5 Reasons to Buy a $188 Laptop #Helpful Post

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