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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Stream 11 problems are very frustrating. That’s why you need this breakdown of issues and fixes to address them. Without it, you may have to send your Windows 10 laptop back to HP for service. HP ...

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 ...

The latest in a long line of dirt-cheap HP laptops, the specific HP Stream 14 model we tested (14-dq0010nr) features 4GB of RAM, 64GB of eMMC flash storage, Intel UHD 600 Graphics as part of the CPU, ...