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Re: Lowest low end you can have?
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 8:46 am
by Skeithex
I know the HP stream laptops is basically just a browser laptop because it has such low specs, space and processor that it can only run a browser and maybe something simple like notepad.
Re: Lowest low end you can have?
Posted: Sun Nov 26, 2017 7:04 pm
by froggyboy604
There is a 4GB RAM version of the HP Stream which may help with multi-tasking with Notepad, MS Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
But, I feel the HP Stream may not even good for more intensive web browsing with many tabs open, watching online HD and 4K video, and playing 3D web browser games.
Re: Lowest low end you can have?
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:15 am
by Skeithex
yeah it won't be doing any of that. Though the 4 GB version may get you by with office.
Re: Lowest low end you can have?
Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2017 11:31 pm
by froggyboy604
I think if you use Office more advance programs like MS Access Database, and a larger Excel Spreadsheet files, the HP stream maybe too slow since Databases and Spreadsheets can be very big if they have a lot of data in them.
Re: Lowest low end you can have?
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 8:42 am
by Skeithex
I remember using access in a school classroom and that the RAM usage did get a bit high. Just depends on the size of the database you are putting together.
Re: Lowest low end you can have?
Posted: Tue Nov 28, 2017 9:00 am
by froggyboy604
Access can be used to store picture and other non-text files, and a poorly designed database made by a less experience database user can make the database run slower on lowend computers and servers when user add a lot of data to the database like a database for a large blog or forum which has a lot of data.
Re: Lowest low end you can have?
Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2017 7:52 am
by Skeithex
We were never taught how to optimize it at school class on this, just mainly how to fill one out which was rather tedious.