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At Microsoft’s partner conference today the company’s COO Kevin Turner announced that this holiday season HP is going to release a $199 laptop that runs on Windows. This would take Windows into Chromebook territory as the latter has already seen a surge in its adoption due to the fact that many Chromebooks are very competitively priced. This isn’t Microsoft’s first move to move into the low-end segment of the market. In fact at its BUILD 2014 conference the company announced that it would offer Windows for free on select devices.
While Kevin didn’t reveal any specifications of the HP “Stream” device he did point out that several $249 Windows laptops are already available from the likes of Toshiba and Acer. The former’s laptop offers a 15.6-inch display with a 2.16GHz Intel Celeron processor. Intel’s Celeron processors appear to be pivotal in this push to the low-end segment.
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It's good to see that are now more cheap laptops for people looking to buy a cheap laptop instead of paying $300-400 for a cheap laptop.
The specs of these cheap laptops sound pretty good since a 2.16 GHz CPU is fast enough for even some intensive tasks like video editing regular videos, and photo editing, and 15.6 inch monitor is big enough to comfortably watch a video or read a website.
While Kevin didn’t reveal any specifications of the HP “Stream” device he did point out that several $249 Windows laptops are already available from the likes of Toshiba and Acer. The former’s laptop offers a 15.6-inch display with a 2.16GHz Intel Celeron processor. Intel’s Celeron processors appear to be pivotal in this push to the low-end segment.
Read More
It's good to see that are now more cheap laptops for people looking to buy a cheap laptop instead of paying $300-400 for a cheap laptop.
The specs of these cheap laptops sound pretty good since a 2.16 GHz CPU is fast enough for even some intensive tasks like video editing regular videos, and photo editing, and 15.6 inch monitor is big enough to comfortably watch a video or read a website.
