Dan Ackerman leads CNET's coverage of computers and gaming hardware. A New York native and former radio DJ, he's also a regular TV talking head and the author of "The Tetris Effect" ...

What's electric blue, has an island style keyboard and costs just $199? The HP Stream 11, of course. We have to hand it to HP, in a world of look-alike laptops and cheesy-shiny plastic netbooks, the ...

Hewlett-Packard is stretching the limits of design with the announcement today of the colorful and thin HP Stream series of Windows laptops and tablets. Above: HP Stream laptops Targeted for the ...

With more than 1,000 units sold over the past 24 hours, the HP Stream 14 is one of the most popular laptop deals on Walmart right now. That’s because from its already affordable original price of $229 ...

I meant it when I said the Stream 11 looks like a netbook: It's a small, fanless machine, weighing 2.74 pounds, with a plain plastic shell. But damn if it isn't one of the more stylish netbooks I've ...

The HP Stream 11 is a Windows notebook with an 11.6 inch display, an Intel Celeron N2840 Bay Trail processor, and a fanless design. It also happens to be ridiculously cheap for a Windows notebook.

The Stream is a budget "cloud-based PC," available in five sizes, and one of the least-expensive ways to get Windows 8 in a laptop or tablet. Dan Ackerman Editorial Director / Computers and Gaming Dan ...

The latest in a long line of dirt-cheap HP laptops, the specific HP Stream 14 model we tested (14-dq0010nr) features 4GB of RAM, 64GB of eMMC flash storage, Intel UHD 600 Graphics as part of the CPU, ...

What's cheaper than a Chromebook these days? Apparently, HP hopes to have the answer with its Stream line of budget-priced, Windows-based laptops and tablets. There are two of each device: an ...

Cheap phones and computers aren’t as capable or as exciting as high-end phones and computers. We tend to focus on the expensive ones here because they’re where new tech usually shows up first, but ...

Equipped with an Intel Celeron processor and a cramped 11.6-inch display, the venerable HP Stream 11, refreshed several times in the course of its life, is one of the most bare-bones Windows laptops ...

Performance: Overall this laptop's performance was Poor, well below that of many other models and you may notice slowdowns in such things as boot-up, application launching, and video editing. Compared ...