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Hewlett-Packard is stretching the limits of design with the announcement today of the colorful and thin HP Stream series of Windows laptops and tablets. Above: HP Stream laptops Targeted for the ...

What's electric blue, has an island style keyboard and costs just $199? The HP Stream 11, of course. We have to hand it to HP, in a world of look-alike laptops and cheesy-shiny plastic netbooks, the ...

I just got finished rounding up the best Chromebooks out there, but there’s more to the world of dirt-cheap computing than Google’s browser-machines. The HP Stream is a $200 full-Windows laptop, and ...

Equipped with an Intel Celeron processor and a cramped 11.6-inch display, the venerable HP Stream 11, refreshed several times in the course of its life, is one of the most bare-bones Windows laptops ...

Microsoft COO Kevin Turner first held up the as-yet-unannounced HP Stream laptop at the Windows Partners Conference last July, boasting that it would cost just $199. The press instantly dubbed the ...

HP’s Stream Mini and Pavilion Mini desktops are for everyone who was excited about Intel’s NUC until they saw the price. While we definitely like the NUC and think it’s a good value for what you get, ...

Back in the ’90s, you could buy a bargain-brand Gateway or eMachines PC for about $400. They were everywhere. Everybody’s grandma got in on the action. They were also, objectively, pretty crappy ...

I meant it when I said the Stream 11 looks like a netbook: It's a small, fanless machine, weighing 2.74 pounds, with a plain plastic shell. But damn if it isn't one of the more stylish netbooks I've ...

The system comes in a bright blue, which HP calls Horizon Blue, with a dark-blue to light-cyan gradient on the keyboard deck. At 0.77 by 13.25 by 9 inches (HWD), it'll fit perfectly on an airline tray ...

One of the biggest advantages Microsoft's Windows platform has over Apple’s Mac operating system is its seemingly limitless choices. Windows laptops come in all different colors, shapes, sizes, and ...