a total loss because the cost to repair could just buy a new one. If someone just needed a one-piece desktop thing, I'd just recommend them a larger laptop (like 17" I never considered those portable in the sense of using it on the go, more as a desktop that could be easily moved) and an external mouse. All the clean setup of an AIO, it has a built-in UPS, in a lot of cases the same money got a bump in spec, and they may not be completely repairable, but at least there's a chance you wouldn't exceed the cost of a new one if something went wrong.
@ lol i went to a Best Buy and i told them i had a 3rd party install a new screen (im stupid I shouldn’t of said that)
@@ProtoV33MK1Bastard! You fucking ignored my comment!
Say what you want about Edge, but it was in no way worse than IE, so forcing it on Win 7 and 8 machines is the one time Microsoft didn't actually make things worse.
yeah it’s actually better with memory than chrome and got more updates after chrome lost support on windows 7 if im remembering correctly
@@togoxo Chrome and Edge lost support on Windows 7 at the same time, since Edge uses Chromium (which also Chrome uses).
But yes, Edge was a nice improvement over I.E.
Problem was it was super slow and you couldn't uninstall it. People should have still been given the option to delete it, and I think that's why many hated it. Also the fact it is the default for Windows search, even if you set another browser as the default.
@@LoganT547 I don't remember Edge being that slow, but still, not slower than IE :P As for being allowed to uninstall it, if they allowed that you could easily end up in a situation where you have no browser on the computer, so I can understand that. They have no excuse for Windows search :P
edge is very different from IE i use edge as my main browser.
I got one of these new for Christmas back in the day and I hated it.
sorry for your loss
@@Janethedoodoobrainlol at least you didn't get a Chromebook
did they exist back then? @@trabant601e
@@trabant601envm they did exist in 2015,i had just opened the vid😭😭
didnt know that hp laptop was from 2015*
2:37 dank pods reference I like that
HAITCH PEA
MATE I FOUND IT AT CASHIES
@@christianblackwood7050 WHERE YOU CAN FIND YOUR DREAMS
The HP Stream have a identical twin named HP 11. The only major difference is that the HP 11 didn't use eMMC for the storage and instead use a 500GB hard drive so you can replace it with a SATA SSD. It also only available in black.
I replaced mine with an SSD and it's slightly more bearable for web browsing and typing. As soon as my college tasks require me to do some video production assignment, I dumped this laptop ASAP
did that also come with only 2gb of ram?
as much shit as we give mechanical hard drives these days, I’d rather use one as my only drive any day of the week over eMMC… at least the hard drive is replaceable and generally gives you a usable amount of storage from the getgo.
You could probably fit 11 guts into a Stream body without much modification.
@@nahventure3873 Yes. It's basically HP Stream just with a SATA port
It’s like the biggest companies make the worst crap
It's like the biggest companies produce a wide range of products for every segment of the market. That's often how they become the biggest. Not everyone wants the same things from their computer, or has the same expectations. It's not HP's fault if the product you buy isn't suitable for the tasks you want it to do... they almost certainly manufacture a product that will, but they rightfully assume you have the intelligence to know what to buy.
@@another3997the comment text is a reference to dankpods (if I remember correctly)
@@another3997Chill out man it's a fucking joke, I can't believe you seriously feel the need to go full keyboard warrior with every comment. Go outside for fucks sake
understand this: its a horrible laptop though its only like $100 dollars for a reason its a budget laptop if you have a high end hp laptop like me you will understand that not everything hp makes it crap
I used to work in a computer store and would suffer PTSD from trying to dissuade unsuspecting customers from buying a HP Stream. The Streams only ever sold because they were often well below the £200 mark, and with good reason, these machines skimped out on nearly every part. It might be fine for a young kid but I couldn't possibly imagine anyone ever wanting to use one of these machines for their intended purpose otherwise.
Literally same thing I'm doing but with crappy Lazer Android tablets
@@frokfrdkcan you archive the recovery factory partition for the people who want to have a restored laptop.
