5 Reasons to Buy a $188 Laptop

For less than $200 the HP Stream 14 is a surprisingly decent budget laptop on the cheap.

[krish.]

I'm not even joking my sister has that exact laptop in light blue, she only uses it to play roblox.

[thealiens]

*there's a 5 minute ad that I can't skip for some reason*

[Zappiestcow]

There's actually only 1 reason... it's cheap.

[LieutenantSneer]

*DO NOT BUY A LAPTOP WITH ONLY 32GB STORAGE!* I have worked on multiple laptops like this and they run out of space from just downloading Windows Updates. There is no way to avoid this, even if you use a micro SD for extra storage. There is no way to swap out the hard drive and you are stuck with 32GB forever.

[mdibound]

$188 can get you a refurb 12.5" Thinkpad X220 w/ a core i5, 8GB of RAM and 128GB SSD.

[dubssy]

DO NOT LISTEN TO HIM!!!! THEY HAVE THESE AT MUY SCHOOL AND THEY CANT HAVE MORE THAN 2 APPLICATIONS OPEN AT

[dexterjsullen]

1 reason NOT to buy a 188$ laptop

*DON'T HAVE 188$ TO SPEND*

[beargvn]

This is the laptop my school sent me. It barely runs. The screen is nearly bendable. I treat it kindly and had dead pixels within 3 months. It can barely run YouTube. But because they have it hard locked on Windows 7 it can run chrome. It lives for 3 days on normal usage (3-4 hours of school work). The Bluetooth doesn’t work at all. It’s not worth the cheap price.

[amanasd]

Yeah I don't buy it, this thing will probably chug even doing the bare minimum.

[xyon]

*I have a 1GB RAM netbook* its performance is horrible but it's all I have.

[BenKuyt]

Do not buy this laptop. I work one these regularly. They are absolutely horrible. Spend more on the thing you are going to use on a regular basis, please. Don't get this, even for a student or a child.

[junaidjamshed]

*5 reasons why Austin Evan's exists in 2018*

[Swipeclipz]

I've had this for one year and my fan is broken and making a loud noise. Everyone in class stares at me. Vote this up so HP offers me a new laptop

[scorpionGaming-bltu]

its worth spending an extra 100-150 dollars to get an i3, hd screen, 4gb ram, 128gb sdd...

[atem]

Wow Youtube. A 5 minute unskippable add. Wow.

[alinbilsel]

We have those computers at my school. They suck.

[CyborgForgael]

What kills it for me is that low memory. Only 4 GB is pitiful. That low eMMC storage doesn't help it much, either. Only 32 GB? Just my pictures folder would take up a good chunk of that.

[TheYordinator]

Sickkk been looking at getting my girlfriend a new laptop for a while, obviously on a budget 😂

[hawkeyes]

lol we never take austin serious, his tech advice is copy and paste, and reading the labels from best buy xD

[pxl-cube]

maybe it would run better with some linux spec linux distro installed instead of windows