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Hi everyone,

We have a gaming desktop and regular laptop for work and entertainment. But, I was looking into Chromebooks when I saw this HP Stream laptop. Like Chromebooks but with Windows. The HP sites says it has an AMD A4-Series APU with AMD Radeon R3 Graphics, 2GB RAM and 32GB HD with Windows 8.1.

1. Can this thing run old games from the 90's? Like Baldur's Gate or Ice Wind Dale? Like turn based almost 2d graphics... so you can sit on the couch with something light weight.

2. I know 8.1 will still chew up most of the SSD. Can a USB or something expand that so I can get Steam on this thing... for the very light style gaming I am hoping to accomplish.

Cheers

Steve
 
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Personally, I would go with the additional Windows 8 Laptop. Mostly because the way i see the chromebook is moreso a large device for web surfing. I have a 5"+ Phone so if I need something like to take with me to do things like netflix/browsing/emails/music I can turn to that.

The thing with the Stream is that it "has the ability" to do more. Like you said, it CAN play slightly older games or indie games from steam, that itself is a very valuable trait.
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It should be able to run some of those games just gotta check for compatibility.

I believe the version of windows for the Stream series is "Windows 8.1 With Bing" which is a smaller version of Windows 8.1 (I think to the tune of about 5-6 ish GB, can't remember. But a Windows 8.1+Bing and its recovery partition on a 16GB Tablet uses up to like 9.5GB). But ya, you can always plug in a 64 GB USB stick and have your movies/pictures/music on there to save space.

Heres a review if you want to read up on it.

http://winsupersite.com/mobile/hp-stream-11-first-impressions
 
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Thank you for the link. I just found it on Amazon and someone was running Steam with Civ 4. I'm not looking to get that involved but having Steam on there would be pretty nice for some Indies, etc.

Out of the two, Chromebook or a Windows "light" laptop, what would you take? Knowing you had another laptop and desktop for serious gaming and work.
 
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Personally, I would go with the additional Windows 8 Laptop. Mostly because the way i see the chromebook is moreso a large device for web surfing. I have a 5"+ Phone so if I need something like to take with me to do things like netflix/browsing/emails/music I can turn to that.

The thing with the Stream is that it "has the ability" to do more. Like you said, it CAN play slightly older games or indie games from steam, that itself is a very valuable trait.
 
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