OH MY GOD. i was NOT expecting to see one of my childhood laptops in my recommended today. I git one for Christmas back in the day and i LOVED it, as i only used it for browsing(i was like 10). Passed it down to my little sister and she barely uses it because its a piece of junk. Ah well
Your mac neds a new motherboard. That's not usually a fixable fault, can't remember if it's a ram or cpu fault, but it's one of the 2
I hope that's not your PROFESSIONAL opinion, because without a full diagnosis, you can't know for sure what is wrong with it. Apple might replace the M/B because it's easier and cheaper for them. But even if it were one of those two, RAM and CPUs can be replaced by someone with decent soldering skills and the right tools. A lot of electronics repair services do such things on a regular basis.
@@another3997 dude, chill, this macBook is a very expensive landfill material, they are not serviceable at all, complete clusterfuck that should not be forgotten just because it's a very good example of how you should not design a laptop
@@another3997since when do Apple fanboys need facts or proof to simp for Steve Jobs and co? 😂
@@another3997 replacing a defective soldered CPU is not something a lot of repair services do regularly.
@@another3997 He mentions in the MacBook video that it was liquid damaged, the keys originally didn't work and had to be cleaned, and sound was damaged too. He really should have mentioned that in this video too.
i remember hyper fixating on this series of laptops in general
thank god i got a used thinkpad that died 2 months later in january 2014
o7
This is hilarious because I built a custom mini ITX workstation PC using an Atom-based HP Stream 11 with a dead screen. I proceeded to upgrade basically everything you can upgrade without soldering, such as gigabit ethernet, headers for ATX power and USB, PCI Express for a GPU (Quadro K620 was the choice for me), a new CPU cooling solution with an RGB fan, and more ;)
I really should finish up that script and make that video happen. I have... words, to say about the HP Stream 11 and the trend it and the MacBook Air kicked off that I do not appreciate today.
Fun video dude!
I worked in a repair shop in 2016. I saw so many people asking to upgrade the eMMC storage on the Stream, only for me to disappoint them and try to explain to the best of my ability what "soldered on" means
Soldered on means exactly that, and solder can be melted and removed. New parts can be soldered on. If your company's policy was to not undertake such upgrades, whether through lack of time, equipment, skill or just a general unwillingness, doesn't mean that it cannot be done. Is it economical for the customer? Perhaps not, that's just down to what someone charges for their services. But soldered on doesn't mean unfixable.
Nerd @@another3997
@@another3997Why would you defend such a terrible practice? Sure, soldered in does not mean it is literally impossible to repair, but no one would actually pay for the upgrade as the labour + sourcing compatible parts is simply not worth most repair shops' time or effort. And these companies know that by doing this they inconvenience the customer, therefore they need to buy a higher-end model to get a basic feature.
Dankpods and Bingus meets GHG vibes in this channel (like all of the channels).
yah
Man, your tone of voice, accent and the way you speak is so adorable
hes so cute ong
Can't believe the Store's Live Tile is still flipping on that install of 8.1
I LOVE the colour. I could unironically purchase something similar nowadays
the reason edge seemed to be using so little memory is because it was split into several processes running simultaneously. combined, they were probably using hundreds of megabytes.
Chrome and every other Chromium-based browser do that as well
Hp stands for hinge problems 😂
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the greatest technician that ever lived
Windows 8.1 was actually the second "success" attempt to get people into Windows 8. It was actually not that bad, and I actually liked it the most out of all NT Windows. I still remembered the first Developer Preview and I LOVED it. It did have start button in the prototype before they eventually removed it in Windows 8 (and brought it back in 8.1). It's the time Microsoft realised that most people were still using Windows without a touch screen and they added missing desktop features back to the 8.1.
feels like 2015 marked the beginning of the end of laptop manufacturers actually caring about their consumer base
Nah it started in the late 2000's early 2010 when they started building laptops like cheap chinese android tabletd
umm no that started back in like 2009 with netbooks and those horrible compaq/hp laptops that would randomly overheat and die lmao. one of my cousins gave me her compaq CQ40 and I fixed it "reballing" the motherboard with a very ghetto solution (wrapped the board in aluminum foil, then placed a soldering iron a few centimeters above the CPU/GPU area) and it surprisingly worked
my 2016 higher end hp is worse than one featured in this video because dreaded AMD, AMD was almost bankrupt because they were so bad the CPU in this laptop is at least twice as good as a four core a12 which is equivalent to a 2008 dual core core two duo
Yeah but it’s HP so this is just typical
@@redstone0234 Because of Obama
the HP stream 11 is perfect as a writing laptop and if you need a raspberry pi type single application computer that needs a keyboard and mouse.
they're pretty good linux machines for that purpose.
in fact I refuse to put windows on mine because running windows is nearly impossible now due to how slow this machine truly is.
the space bar on yours I think it broken, because i don't have that problem on mine
also the battery life is excellent, I can still get 6 hours on mine when pushing it to the limits (which isn't hard to do) but y'know you could just open vim and start writing a paper and still be quite happy as a distraction-free writing laptop.
