HP launch $99 windows tablets and $199 laptops

Microsoft’s assault on Chromebooks and cheap Android
tablets is getting a significant boost from HP today. HP
is launching a 7-inch HP Stream 7 tablet for just $99,
and an 8-inch version for $149 in November. Both are
powered by Intel chipsets, but the company isn’t
revealing any additional specifications for this pair of
super low-cost Windows tablets. They’re likely to be
very low specification devices, but Microsoft is also
throwing in a year-long subscription to Office 365
Personal with 1TB of OneDrive storage and 60 minutes of
Skype calls each month. HP’s 8-inch tablet also
includes 200MB of free LTE data each month with no
contract for the life of the device.
Alongside the tablet options, HP is also launching two
new HP Stream laptops. There’s an 11.6-inch model with
a HD display, or a 13.3-inch version with optional touch
display. HP is using Intel’s Celeron processors in both,
so these won’t be high performance machines, but for
$199 for the HP Stream 11, and $229 for the HP Stream
13 they’re very low cost for basic computing needs.
Both have fanless designs, 32GB of flash storage, and an
Office 365 Personal subscription for a year. HP has
magenta and blue color options for both, and they
appear to be ideal machines to join a number of other
devices launching this holiday season as part of
Microsoft’s continued plan to kill off Chromebooks. HP
is also launching a 14-inch HP Stream laptop later this
month.