this right here is a laptop that sums up
everything wrong with the state of the
computing industry nowadays this is an
HP stream 13 altering
Windows 10 or Windows 8 laptop and it is
one of the worst types of laptops you
can buy nowadays these super super ultra
cheap pieces of crap that come with
windows on them now these are
essentially the spiritual successor to
the netbooks but somehow even worse
because at least on the netbooks the RAM
and storage was socketed this soldered
you've got 32 gigs of storage that
soldered onto the motherboard it's
actually an SD card soldered here and
you also have 2 gigs of ram which is
soldered you can upgrade it good luck
and these are designed to be ultra cheap
they're ultra thin at least because you
know after Steve Jobs showed off the
MacBook Air every laptop nowadays has to
be super ultra thin but guess what it's
pretty cheap it's really really cheap
you've got the usual cheap plastic
laptop issues you've got the hinge it's
probably gonna break in a few years at
most
you've got the touchpad which will
probably end up dying and that's a pain
to use it's just like huge square like
this this is a kind of touchpad that
Apple fanboys think all PC touch pads
are this touchpad right here and a
keyboard which is at least it's better
than the butterfly keyboard and it's
usable ok the keyboards actually want a
few good things about this laptop and
the screen is acceptable but the storage
and RAM that soldered in kills this
thing and if you don't believe me 32
gigs ain't enough to do anything there
are a lot of programs that take up 32
gigs of storage and more if you install
Adobe you're taking up gigs of storage
if you install um Visual Studio you're
you can't even do that on this thing
because this has so little storage
especially is he check off more more
components
and you install like games and stuff you
ain't gonna do that on here unless you
pop a micro SD card in here and that's
not changing the fact that Windows
Update is going to eat gigs and gigs of
this system up like pac-man or something
but despite the fact that this system is
absolute bottom of the barrel garbage
I'm gonna show you a very easy way to
make this thing more usable that doesn't
involve the vault that doesn't involve
this video to evolving into a shitty
clickbait video of me throwing this
laptop out the window or smashing it
with a bunch of sledgehammers no no this
is a way to make this laptop more usable
it's called Linux so let's turn this
thing on state so as we can see here
this laptop has a celery and 2840 and
two gigs of ram and it only has 32 gigs
of storage and it look it even called SD
w 32 G so you could probably use an SD
card if the on-board storage ever craps
at which it probably eventually will but
I've installed Ubuntu on this thing and
what do you know everything on this
laptop works great it's nice it's doing
the boot up process of course you can
see here it's loading nothing too
special it doesn't even say what CPU it
is that's how cheap this is it just says
until insight just like on a Chromebook
in fact this thing was made to compete
with Chromebooks which are literally
bottom-of-the-barrel useless pieces of
crap that are essentially glorified
Internet appliances they're made for
going on the internet and nothing else
but this you can actually make it
somewhat like a computer I've put my
password in
and it doesn't take long at all to get
to the desktop especially for something
as chunk as this is now these laptops
are essentially the spiritual successor
to those crappy netbooks he saw a few
years ago except they're worse because
at least in those storage and RAM were
socketed but in this they're not and
they kind of make it a little bit hard
to replace
so yeah this laptop is acceptable but it
seems to work fine video seems to be 60
Hertz I couldn't open up the Internet
and go on here
and it makes it a little bit more useful
you want to open up the internet you
want to open up telegram or something
you can do it on this thing with 32 gigs
of storage you don't need a lot of space
with Linux Linux runs great updates
really don't make your system run slow
and take 10 hours to complete like with
Windows 10 and you can surf the web on
this thing - okay you can surf the web
and buy yourself a better laptop for not
too much you can go on eBay and search
for ThinkPad x2 20 actually I meant I
typed the next 200 meant to type in x
220 whoops with Linux you can make this
laptop fast enough to go on eBay and get
yourself for the price of one of these
new an X 220 or less than that actually
you can get one where somebody already
put Windows 10 on it
and a 500 gig storage device or you can
get one with no hard drive or no OS so
if we type in no OS
but yeah as you can see this thing
browses the web just fine with Linux on
here and that's the point I'm trying to
make with this laptop you can browse you
can browse the web just fine on here and
here's another fun fact I'll show you in
a second so you can get these laptops
without the hard drives pretty cheap
look 89 bucks by now cheaper than this
and you can get like a micro Center SSD
that'll fly on that but here's something
I mashed you I got the Wi-Fi working on
here there's there's no nothing plugged
in nothing plugged in it's it's just
working now you might be wondering how I
did that well what I did was when I
installed it I checked to install the
proprietary drivers but if they go into
MIT let's go in here as you can see here
I actually managed to get the the Wi-Fi
working because it uses the WL driver
and if you check to use proprietary
drivers when installing Ubuntu mate it
will actually grab those drivers as well
if you're not using it you'll have to
install manually which can depend on
your Linux this rope but as you can see
the slap top does work decently on Linux
I mean there's only two gigs of RAM so
if you're gonna nail this with something
like discord this thing is really gonna
start slowing down especially if you
load up more and more apps and it starts
to stress the two gig of ram it's not
upgradeable mind you because they
decided to solder it now with newer ones
they have for exam and that's much more
usable for Linux but at the same time
you're basically polishing a crappy
laptop but if this is the only laptop
you're stuck with definitely give Linux
a shot on one of these laptops but don't
go out of your way buying one of these
for Linux just purchase at X 220 or
something you'll like it a lot more
my mom bought me a computer and it can't
even run Touhou so I gotta play MAME
instead oh yeah I'm a gamer now mom I'm
a pro gamer professional gamer I'm
gaming so I just unplugged this and I'm
getting six hours and 45 minutes of
battery life and that's not if I'm
straining the CPU or anything from doing
like web browsing and stuff on here cuz
you do more intense web browsing it's
gonna stress this thing like crazy but
and of course is one knows even quote
unquote efficient CPUs if they're slow
you're gonna be losing a lot of battery
from doing stuff on here because because
you're basically using more power to do
this stuff over time because of how slow
it is so yeah but hey at least it uh at
least it's really thin I guess see at
all all in all these laptops are pretty
crap is you'd expect but at least with
Linux you can make them more usable to
an extent and that's all that needs to
be said about this setup thanks for
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