I did a bunch of writing on a slightly older nugget, the MSI Wind U100 and for low spec machines like this Linux is really a game changer, it came with Windows 7 Starter, I replaced it with MacOS Snow Leopard, that was fine to use but terrible to maintain with every new Apple patch requiring hacks, but Linux is still usable on that machine to this day.
When I was in high school, I bought a Toshiba laptop with a Celeron n2830, for $350, at Walmart with all my birthday money. It was surprisingly decent. The CPU was slightly slower than the HP stream (boost speeds are lower) but It had a 500gb HDD, 4 gb RAM- which was upgradable with access to one DIMM slot. It also had a DVD drive and a touchscreen, which was great for Windows 8. I loved that laptop. I did video editing in Movie Maker, ran virtual machines, played Minecraft and even flight simulator (FSX). I used it well into college. The screen is dying now, but with linux and an SSD, its still usable, although since I built my first gaming PC I have had little use for it. But man I pushed that little CPU to the absolute limits as a budding teenage tech nerd.
try minecraft 1.8.9 its way older and runs better on older computers like a pentium 4
anything up to 1.12 performs well
1.13+ runs like garbage by comparison
@@zUltra3DNot entirely true.
1.8.9 runs better than 1.12 on old things cause it doesn't use as much ram.
I'd say 1.7.10. It runs way better than 1.8.9
On my old 2008 pc, when 1.8 released I relied on optifine and low settings to get a constistant 30 fps. Whereas on 1.7.10 I didn't need optifine. I threw the 2008 pc away when I got a decent midrange 1080p-1440p gaming pc back in 2017 for christmas.
@@snowythecolaaddict But 1.8 is the oldest still 'supported' version.
As in you can play on most multi version servers.
Just run 1.0.0 its still minecraft
I just installed Windows 10 LTSC on one of these for my grandpa a few weeks ago. It actually does run that version well enough for what he wanted, which was an old 2011 music writing program that crashed on his Mac. I actually also like the color a lot, and the build quality was pretty decent compared to some other laptops (but I hate having some of the screws under the rubber feet). The space bar even worked. I did get that same CMOS error, though.
One thing that was really annoying was that it was missing the battery. I'm not sure if it came that way or what because it was my grandma's, and she had it sitting in her closet for years, and she always used it plugged in before that. She said she's never taken it in for repairs, and I've never modified it before, so I'm not sure how that happened.
I actually live next to the HP Campus in Oregon. Learned to drive there and everything. They allowed me to use their parking lot! Gotta love HP
i kinda dig the heatch pea's blue color tho..
17:55 You made me laugh with that joke, well done
I got one of these for school (it was practically a netbook anyway), it was passable on Windows 8, but I remember my dad upgraded the OS to WIn10 one night and it was atrociously slow and practically filled the tiny flash memory this thing has got.
The internal storage on Macbook is suddenly died. I've had a 2016 one with the same problem. You can easily check this by trying to boot from any bootable flash drive. Also, SSD is unreplaceable and soldered to a main board on these models, so replacing the main board is the only option to fix it.
A friend of mine had one of these and I had a similar one. The built in storage was what killed it. Windows 10 got bigger than 32GB in a year or so, they should have given it 128GB or at least 64GB. But I think otherwise it was fine for 2015.
I had an N2840 in an Aspire ES1-411.
Socketed ram in those.
Do note that any Silvermont derived SoC before April 2017 has a known LPC clock bug that can cause boot problems and corruption. Linux is additionally affected by power state bugs that cause lockups.
USB/SD controllers are affected by the LPC clock bug as well.
This was found to extend into further derivatives of the architecture.
