The HP Stream 11's 3.6 x 2.1-inch touchpad was responsive and pleasant to use. However, if you want a better keyboard in this price range, consider the Lenovo Ideapad 100S-14, which has 1.9 mm of travel and requires 79 grams of force. (We prefer at least 60 grams.) Thanks to this solid feedback, I didn't find myself bottoming out while typing. Though the Stream 11's keyboard has a shallow 1.2 millimeters of key travel (1.5 to 2 mm is typical), it requires a solid 69 grams of force to register a key press. When I handed the Stream to a colleague, his error rate quadrupled from 2 to 8 percent, and his speed dropped from 100 wpm to 92 wpm. That is definitely a step down from my usual speed of 80 words per minute with a 7 percent error rate. On the typing test, I scored 73 words per minute with a whopping 20 percent error rate. The Dell Inspiron 14 3000's speakers are a distant fourth. The speakers on the Lenovo Ideapad 100S-14 are quiet but decent, but not quite as good as the ones on those two machines. These speakers definitely sound more intense than the ones on the Samsung Chromebook 3. For one thing, its dual speakers actually sound dynamic and full, even though they're located at the bottom front of the device. I wasn't expecting very high audio quality from this little $200 laptop, but the HP Stream 11 blew me away. Unfortunately, the laptop's hinges will let you tilt back the screen only about 25 degrees to adjust the angle. Otherwise, you'll encounter dark spots that make it tough to see what's happening on-screen. For the best viewing experience, you need to be directly in front of its display to find that elusive sweet spot. Vertical viewing angles are also not the Stream 11's strong suit, though side-to-side angles are better. Both 14-inch laptops' color ranges were much higher than those on these smaller screens, with the Lenovo reproducing 83.5 percent of the gamut and the Dell displaying 81.4 percent. The Stream's screen can reproduce 77.5 percent of the sRGB gamut, as opposed to the measly 63.1 percent that the Samsung Chromebook 3 managed. When I watched the same scene on the Samsung Chromebook 3, its 259-nit screen showed far more details of the villain's gold armor than the Stream 11's display did. I also had trouble seeing all the details in Vulture's armor in the Spider-Man: Homecoming trailer. While the screens on both the Stream 11 and the Lenovo Ideapad 100S-14 have the same total brightness average (188 nits), I preferred the Ideapad's display because black text actually looked black on the panel, unlike on the Stream 11, where the grayish-looking text forced me to squint while reading. The Samsung Chromebook 3, however, is near perfect, with a Delta-E of 0.21. It earned a Delta-E rating of 3.69 (lower is better), which is in the same ballpark as the scores from its 14-inch rivals (3.46 for the Dell Inspiand 3.85 for the Lenovo Ideapad 100S-14). After it streamed a 15-minute, 1080p video, the underside measured 86 degrees, which is below our 95-degree comfort threshold.The colors produced by the Stream 11's display aren't particularly accurate, but they are on a par with those of other laptops in its price range. The Stream 11 doesn't get very hot under pressure. Whatever part of the ceiling that the camera could capture was blown out by the lights. The red in my shirt was completely drained from the photo, and there was little to no facial detail. The test image I shot on the Stream looked like it was cropped to zoom in on my face and neck. Most 720p shooters aren't great, but a 360p webcam is a whole new level of bad. After it continuously surfed the web over Wi-Fi at 150 nits of brightness, the battery lasted a solid 9 hours and 19 minutes, which nails its predecessor's 8:23, as well as the budget laptop average (7:37) and the VivoBook (6:09). Regarding battery life, the Stream 11 is more reliable than some laptops that cost somewhere in the quadruple digits. Its Intel UHD 600 GPU scored 16,804 on the 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited, which beats the 2017 Stream 11's Intel HD 400 GPU (16,230), but not the VivoBook's Intel HD 500 GPU (22,222) or the budget laptop average (33,787). MORE: Best Laptops for Kids - From Grade School to High School But it is slower compared with the category average (4:00). The Stream 11 took 6 minutes and 46 seconds to match 65,000 names and addresses on our Excel test, which beat the VivoBook's time (7:58). The average pulls scores from laptops like the Acer Aspire E 15, which boast a much more powerful Core i3-8130U CPU accompanied by 6GB of RAM. To no one's surprise, the $167 Stream 11 couldn't overcome the budget laptop average (4,011). On the Geekbench 4 overall performance benchmark, the Stream 11 scored 3,501, which surpasses the 2017 Stream 11's Celeron N3060 CPU (2,023) and the VivoBook's Celeron N3350 processor (2,680).
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