HP Sream 13 = Dispoable, limited trash.

[smallhagrid]

I was given a used one & much to my chagrin it ran on w8.1 - which I simply cannot stand to even look at.

 

Over time I've tinkered with it a bit & discovered just how intransigent it was made to be.

 

In its favour - it has a very nice touchscreen - so I had hoped to get it working with Androidx86 - but that effort failed.

It has a built-in microSD reader...but refuses to boot from that.

 

Cons:

It has only 32GB of eMMC for system storage.

A couple of its arrow keys are worn out & dead.

 

It is useless for me & easily disposed of - problem solved.

 

Thanks for reading !!

Edited June 17 by smallhagrid
problem solved.

[xkryptonx]

@smallhagrid

 

With a charging port and two USB 2.0 slots on the right side, and an HDMI, USB 3.0, aux audio and micro SD card reader on the left side, the Stream 13 has everything you need to get connected. The two USB 2.0 slots and the single USB 3.0 port allow you to take advantage of faster external hard-drive speeds without sacrificing other ports for mice, keyboards or any other peripherals. You can expand beyond the internal 32GB of storage with the microSD slot

 

IF  the above specs are correct then you can you use a bootable usUSBb to upgrade to windows 10 x86 given than BIOS (CMOS/EFI) allows it.

 

At less than $250, the HP Stream 13 is a very affordable and fairly capable Windows 10 notebook, but its battery life could be better.

 

You can try Ventoy or other bootloader program to boot from usb. Also you can you various ISO of Android OS like Phoenix OS, Bliss OS.

But again if the BIOS // Hardware (x86 // x64) allows it. Then it is not a big issue. You can boot from USB drive. But if there is any restriction aforementioned then there is not much room for it. You only shot is to run an android emulator on it. But again 2 GB RAM is not going to help you out much. 

 

Hope that helps

Edited June 17 by xkryptonx

[smallhagrid]

Problem solved...by junking it.

 

It is purpose built for windoze ONLY, restricted severely via BIOS & UEFI, so;
Beyond useless for any other OS.

 

Its ONLY value point is the touchscreen, but by forcing its OS to be windoze that detail becomes totally irrelevant.

 

For someone content with such restrictions, this can be a good little disposable PC - quite fit for using up & tossing away.

 

A tablet with Android is a far more sane, useful & usable equipment choice.