Mine killed 2 drives before I had enough of it
bro is making fun of my childhood laptop
Why was the called “Stream” anyway? It can’t stream anything 😭
Maybe because you can hardly store anything on its drive once you've installed the OS and a few applications.
It was found thrown in a water stream
@@emadjawarneh good one 🤣🤣
Hate to brrak it to you, but a macbook is as close to being a book as any other laptop.
@gitnjur is that a good thing? 🤨
Wow, first the HP Stream 7 tablet and now this crappy thinline laptop
Tbh it was not that bad for a cheap consumer grade laptop. I had one in the family and it was very abused but it still kept on going,last time it was used in 2022 when it was dropped and the screen got cracked. Mine ran 10 too but it became a pain in the ass to run it on those specs after the 2019 update. It runs ok with Tiny10 or Linux tho
It was bad.
Soldered RAM, CPU, even soldered, non-expandable storage.
And a Celeron with 2GB RAM, Intel HD and eMMC storage is a combo made in the deepest depths of hell, probably designed for the third hokage.
@@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung Yeah but it was 150$ brand new or at least that's how much i paid for it. For a new device it was acceptable. I don't think 150$ new laptops even exist today anymre
I got my hands on a similarly specced Chromebook that had the EMMC physically drilled out by a school to “wipe” its data… I managed to get it to boot off of an SD card after flashing the bios by clipping directly onto the chip and using Linux tools on another device just to even allow that…
It runs Debian kinda ok tbh, but yeah similar specs and it’s barely useable today.
@@The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung Soldered RAM and CPU does not mean a bad machine. Most modern ultrabooks are like that today, and some (especially MacBooks and Yogas) will last a like long time for most users.
Love your style, bro. Keep it up.
I remember owning this laptop when I was in middle school and trying EVERYTHING to make it run better to play roblox with my friends, deleted the texture stores, turned every USB I owned into a ReadyBoost machine for ram, got the biggest SD card I could find solely to play one or two games on the laptop, it truly was a struggle 😭😭
I have the 2017 version of that 12inch Macbook. Loved that little guy. My mom is still using it to this day without issue. Really hope Apple can revive that form factor (without the butterfly keyboard) and add in cellular connectivity. It’s gonna be the ultimate travel laptop
I have a HP Stream 13 on my desk with me right now. It has 4 GB of ram and 32GB of storage but came with Windows 10. I only bought this computer because I needed one immediately, like on the spot, because my other computer died and this one was the cheapest on sale in the store at the time. Mind you I had 30 minutes to walk up 5 floors (quicker than waiting for the lifts), buy a laptop, walk back down and catch a bus to work, so zero thought was put into this purchase. Anyway, long story short, I ended up running Linux Mint from an external 2TB Hard drive. However, recently I installed a very light distro internally and use it essentially like a Chromebook, eg Google docs, Microsoft 365, Photopea, email, social media and Zoom etc. I'm still using it and it still works well enough for what it is.
I had this laptop. I smashed it because it kept making me mad. I really hated it so much. Glad I got rid of it
This laptop sells today for a higher, if not almost same price as a used 2013 MacBook Pro.
The Retina MacBook Got Kicked Out Of Apple's macOS Support Months After Microsoft Kicked Windows 7, 8, And 8.1 Out Of Applications Support!
Its blue da ba bee
Make an HP Stream parody! The HP Stream gets little to no attention.
This was my first laptop when I was younger. Introduced me to Minecraft and steam. So bad but so good!
I modified the space bar stabilizer on my school Stream so my right thumb would trigger the button properly.
That thumbnail literally made me remember the annoying Dell lollipop ad from around the same time frame. 😂
Lollipop lollipop oh oh lollipop, lollipop "pop". 😂
I used to have a PC like this (not exactly the same PC though) that had specs similar to this one, like same CPU and RAM and everything. If you bump up the ram to 4-8 Gb and swap the HDD (if it has one, mine did) for an SSD, it's actually a fairly decent browsing machine. It was also able to do a lot of low powered gaming. While this PC in the video is likely un-upgradable, the specs were not the worst thing in the world.
Games I used to play on it were World of Warcraft 3.5.5a (ran at 60FPS with a preset other than low, dunno what I used exactly), Stardew, Minecraft, etc. Nothing too demanding, but it worked well if you respected it's limitations.
