HP Stream 14" Laptop | Intel N4120 Processor | 4 GB RAM | 64 GB eMMC | Intel UHD Graphics | HD Display | Dual Speakers | Microsoft 365 Personal 12 month included | Win 11 | Jet Black | 14s-dq0000sa

I've been using the HP Stream 14" Laptop since November 2024, and I have to say, it’s a fantastic little device for the price! Right now, I’m actually writing this review on it, and it’s handling everything smoothly. One of the best things about this laptop is how lightweight and compact it is—perfect for carrying around. The battery life is impressive, lasting hours on a single charge, which means I don’t have to stress about finding an outlet during the day. It has a sleek, stylish design that looks great, and despite its budget-friendly price, it doesn’t feel cheap. Performance-wise, it zips along pretty quickly for everyday tasks like web browsing, streaming movies, and working on documents. While it’s not the fastest laptop out there, it works a treat for programs and apps that don’t demand too much memory. Overall, if you’re looking for a budget-friendly laptop that’s portable, reliable, and stylish, the HP Stream 14" is a solid choice. Pretty good value for money!

great price and quality works fast and more storage space and bigger screen for me love it look great sound quality is good to touch screen so easy to use another great laptop from hp love it

Black Friday Amazon UK deal £129.99. Ordered early evening, arrived noon next day on free delivery. Impressive. This is a Windows 11 Home HP model with a black textured case. It includes a camera and sound-bar arrangement of the internal speakers along the top of the keyboard. Two USB A and one USB C, plus an SD card reader. Earpiece and mic socket is a combo connection, which means my separate ear phones and mic require the purchase of a splitter lead for £3.50. As there is no built in LAN connection, I also purchased a USB C adapter to run the laptop where wi-fi is too weak. So that's around £10.00 of extras. The contact pad is fine, but I prefer a mouse: £1.59 for a basic wired mouse on eBay. This is a thin and light HP unit. Think tablet more than laptop. The keyboard is positive and easy to type on. Celeron processor and 4 gb RAM produce an acceptable but not blistering speed for admin, movies, music, You Tube, and BBC iPlayer/Netflix. I'm not into gaming, so can't comment. Includes free Win 365 software access for a year and free McCaffe virus protection. I ditched both in the interest of speed. Set up was ok and gave the option of using previous browser settings. I prefer to start afresh - a good ruse to ditch the junk from the previous laptop! There is a lot of pressure to adopt Windows/MicroSoft settings, including their Edge Browser. Be persistent and you can down load your preferred alternatives. eg Chrome browser and set these as the default. Linking WhatsApp and Spotify to existing accounts was easy using a mobile to scan the QR code on the HP screen. Battery life seems fine - about 3 hours of constant use. The included power adapter is a bit 1980's being aesthetically a black brick with UK mains plug and basic plug into the laptop: fairly useful cable length. Screen clean and bright, easily adjustable via Settings or rather oddly the bottom right of screen sliders which offer brightness and volume. Just as laptops make desktop PCs seem over-sized, this HP unit makes existing laptops appear overweight!

a bit slow but does the job, nice back up and very cheep.

Excellent just as expected from HP first experience with Window 11 home edition, so still getting head round whole functionality of unit and system. Unfortunately not a lighted keyboard but that was my own error, very easy to use in general and set up was no great problem. The unit is good value for price and as a DIYr I’m confident this will be an asset for the usage I need,, I would recommend this laptop not only for entry level but also for those of us who consider ourselves computer literate LOL.

I wanted to get a basic laptop to be able to do personal stuff on in preference to using my work laptop or the steam-driven 2016-vintage tower unit that I was still harbouring in a cupboard in my home office. Although the laptop is absolutely fine for basic use (and has the added bonus of a 12-month free subscription to M365), it’s not as quick as a more expensive model due to the use of a basic Celeron processors - plus there are a couple of serious compromises that you ought to know about if you’re hoping to get a laptop that you can chop and change with a more powerful, professional one. The first is the memory - it only has a 128gb SSD, and while I thought that would be ample, it doesn’t come close to saving all my accumulated photos over the years. I can live with this though, by keeping them on an external hard drive. The second (and more irksome) compromise is that although it has a USB-C port, this doesn’t power the laptop, nor does it recognise the two external monitors that I have plugged into a hub for my work laptop. Whilst I can still use a second monitor with it, by unplugging the HDMI lead for one of my monitors from the hub and into the laptop, and plug the power adapter into the laptop as well, it’s not the smooth swap-out process between my work and personal laptops that I was hoping for. Of course, these are definitely First World Problems and I know that you get what you pay for - I could have had the same functionality with a more expensive model, but I only wanted it for the basics. Nevertheless I did want to write this review so that others would know that if you’re looking for the same ability to switch machines seamlessly, you’ll need to go a little bit higher up the price range.

After reading the reviews I was a bit sceptical about buying this laptop. However, for the price and what I want it for (programming fire alarms and basic report writing) it was a risk worth taking. I am not at all disappointed! Its a great little machine. Lightweight, good screen and its fairly nippy with regards performance. Yeah its not for gaming or HD video streaming on multiple windows but if you are realistic with your expectations for a £150 laptop you wont be disappointed. My only recommendation would be to go for the 128GB version as the 64GB soon fills up. However, there is a full size SD card slot and I have added a cheap 128GB card for storage and it works great. Laptop has bluetooth too which is a good feature if you want to add a mouse etc. although the touch pad is fine. Its lightweight and has that HP build feel so its sturdy and has a nice textured finish. I travel the country and wanted a small, lightweight model to fit in a small bag and it ticks the box. Windows 11 seems to run fine with minimal lag. I have turned off the "s" mode as I don't want to be locked to using just Microsoft apps. It has two full sized USB ports and a C type too. There's an HDMI connector too which I use with my projector and that works great. All in all, great little laptop for basic stuff.

A decent budget laptop. The laptop is lightweight and was easy to do an initial set up. Seemed ok but the build quality let it down ( but I guess because it is a budget machine). Also, I did not like the disply quality. The display quality gave the image/text a lack of depth/clarity? ...tried to adjust to suit my preferences ( as per my old laptop) but was not happy just didn't seem right. The only way I could describe the display and that it appeared 'milky'. Return in progress. Decided to spend a bit more money and get a higher spec.