We Bought the Cheapest Windows 10 Laptop from Walmart: HP Stream 11 Review

It's 12am and your laptop suddenly decides to die on you when you need it the most. Today we are going to make an "emergency" trip to Walmart to buy the cheapest Windows laptop they have in stock and test the crap out of it. We will put it through several benchmarks, including passmark, 3D mark, and unigine heaven, attempt to play Crysis on it, test usability with Windows 10, and even toss in a hint of Linux testing. Nothing was left out for this review. If you're looking for a comprehensive HP Stream 11 review, this is it.

Our test unit's specs: Intel Celeron N3060, 4GB DDR3L RAM, 32GB emmc storage, 1366x768 display, Intel HD 400 series graphics.

I forgot to mention this during the video, but the Walmart staff were actually very helpful. They asked us if I needed help earlier but I was filming at that time and was not ready to grab the laptop just yet. That staff member went off to do other things so I had to wait for him to come around again. It's really my fault that it took so long to get the laptop.

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[MartinWimpress]

Love the emergency laptop scenario you created 😀 I'm the Ubuntu MATE project lead, thank you for the kind words. Delighted to hear Ubuntu MATE worked well on the HP Stream 👍 As for screen tearing; sorry that's on me. However, screen tearing is fixed in the upcoming Ubuntu MATE 19.10 release 👌

[NikiDaDude]

>32GB EMMC
Oh god I hate those things, just let Windows 10 run on it for a few months and it will accumulate enough updates/cache files to paint itself into a corner, and then you can't even reset it because there isn't enough space.
Try explaining that to someone who doesn't know how to use a computer.

[Lovesthaduckie]

My T60 is faster than that trainwreck of a computer

[spac]

"Get in the car" sounds like the start of a robbery

[mariselojeda]

"Why did we get a purple laptop?"

*the laptop behind the slaughter*

[autismisnotmysuperpower]

These laptops should have an "In case of emergency use only" sticker on them.

[chloedevereaux]

it's 4Gb of 32Gb of eMMC storage! so basically an sd card

[greygoose]

I'd always recomend a $40 Thinkpad T400 from eBay.

[jothain]

Just buy used business class laptop for same price and use what ever you'd like to as your operating system.

[thesmellofbacon]

I got a used laptop from a coworker, $150. I5-6200U, 8Gb ram. installed an SSD for like $30 and use it to play older games like fallout 3

[yanfoo]

+1 for using Linux and showing that Windows is a poor choice on lower-end computers.

[Roman-nuom]

basically a DOA product due to the ridiculously small 32GB eMMC memory. Which is a real bummer since eMMC memory is cheap as hell but you can't swap it for something bigger

[customengravingsbyhuntersh]

I have one of these, really only bought it for use in my arduino projects as a controller but for me it was in clearance for 99 dollars so I cant complain, it does what I need it too and YouTube and Netflix works fine right out of the box 🤷‍♂️ play a 1080p file on it and that also works great. My only complaint was the measly 32gb of storage but I battled that with a 200gb micro sd card that I got from.. you guessed it Walmart! When I need more demanding power I just use my trusty desktop.

[codykamminga]

I have never seen a 170 score on firestrike, that’s incredible

[IMDYT]

I thank that the ps1 is faster than that dang piece of plastic

[invisiblestacker]

Since many students use chromebooks, could you do a duplicate video buying a chromebook at 1am at walmart?

[gracerichey]

this is the laptop i’ve been using for 5 years lmao

[Lovesthaduckie]

I have my T60 with windows 10 LTSC with a 120gb ssd and some system tweaks it runs pretty good despite it being over 13 yrs old

[askhowiknow]

Why does this have a kensington lock port! Who would steal this?
You’d be lucky if someone didn’t leave you another one instead of taking the one you have!

[Siddeo]

One Laptop per Child Laptop costed about 150-200 dollars to manufacture many years ago. And the OS it came with was intended for Kids and had way less features than full desktop Operating Systems. Fast forward to today and one can get a real laptop like HP Stream for 200 dollars ! People should understand that not everyone lives in a developed country. In developing countries, especially under government subsidized programs every dollar of price increase affects the purchase decision. Many Older adults in developing countries may not be that much interested in buying a personal computer.But there are still millions and millions of young people around the world who cannot afford a personal computer because of the price. Computer is like what TV or Radio was decades ago. Even poor people in developing countries need one in their households nowadays.