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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Re:How does it handle Pinterest? by afidel · 2014-09-30 05:17 · Score: 3, Interesting

They're likely getting a subsidy from MS paid for by future Office365/OneDrive revenues plus I'm sure this has Bing integration so there's some ad revenue to split.

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Re:Screens too small for Windows by Immerman · 2014-09-30 05:53 · Score: 3, Interesting

>Hospitals are a huge source of infections, despite efforts to disinfect everything in sight.
Arguably to some extent because of efforts to disinfect everything in sight. The result being that any infection you pick up has a good chance of being drug resistant. The problem with multiple drug resistant (i.e. virtually untreatable) infections was getting so bad in some hospitals in... the Netherlands I think it was... that they decided to stop disinfecting entirely. Instead they went back to the old fashioned approach of *cleaning* things thoroughly - remove the germs from the environment and it doesn't matter if they're dead or not. Those hospitals are now the safest in the world when it comes to infections. Infection rates are down, and there is no longer any trace of the drug resistant strains so if you do pick up an infection it's easily treatable.

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Re: New tablet price point by Anon-Admin · 2014-09-30 06:25 · Score: 4, Interesting

The $35 ones I bought were dual core, 1024mb ram, 2g internal storage, 10 point capacitive touch, with a micro-SD slot that will take up to a 32gig card.
So far they play all the games and run just about anything we care to put on them. Though We use them for browsing and as the remote control for the OpenElec XBMC/Raspberry Pi units.