HP Stream Thoughts…
I was very excited to see a new offering in the cloud based
computer world from Microsoft and HP.
Office 365 is definitely growing and felt strongly that this would end
up being strong competition to the Chromebook community. Being a Microsoft district running on mostly
all HP equipment, I was very hopeful. HP
is a great company who always meets our needs each and every year. It pains me to say that this really missed
the mark. To be honest, I’m not sure it
even landed anywhere on the paper… I
will state that the construction of the device for the price point is very good
and would easily rival Chromebooks, so in that regard I don’t fault HP. What we end up with here, is a next
generation, under powered netbook running a Windows 8 Pro OS. I’m not sure why they are really marketing
this any differently. The thought behind
it from what I gathered through discussions with various individuals was that
the reduction in hard disk space would push people towards relying on the cloud
platform. I can understand and
appreciate that, however, we have all seen what happens when you have an
underpowered netbook running a full Windows OS.
They will be slow to boot, need additional software to protect from
malware and virus infections. They are
now going to be managed by GPO in your domain which also adds to additional
processing at boot up and login. I
really see this going the way of the netbook and don’t see it gaining any
traction in education. If Microsoft
produces a cloud based OS, then they may have something, but until then… Save
your money and frustration.
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