meet the next generation of cheap laptops

meet the next generation of cheap laptops
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Netbooks were actually a great idea.
When you boil it all the way down, it's simple: build a computer that does all the things an average user needs and doesn’t try to do anything else, and sell it as cheap as possible. The problem was in the execution: netbooks were poorly made, slow, ugly, thick, hard to use, too small, didn’t last long enough, and were just generally a mean thing to force upon anyone you care about.
Windows manufacturers ran away from the netbook after it was attacked on all sides. By tablets, which were longer-lasting and easier to use; by smartphones, which became powerful enough to do most things; and by Chromebooks, which quickly ate up the ultra-cheap laptop with batery like Hp 342661-001 battery, Hp pavilion dv6000 battery, Hp Pavilion dv8000 battery, Hp HSTNN-DB20 battery, Hp 395789-001 battery, Hp 396008-001 battery, Hp Pavilion dv9000 battery, Compaq Presario V2000 battery, Hp pavillion zx5000 battery, Hp EV087AA battery, Hp EX942AA battery, Hp Pavilion ZT3000 battery
Microsoft has also been working for years to make Windows 8.1 into a platform that works on any device, in any situation. Even as computing power became commoditized, Microsoft began to offer desktop software that doesn’t need much power at all.
Put it all together and the next step is obvious: Microsoft is back into the cheap laptop game. I’ve been using the first attempt, the $199 HP Stream 11, for a few weeks. It’s an 11-inch laptop, with everything a Windows device should have except for the high price tag.
The work’s not over yet, for Microsoft or anyone, but I think it might be time “netbook” stopped being a bad word.
I have a hard time imagining the Stream 11 in a Fortune 500 board room or in one of those British Airways first class seats that reclines all the way down. This just isn’t a particularly professional-looking device. It’s the colors: the Stream 11 comes not in black or silver, but in pink and blue. Neither is what I would call business-friendly. Or subtle. My blue review unit shifts in color from a royal blue on the lid to a sort of sea-foam blue on the palm rest; I like how it looks on my coffee table, but I don’t think I’d be terribly intimidating using it to engineer a hostile takeover.
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It’s made of smooth plastic, matte on the outside and a speckled polka-dot design on the palm rest. It’s mostly very well-made, its sturdy and cohesive design flecked only by the occasional lip where two pieces of plastic don’t come together quite right. It’s both thin and light, at 2.74 pounds and little over three-quarters of an inch thick. It feels noticeably bulkier than the thin, sharp-edged MacBook Air or any of a number of Windows ultrabooks, but among $200 laptops, this one is hard to beat. Even the small scuffs on its plastic lid tends to accrue come off with a little spit-shining.
Other than the color, there’s exactly nothing strange or even interesting about the Stream 11’s design. It has USB and HDMI ports on one side, an SD card slot on the other, an overwhelmingly mediocre set of speakers on the bottom, and a bad-but-usable webcam.
It has an 11.6-inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display that is exactly the same as almost every other screen like it — it’s pixelated and dim, and has terrible viewing angles. (Getting a better screen is always why I recommend spending a little more than the bare minimum on a laptop.) It gets between five and six hours of battery life, which isn’t deal-breakingly bad but isn’t exactly impressive either.
It has a good, clicky, island-style keyboard that I got used to very quickly, that has a surprising amount of travel and feedback for a device this thin. It also has, much to my sadness and not at all to my surprise, an infuriating trackpad. It recognizes a clicking finger as a swiping finger, and a swiping finger as nothing at all. It works if you’re careful and slow and delicate with it, but the Stream 11’s trackpad was always the thing that slowed me down while I tried to use it. That’s actually still the best reason to buy a Chromebook instead: your $200 might buy you a decent trackpad.
Bad screen, bad trackpad, mediocre battery life – those are all the standard complaints with Windows laptops, especially cheap ones. The Stream 11 isn’t a new thing, or a different level of thing. It’s just a laptop.
That’s the whole point, actually. The Stream 11 is just a laptop. In the history of netbooks, that’s the best thing I’ve ever been able to say. After spending time with this device, I can’t for the life of me figure out why you’d spend, say, $500 on a Windows laptop anymore unless you’re desperate for a larger screen. No, the Stream 11 doesn’t play games well, or often even at all, but neither does your average $400 Windows machine. This computer runs Photoshop poorly, as does any other cheap laptop, but it does basically everything else as well as it needs to. I get why you’d spent $800 or $1,000 on a laptop, because it’ll do more or look better, but it seems to me that $200 and $500 now buy basically the same thing in slightly different sizes.