HP Essential
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HP Essential is a trademark name used by HP Inc. (formerly Hewlett-Packard) to denote their own line of entry-level, inexpensive laptops produced since 2009. Products under the "Essential" moniker include the HP Laptop series[1] and HP Notebook series, as well as products simply branded as "HP". A similar line called HP Stream consisted of low-end consumer-oriented laptops and tablets. All HP Essential products use the Microsoft Windows operating system.
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Developer | Hewlett-Packard (HP Inc.) |
Type | Laptop/notebook |
Release date | 2009 |
Operating system | Windows |
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Website | store.hp.com...Essential |
The HP Essential line is slowly being phased out in favor of the revived OmniBook brand of laptops, due to a corporate streamlining of products that happened in 2024.[2]
Models
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HP Laptop
- HP Laptop 17t (Intel N200, Intel Core i5/5, Intel Core i7/7)[1]
- HP Laptop 17z (AMD Athlon Gold, AMD Ryzen 5, AMD Ryzen 7)
- HP Laptop 15t (Intel Core i5/5, Intel Core Ultra 5, Intel Core i7/7)
- HP Laptop 15z (AMD Athlon Silver, AMD Ryzen 5)
- HP Laptop 14t (Intel Celeron, Intel N200, Intel Core i3/3, Intel Core i5/5, Intel Core Ultra 5)
- HP Laptop 14z (AMD Athlon Silver, AMD Ryzen 5)
HP Notebook
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200 Series
HP 255 notebook is a budget laptop.[5][6][7] The latest (as of 2023) ninth generation model (G9) is equipped with AMD Ryzen 3, 5 or 7 mobile processors.[8]
300 Series
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400 Series
HP 450 notebook comes in a choice of Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium, and Intel Core i3.[9]
500 Series
HP 520 notebook, a low-end business laptop with either Core Duo T2400 or other Celeron M processors, and either with Windows Vista Business or Basic preinstalled, or if chosen, Red Hat 10.
600 Series
HP 620 notebook from 2010 featured a dual-core Intel Pentium CPU.[10]
HP 630 was released in 2011 with a Intel Pentium P6200 dual-core processor. The HP 635 instead had an AMD Zacate E-350.[11]
HP Stream series
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The HP Stream series was first introduced in November 2014.[12]
First generation comparison
Stream 10 | Stream 11 | Stream 11 Pro | Stream 13 | Stream 14 | Stream 14 Pro | Stream x360 | Stream 7 | Stream 8 | |
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Type | Laptop | 2-in-1 | Tablet | ||||||
Display | 11.6" | 14.1" | 11.6" | 7" 1280×800 | 8" 1280×800 | ||||
CPU | Intel Celeron | Intel Celeron N2840 | Intel Celeron | Intel Celeron or Pentium | Intel Atom Z73735G | ||||
Memory | 4 GB | 1 GB | |||||||
Storage | 500 GB | 1 TB | 500 GB | 32 GB | |||||
HDMI ports | No | Yes | |||||||
USB ports | USB | 2x USB 3.0 | 1x USB 3.0 | 1x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0 | |||||
SD card slot | No | Yes | |||||||
Ethernet port | No | No | Yes |
Laptops
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HP Stream 10
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HP Stream 11
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HP Stream 11 Pro
The first generation Stream 11 Pro was introduced in January 2015, with the same 1366x768 11.6-inch display as Stream 11, but with a different keyboard.[13]
Since then more generations of the 11 Pro have been released:
HP Stream 13
The first HP Stream 13 came with a 2.16 GHz Intel Celeron N2480 processor and Intel HD graphics, retailing for $230.[18]
HP Stream 14
HP Stream 14 came out in 2014 with a AMD A4 Micro-6400T APU[19] (model no. series 14-Z0).
An updated version came in 2016 (model no. series 14-AX, 14-CB?) with 1.6 GHz Intel Celeron N3060.[20]
Another Stream 14 revision (model no. series 14-DS) was released in 2020.[21]
HP Stream 14 Pro
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HP Stream x360
The Stream x360 is a 2-in-1 convertible that came in 11.6" (model. 11-P0) and 13.3" variants when released in 2015. It had a Intel Celeron dual-core 2.16 GHz N2840 chip with 2 GB of RAM.[22]
A second generation (11-AA) was released in 2016 with CPU upgraded to Celeron N3060.
Tablets
HP Stream 7
The HP Stream 7 is a tablet computer that runs the Microsoft Corporation's Windows operating system. It was announced on September 29, 2014.
HP Stream 8
The HP Stream 8 is a tablet computer designed by Hewlett-Packard that runs the Microsoft Corporation's Windows operating system.
See also
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