New AMD Fusion-Based Laptop From HP to Pack a Punch at $199

From DailyTech: Germany's Mobile Geeks has leaked the spec sheet of an intriguing new 14-inch laptop from Hewlett-Packard Comp. (HPQ), dubbed the "HP Stream Notebook PC". The new laptop is priced at $199 USD and is one of the new Windows 8.1 laptops in Microsoft Corp.'s (MSFT) push to counter the growing success of low-cost Chromebooks, laptops powered by Google Inc.'s (GOOG) Linux-based Chrome OS.

The new HP laptop carries some of the compromises you'd expect at this sort of price point. Its 14-inch panel is non-touch and its resolution -- 1,366 x 768 pixels -- is nothing to write home about. Another annoyance is the lack of upgradeable memory. The onboard memory (DDR3L-1333 MHz) is soldered to the motherboard and non-upgradeable. At maximum you can get 2 GB, but in the base ($199 USD) model you get some unknown lesser amount -- possibly 1 GB.

Storage space is also rather paltry. In terms of internal storage, the cheaper model also only carries 32 GB of NAND (via an eMMC drive). An upgrade to 64 GB of internal flash storage is offered. Storage may not be a major detraction, though as an SD-card reader provides ample room for external storage and Microsoft is offering 100 GB of free cloud storage via its OneDrive service.

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