HP Stream Laptop PC 11.6" Intel N4000 4GB DDR4 SDRAM 32GB eMMC Includes Office 365 Personal for One Year

I was hoping that this machine would behave well under Linux, and so far, it has. Everything works. Sound, GPU, Wifi, battery detection, suspend. Its exactly what I needed. A simple, small, light, long battery life laptop to do software development on at a Dennys without lugging around my very heavy Thinkpad and unplugging it from everything. Keyboard does not have a lot of travel or feedback, but strangely, its actually a LOT better than most cheap laptops. Touch typists will like this machine, as long as they arent mechanical keyboard cultists. I was wary of HP machines in recent years as I had heard they had gotten quite bad, but this has been a surprisingly good experience so far. Not only is secure boot easily disabled and doesnt require an admin password (looking at you, Acer), but it also provides legacy/CSM BIOS emulation support, in case UEFI isnt your thing. eMMC storage speed is phenominal, even if theres only 32GB of space. Im using a heavily compressed Btrfs partition for my root filesystem, so I can manage. This machine exceeded my expectations. Its not perfect, the build quality, while better than I expected, still leaves a bit to be desired. It seems to attract crumbs and grime like a magnet, which is annoying, and the touchpad is NOT particularly sensitive, which gets annoying quickly. You need more pressure than you should to get its attention so you can move the cursor. HP, if youre reading this, youve done well. A slight thing that you did in one previous machine that you should do again: allow booting from microSD. Thats a very useful feature.

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Had to return first unit. Space bar would often not register a keystroke. Amazon quickly sent a replacement. Basic computer. Needed something cheap to throw in my backpack or browse online while on the couch and this fit the bill. Wish HP offered a 6gb memory version, 4 is just barely enough to run windows and a few browser tabs. Other than that works great.

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I bought this laptop to use for school work which is about all that I needed it for. The laptop is light making it bearable to carry around for class or to work to be able to type up the paper or do research needed. The internet speed is relevant to other laptops as there isnt delay time and waiting for the browser to load. A nice feature was that it came with Microsoft Office for one year which is helpful to the pocket for those that are using this laptop for that reason. I would recommend using a flash drive or external memory device to store any work that you are saving, unless you are using a cloud option. Battery life is relatively good as I can use it all day without it being a problem and it charges pretty quick as well. The overall quality for the price of this laptop makes it worth it.

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