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HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet

Posted by timothy on from the race-to-bottom dept.

jfruh writes While Windows-based tablets haven't exactly set the world on fire, Microsoft hasn't given up on them, and its hardware partners haven't either. HP has announced a series of Windows tablets, with the 7-inch low-end model, the Stream 7, priced at $99. The Stream brand is also being used for low-priced laptops intended to compete with Chromebooks (which HP also sells). All are running Intel chips and full Windows, not Windows RT.

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  1. now that its not $700 by GarretSidzaka · · Score: 4, Insightful

    sort of want

    1. Re: now that its not $700 by iamhassi · · Score: 3, Insightful

      But being $100 it will probably be slow and crappy which will make Windows 8 appear slower and crappier than it already is.

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    2. Re: now that its not $700 by slazzy · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I wouldn't be surprised if MS is paying HP to be selling these things so cheap...

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  2. Will it run Linux? by wirefarm · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I would be interested, if I didn't have to run Windows on it.

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  3. So, now HP sells a tablet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    For less than TI sells a calculator.

    1. Re:So, now HP sells a tablet by WrongMonkey · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Its not pointless at all. Long division and multiplication are an exercise in how to take a large calculation and algorithmically break it down into manageable units. This is a fundamental skill for practical math at any level.

  4. Re:How does it handle Pinterest? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The laptops are based on the Celeron N2840, with 2GB of RAM. I can't seem to find much in the way of benchmarks; but I suspect that they are surprisingly adequate. What is a bit surprising is that the the N2840 has a quoted tray price of $107, so either Intel is cutting HP one hell of a deal, or I don't even want to know what HP cobbled the rest of the system together from...

  5. Battery life? by gstoddart · · Score: 2, Insightful

    All are running Intel chips and full Windows

    A full windows install with Intel chips isn't exactly tuned for mobile battery performance.

    So will these things have an exceedingly short battery life?

    And I'm betting they will have so little memory as to be unusable -- because Windows with anything less than 4G is a complete dog in my experience.

    I predict a terrible product on this one.

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    1. Re:Battery life? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I've got the Asus transformerbook T100. It's a tablet that runs full fat windows 8.1 No fans. Charges USB. I get 8-10 hours of use out of it between charges. (Comes with a detachable keyboard/trackpad which is nice. Also has HDMI out)

      It's not as nice as, say, an ipad but it's a full windows machine and it costs half what an ipad does. Since Intel introduced the baytrail Atom they really have been able to make machines that operate in a no-bullshit tablet power enevlope.

  6. Re:99 is not sub $100 by ThorGod · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In a world where people throw away pennies or leave them lying on the street 99.99 is 100.

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