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hey guys doston this is a 188 dollar laptop and I'm about to give you five reasons why you should pick one up 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 a look at the HP stream a couple years ago the original model and it was good but it had a lot of compromises over over the last couple years while keeping that price low they've actually done a fair bit to make it a better laptop recently I did a video on a $200 MacBook that I picked up off of ebay now it was a good system however it is not for the faint of heart now not only is it going to be nearly ten years old but there's no warranty and no guarantee that it's ever going to get updates at least with the HP stream you know that if something goes wrong you can just go yell at HP about it it's really put the 188 dollar price tag into context you can pick up 15 of these HP streams for less than the price of a mid Spectre 15-inch MacBook Pro now obviously the MacBook is going to be a better laptop when you consider it just how much this is able to do for so much less starts to make sense for a lot of people and that brings us to reason number two this is really all that you need sure some people do have specific things they have to do with their laptops but a lot of people rocking a thousand dollar MacBook Air and 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 you know on Facebook wait 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 copy of Windows 10 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 that have been created over the years number three is the hardware and 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 pick the keyboard for example 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 a click enos that does feel pretty nice the tripod also isn't too bad and that follows through with the rest of the chassis sure it's all made of plastic at this price point you shouldn't expect anything else 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 so with a 14 inch 1366 by 768 panel it was never going to be the sharpest thing in the world but what really lets it down is the fact that it is a thoroughly average TN panel color accuracy isn't great the brightness could be better but that being said $188 it is going to be usable reason number four is the performance it exists so $188 you should expect this to be a blistering fast PC and surprise-surprise blistering fast it is not inside you're getting a dual-core Intel Celeron processor 4 gigabytes of RAM as well as a massive 32 gigabytes of flash storage nothing is what I would call snappy but at least it works and a big part of that is because this guy has 4 gigs of RAM unlike earlier versions which only had 2 as you can imagine Windows computers really aren't that happy with only 2 gigabytes of RAM especially with certain apps oh sorry it's cough I don't know what that was the processor is decent enough for basic tasks so because it is so low powered you actually don't need a fan inside the stream which at least does make it completely silence one of the bigger issues is that 32 gigabytes of storage though now yes you can get Windows on 32 gigs of storage but installed more than a couple apps it's going to fill up quickly thankfully though that full size SD card reader actually does come in handy put something like a 128 gig card for about $40 in and you should actually be pretty well set reason number 5 is that it's practical so when you think of a lot of the that will make a good laptop good the HP stream has them I mean some of them at least battery life is a big one so with a 41 watt hour battery while that might not be impressive for a lot of laptops this has such power sipping internals that even when you're completely cranking it at 100% you're going to be getting decent battery life and for normal usage you're looking at around 10 hours you're also getting some surprising features at the price point including 2x2 802 2.11 AC Wi-Fi now yes this is not going to be as reliant on the internet as something like a Chromebook but you still you think about it it's called the HP stream for a reason and most of the time you're going to be online so it's nice that it has solid Wi-Fi the HP stream is definitely not for everyone but I'm continuously impressed with just how much you're able to get for so little so I'm curious what do you guys think about ultra cheap laptops like the stream let me know in the comments below and I will catch you in the next one