It's currently living out the remainder of it's life as a car diagnostic laptop.
That Stream 11 was a decent laptop under the right circumstances. My wife used it only for work from home using Citrix Workspace, and note taking for school. She needed to just do those tasks and carry it around in her bag on the subway. So it was just enough power and software compatibility coupled with portability. It still works today though it’s no longer in use. Also, we didn’t encounter the spacebar issue and found the keyboard to be surprisingly good.
Lastly, I think your MacBook is dying.
I have a Stream 14, originally bought for my elderly aunt. The touchpad was too temperamental - having to shut it down to reset the hardware was too much for her. It has 4GB of RAM, so will run Win10 Home, but the 32GB eMMC means that fresh Windows releases are a serious pain, even after a proper debloat. There's also a load of space inside, but no connectors to add any upgrades.
However the battery is still great - it happily plays pre-recorded 1080 videos (at 768) for 4 hours on a charge.
when you run low on memory with windows 11 lots of pages and apps get paused or put into efficiency mode. the 400mb sidebar thing with the widgets just dont get launched and into memory if its not being used. the amount of web pages and the reliance on fast ssd storage does make it almost impossible to run with an hdd or an emmc but ssds are cheap enough now. those new cheap windows 11 laptops you showed actually run just as fine if not better than the hp stream did when it was new. there oneof those terrible laptops (an hp one even) at my schools that is there to just view photos and powerpoints on a projector for the conference thing and it works perfectly fine its actually not even laggy. no one buying these laptops need or want more out of them.
I'd bet that the 21.7 GB C:\ is because of a 10 GB hidden recovery partition.
whats poppin man im early love you
Even to this day I've always felt sad over Alan Rickman's death. Now that I see his son is doing great though, I do feel much better.
HP stream 11 is probably one of the last "netbooks", a sub-genre of PCs I adored. I've had my eye on the hp recently as a "remote streaming" device for my main editing rig. It's probably going to be more decent running lightweight Linux. Also considered the 12 inch mac, but that's still pretty expensive second hand.
Instead I got an 11 inch macbook air 2015. Much cheaper, been using it constantly for writing and remote editing (with BetterDisplay app installed) and streaming games. Using a tiny WiFi dongle to bypass the crappy in built card, and a USB C to Magsafe 2 so I can use any smaller 65w charger.
The screen is low res, but usable, with 1080p remote desktop streaming slightly pixellated. MacOS's lid sleep function is extremely convenient, and it's built like a tank - the bezels also help as a buffer to protect the LCD from corner drops.
Also, I'm looking forward to your channel growing much bigger, and the inevitable channel name rebrand when it happens.
Man I had this machine lmao, my first laptop (I was 13 or 14 back then) and it was amazing lol. I remember taking it to school once and ended up forgetting it in class and next day it was gone, the sheer terror I had because my parents were going to find out. They did, it went better than what I expected but they never bought me a laptop again until this year lmao
What's the background synthwave song played around 12 minutes? I feel like I've heard it before but can't put my finger on it.
In Canada, there was a 300$ wifi model or a 350$ wifi+LTE model that came with a LIFETIME of 100mb of internet per month on the Rogers network
i ate my Grapes which i've left in the fridge for 3 hours to become extra cold while watching your video ( and i searched for it )... consider this your highest compliment blue_boi !
It has to be illegal for you to be *this* underrated
14:50 my school computer last year came with a spacebar where the metal wire inside was misplaced in manufacturing. Made it the whole year with it.
Wake up babe, frokfrdk just uploaded!
I found out that these HP laptops (at least the cheap ones from the era) are auto-configured to drop the display refresh rate from 60 Hz on mains power to something abysmal-either 35 or 40 Hz-on battery power.
The blue one remembers me about Austin evans Video. And for some reason the boson pc series. There was also the 13" version.
These things must have sold like crazy around here in Oklahoma in 2015. There's still people trying to sell them for $150-$200 on Facebook Marketplace. It's insane. I mean, I might buy one for $20 just to play around with and give to my grandson when he's old enough to not try to eat it. But for my $150 in 2015 I got one step above this, a quad core Celeron Acer Aspire. 14 inches, full 1920x1080 screen, plays GTA San Andreas like a boss, but nothing newer.
