Once i get my account verified in a day, I’ll pin your comment at the top haha. Darn google won’t let me do that without verifying my account 😂 also where’s the computer now? I’m guessing it was thrown in the garbage 4 years ago but I might be wrong 🤣
I have a 4 GB RAM version sitting a few feet away that I got from my late uncle whom I think bought it because his other actually halfway decent in comparison laptop despite being older(at least once I installed an SSD instead of the platter HDD) was having problems. And yes, as it comes is awful, I completely agree with your sentiment. eMMC drives are the worst, and if you install linux on it, it literally shows up to the OS the same as an SD card, and what's worse is that you can actually get far bigger SD cards for relatively cheap, but they had to use the smallest one that technically windows 10 would fit on, because they figured people would keep all their files on onedrive or something, and also means it'll eventually die pretty damn fast and you can't swap it out. And the cpu just bottlenecks /everything/. Heck the 4 GB of ram isn't even that big of a problem compared to the drive and CPU. I tried linux on it for a while just to try out linux, but I think I might've been left with a bad impression of linux as it's just so bad on a hardware level that even linux can't fully save it, I mean it /is/ smoother with a lightweight distro, but it still struggles. I finally installed Tiny10 on it, which does use more than 2 GB so probably isn't good for a 2 GB model, but it actually is... usable I guess, though youtube loads thumbnails rather slow and it lags trying to switch back and forth from full screen, but playback is... okay once it fully loads. Not ultra HD or anything, but lower Res plays pretty smooth I guess.
Nonsense, your Stream model is 4-5 years old with 2/32 memory. All newer ones have 4/64 memory and much better Celeron N4120 processors with security features that can run Windows 11. Not gaming rigs but perfectly fine for Netflix, RU-vid, Zoom meetings, email and web surfing. IOW, good for 80% of people and a great second or travel computer for anyone.
@@anton_idk This video was posted just 10 months ago, when the computer was already several years old. The separate CMOS battery shown at 3:14 is pre Covid tech. Nonetheless, Windows 10 will run OK on this computer if you manage your expectations and compress the OS (use CompactOS) to clear up ~7GB. It was a cheap computer from the start.
I still have mine, that is the 11-d015na model (celeron, 2G+32G) and is pretty capable on 1440p streams from Netflix, Cruncyroll or Disney+. Because has passive cooling and is pretty sturdy, can be used as on-the-go media center
Have not had the relatively good fortune of the newer 4/64 model with the N4120, I unfortunately inherited a N3060 4/32 model and it's just awful with stock windows 10. Linux or Tiny10 are better, but it's still not good by any means. It's... usable if you only need basics and are a little patient. Though I've literally seen much better computers for around the same price. Either used/refurbished, or heck I saw a clearance sale for a $250 8 GB, 6-core 12-thread 250 GB NVMe laptop just the other day and I have to say I'm tempted if I actually needed a laptop regularly. Only relatively great thing about the stream that I could name is that if you maybe were running off-grid, this thing absolutely sips power at only like 7 watts with the screen on low and under load, not sure about the N4120. I did check the specs and at least on paper it's got twice the cores and supports a lot more codecs for hardware acceleration.
Honestly, I wouldn't mind having one of these if I found one for cheap. Not for regular use, just to play around with and for things like Arduino programming.
any windows laptop are required to send user information and voice recordings to CIA HQ in Langley, Virgina every 15 seconds. if you install Linux operating system -> those requirements are void and your PC suddenly runs soooo much smoother
@@JK-dv3qe love the conspiracy theory Linux commercial, but I have used Linux before and I just prefer Windows a bit on my personal machines mainly for compatibility reasons
I was hoping that this would be a useful video, as I have just purchased a 2nd hand, really cheap 4gb/64gb version, but I gave up watching because of your language. It is totally unnecessary.
I have a 17" gaming laptop, a mini PC for home theater, a tower for video editing, and this thing. I got my HP Stream 11 off Craigslist for $40. Reset it, loaded a 256GB with early emulators (PS1 backwards) and a ton of movies and TV shows. It connects to a BT controller and headphones and the battery lasts forever. It's a lightweight entertainment center to take anywhere. I don't mind it a bit for 40 bones.
will it run linux though? that often is a 'refresh' for lots of older laptops (without the Microsoft bloatware and also the constant reporting to CIA HQ in Langley, Virginia)
I had one of these briefly in my hands and I couldn't stop being angry when I saw that the business model was cloud storage... but I don't think it worked out for them, since the owners quickly gave up on this shit that sold for about 200 usd. I have a toshiba satellite l515 with a core 2 duo t9300, 8 gg of ram and a 250 ssd. It's from 2009 and I swear to god it's much more powerful than this damn thing.
Bought one for $100, model was the 11-ak0035nr. Turned it on and regretted ever looking at it. The thing ran out of storage space before ever being connected to WIFI. I could make this video last 2 hours longer on just my experience with the first bootup ALONE. It CAME WITH 2 YEARS OF Microsoft 365 so I HAD to get it working before wiping it clean to use Linux on it. I hate these so much.
I managed to get Linux Mint XFCE installed and it works OK but I still feel it's slow. At least I have about 16GB free! I had Windows 10 installed and it had barely had anything left since it's a 32GB emmc crap.
