[SOLVED] What can you do with an HP Stream?

[okrobie]

I bought this HP "Stream", "as-is" not realizing what it is. It has a 25Gb Solid State Drive and the original owner has free access to 1Tb of OneDrive for a year. (which is not me) So is it good for anything? Thanks, Jim

 

[USAFRet]

The Stream tablet? They were junk when they were brand new.
That's why HP basically gave them away.

They haven't gotten any better.

 

[okrobie]

Thanks USAFRet, Thanks for your service. It's not a tablet, it's a laptop. But you are correct in any case... JUNK!!! I bought it because it looks pretty and was dirt cheap. I suppose with all the people using Zoom these days, it would make a cheap Zoom machine. I can't think of many other good uses for it.

 

[okrobie]

I've been doing some research and I found that the Stream has an SDXC slot. I could add some SSD space to it pretty cheap. Would this be worth the expense?

You never know... It might be possible to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.

 

[USAFRet]

I have a similar level ASUS Transformer. 2GB RAM, 32GB eMMC drive.
It was sort of good as a travel machine for (slow) web browsing and watching movies.

SD card is cheap to add.

That's about it. The keyboard on that one died.
I have a second, somewhat better one.