Take it somewhere with fantastic lighting like at a concert or a nightclub and photograph it well. When I had mentioned that I bought what I thought was the proper class of SD card storage for this device that was quite a few years ago, and I would consider buying a much higher storage capacityand practicing how to boot from that SD card and using the bios and things like that so I’m still not getting rid of mine.
i had the touchscreen model of the stream back when i was 9 in 2016. the thing had 20 gigs of storage, and i had to connect a external drive to it 24/7 and I would play minecraft story mode at like 20 fps. good times.
I remember kicking myself back in 2015 for missing a flash sale to buy one for 100 bucks. I just wanted something to stream TV shows in my living room at the time. Luckily I learned about Chromecast a little later which worked out.
Got this for my birthday in 2016, first laptop I owned. Lasted me a year before I had to get a new one.
DUDE I HAD THIS EXACT LAPTOP WHEN IT CAME OUT!! i might eventually buy this for the aesthetic and just for the memories too.
I was obsessed with this laptop 6 years ago when I was a kid. It was like our school chromebooks, but prettier and with more control over the OS
I remember receiving one as a gift and was so clueless
Unfortunatly still have it and still works.
Wait, the "lol one port" Macbook came out just about 10 years ago???
Daaaamn I feel old now. Before we know it there'll be 10 year retrospectives on the touchbar Macbooks (like how retrospectives and mod videos on the trashcan Mac Pro are popping up).
Honestly I love the butterfly keyboard. I have a MBP from 2016 and that's the sole reason I haven't upgraded yet
I had this same laptop and actually was able to source an LG IPS display and upgrade it. It was a perfectly usable laptop for the price point. A great "upstairs laptop" for when you didnt want to do something on your phone.
had it for a few years. solid build quality. amazing battery life. had lightweight linux on it so it ran pretty good.
I'm still using Windows 8.1 here in 2024 because of its stability. From my experiences its actually more stable than 7 and runs great on mostly any hardware. And its not like I have a computer that can't run 10/11, I just choose to stick to 8.1. Although I am considering dual booting 10 LTSB due to some games and a few programs not working with 7/8.1 anymore. My system is a Lenovo ThinkStation P920 with dual Xeon 6144 8c16t processors (16c32t total), 256 GB of RAM, and a GTX 1080, so its plenty to run 10, especially debloated LTSB.
You're an impostor. Trash videos with little to no views (depending on video subject). I'm telling the REAL Bill Clinton if I had his phone number.
the color is so cute. also is it the default wallpaper with those snowy mountains? I find that wallpaper adorable and it fits the color scheme so well. anywhere to download it?
Hi, I made that wallpaper it's an older one from a few years ago - frokfrdk.com/projects/purple-valley/
I thought I like this video already. I’m checking to see if I have the same model I bought mine in 2018. I bought mine at a Best Buy and it was the floor model and it was simply sold to me with the discretion of the floor staff and it was as is without packaging or manual just power supply, but I bought it because I am nearsighted, and I wanted to be able to examine the settings very closely. I wanted to understand its bios and limits of its storage problems and the problems that would occur from it and also how to reduce the size of Windows 10 I went to Staples and printed a PDF of the manual and experimented with the fonts for readability. At the time of writing this, it is late 2024 and I am still considering buying another laptop in the HP stream series mainly due to its stylish shell and possibly opening up the inside, changing the hardware and keeping the shell if that’s at all possible.This was all before I knew about the framework hardware mentioned in Linus tech tips, and the upcoming possibility of Tesla offering laptops I will be reading more of the comments in this video.
Mine was bought in 2018
Mine was bought in 2018 and I went back to Best Buy and bought a specific class of I think 64 gigs of storage on an SD card or whatever the modern version of SD cards were at the time to try to compensate for the sad amount of storage. there’s an auto detailing place in town that does vinyl wraps, and I was going to show them the appeal of this plastic shell of this particular laptop, even though I know somewhere online there’s an offer market provider that makes a stylish color wraps for iPads. I just thought there would be something better for all those boring gray laptops that we are supposed to buyand I thought they could make a custom wrap for this or from this to put on something that’s better hardware. I hope I make friends in this group.
that laptop got me through a good chunk of high school. When I brought it it came with windows 10 which ran incredibly poorly (there wasn't even enough storage to update windows), but thankfully it ran Linux perfectly.
