HP Stream Mini and Pavilion Mini PC with Windows

Last updated Jul 8, 2017 654

Stream Mini is a new system with Windows operating system offered at a typical price of Chromebox, $ 180 for a full PC. HP still points on the low end with two new mini-PC stylistic connotations rather ” happy ” and the price reduced to a minimum.

The company announced Stream Mini at CES in Las Vegas, less demanding for the user and with a price of $ 180, and Pavilion Mini PC, with a slightly higher price, Intel Haswell architecture and up to a maximum of 8 GB RAM preinstalled. Both have size to fit in the palm of a hand.

We begin with the HP Stream Mini: under the chassis plastic rounded find an Intel Celeron 2957U with 2 GB of RAM DDR3L / 1600 and an SSD M.2 32 GB. Purchasing the mini-PC you will have access to a two-year subscription to 200 GB of cloud OneDrive and a gift card for $ 25 to use on the Windows Store. Within the $ 180, in addition, HP has also included mouse and keyboard.

On the connectivity Stream, Stream Mini has a Gigabit Ethernet port, four USB 3.0 ports, built-in support for Wi-Fi 802.11n, Bluetooth 4.0 and a card reader memory. There is also a combo jack 3.5 mm headphone and microphone, a port DisplayPort 1.2 and HDMI 1.4. Incomplete sentenceIncluded in the price of the operating system, in this case Windows 8.1 with Bing, the cheaper version at Microsoft.

A solution that challenges even the Chromebox at their best, which is the price: the street-price system with Chrome OS cheaper than HP is about $ 160-190 in the US, to which we must add the outlay for mouse and keyboard.

Equally interesting, but more expensive, the new HP Pavilion Mini which presented together with Stream Mini. It is a system of similar size but with most interesting technical features: the base of the mini system will find an Intel Pentium 3558U, 4 GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard drive. HP offers mouse, keyboard and Windows Store gift card on Pavilion Mini, missing instead subscription OneDrive.

Pavilion Mini PC, as well as the younger brother, is also possible to replace the RAM modules with standard SODIMM up to a maximum of 16 GB. The system will be sold in the US by the end of January at a price of $ 319 with Windows 8.1 and will be also provided a more expensive version with Intel Core i3 and 1 TB hard drive.

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