HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet

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HP Introduces Sub-$100 Windows Tablet

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 30, 2014 @04:46AM 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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now that its not $700 by GarretSidzaka · 2014-09-30 04:49 · Score: 4, Insightful

sort of want
1. Re: now that its not $700 by slazzy · 2014-09-30 05:56 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  I wouldn't be surprised if MS is paying HP to be selling these things so cheap...
  
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So, now HP sells a tablet by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-30 04:51 · Score: 5, Insightful

For less than TI sells a calculator.
Re:How does it handle Pinterest? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · 2014-09-30 05:11 · 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...
Re:Battery life? by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-30 05:55 · 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.