I see a LOT of hate for HP and i get it, really do, but hear me out. My first ever "personal" computer was (is) a HP 640 g1 probook. It was a used machine but was cheap. It was 2018 i believe and this laptop has 4th gen hardware. NOW, me being a gamer wanted to "game". I played, GTA V, GTA IV, far cry 3 & 4, AC 4, COD MW&MW2&BO. So basically i have the best of my memories on this device. I had to do so much tweaking of .ini files and uninstalling bloatware. And when the games would run on 30fps it was so rewarding. I could NEVER have felt the joy if i had a good spec pc back then. That tweaking and modifying stuff got me into computers and now that i look back those were some amazing days. Because of my experiments on that machine i actually found ways to make crappy machines work better and its a whole experience. I still own my 640 probook with the ssd i bought with it in 2018 and it works just as it used to. Never replaced anything other than the battery. I still use it for emulating games and programming even though i do have a good pc. Its just the amount of emotions that are attached to that device that makes me never want to loose it. I think hp did an amazing job by making a device for every price range. From chromebooks to spectures and omens.
I remember having one of these for my freshman year of highschool when this released. I remember playing asphalt 8 on it a lot and even recorded the game too. It was also able to handle video editing just fine. Too bad i borked it when i installed windows 10
Both my sister and I have owned the 12" retna since 2015 and I can say that it's a really good laptop, but ahead of its time. In reality it should have launched with the M1 and it really would have been far more viable. Too bad ARM were not introduced earlier, or perhaps RISC-V
I still have my AMD EEE PC from 2011 and with an 8GB of RAM upgrade along with an SSD? Runs Debian just fine, perfectly usable as a web browser and watching 720P YT. I kept win 7 in a dual boot just for going back and playing some older Windows games along with nostalgia but even after 13 years it is still decent for the web.
I remember everyone in my high school having these because of how cheap they were, kind of nostalgic looking back no matter how much they sucked lol
1:23 What happened!? When looking for a laptop today, I have to go around scattering around to see if any good laptop has those ports, the most I get is a mini SD card port, 1 usb port, and like 3 F***ing USB-C, It's sad
i remember in 2015 actually really wanting one cause my standards were really low, i was a kid, and they were cheap, but i liked the colors and I didn’t have a pc at the time so they seemed intresting
I still like much of the IDEA of the MacBook - a really small premium laptop designed around low TDP chips. The one port was a statement that it was a mostly wireless machine. But the Intel chips stunk, you needed a dongle to back it up since most people do not have a wireless backup solution (if they have a backup solution at all), and the keyboard was terrible. More understandable in such a package than reusing it in larger laptops, but it was still bad. I don't think Apple will go back to this well, because they seem to see the iPad as its replacement and people seem to like big screens. But I do think an 11" MacBook Air with an Apple M chip would be a nice little machine.
I would love something that size with the more efficient M-series of chips. I personally loved my butterfly keyboard, and its still the fastest keyboard I've ever typed on, but reliability is the reason I ended up getting rid of it. Honestly the one USB-C port was a deal-breaker when it came out, but now I wouldn't mind it too much, would rather two but could get by.
I swear my mom had a laptop like that years ago. The only thing I remember it being useful for was for playing Jetpack Joyride. That was the most fun I had on it. It was before I knew more about computers. It had Windows 8 which I hated. It didn't have the traditional desktop layout. I thought I had ruined something because I didn't know how to go back. So I accepted it.
nice xps reference, I just got an OLED one used with an 11th gen i9 and 3050 ti in white on ebay for $800!
Ah man, my sister left this exact laptop behind. Honestly, throwing an older version of a Linux distro made it come back to life!
I had this laptop and I grew up with it in 2015. I did NOT know how I grew up playing roblox and making youtube videos on that thing, a few years ago I tried to get it back working and it was the slowest machine i've ever handled. Lets just say i'm using it for parts now
Also in windows 8.1 if you have a touchpad you can swipe from the right side of it and have the charms bar. (I also have the same specs on the 14 inch version)
The left side gesture kept bugging me while filming this
@@frokfrdk I'm still trying to use the same specs except an SSD today :'(