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[fun fact: at this point, the laptop had already been thrown out the window of a moving car onto asphalt in a parking lot in the rain]

[see this video]

also heres the close ups of the motherboard 

it sure is a laptop motherboard (DA0P9MB16D0 REV: D)

Thrift Store Laptop

...suffering to put it back together, likely breaking some things, and having a screw left over, it workie!

hp made the antichrist (rant)

i havent complained about this on here yet, so

HP 14t-bs000 laptop

in the same market as the HP Stream laptop, this laptop (which doesnt have a product name for some reason)... fucking sucks. so much.

i used this piece of shit (which im currently typing this on) nearly every day for at least a year, so im comfortable with saying this is the worst computer ive ever used.

for all you tech people out there, here are the specs:

HP 14t-bs000 1DN87AV laptop

Intel Celeron N3060 @1.60 GHz, 2 cores, 2 threads

4GB DDR3L-1600 PC3L-12800S Non-ECC RAM 

32GB eMMC storage

Intel HD 400 Graphics 1GB RAM 1366x768 60Hz display 

Windows 10 Home 

for those of you in the know, you might already see the problem(s)

so

using this laptop every day was hell

imagine being in 2020

and doing school online

alas, this computer is all you have

what do you do? suffer

this laptop is slow. extremely slow.

i can hear the intel celeron (intel celery) in this laptop begging for mercy every time i power it on

this processor is worse than one from 17 years ago (10 years in 2017)

im not kidding

this (2017) celeron n3060 performs worse than the (2007) core 2 duo i found in a $6 pc i got at the thrift store

and it sure as hell feels that way

you better have patience and a lot of it

half the time i cant tell if its actually doing anything

this celery stick of a cpu makes browsing the internet a pain

which is a problem because that's what this computer was made to do

[on a slightly unrelated note, the keyboard randomly stopped working while i was typing that]

much like the cpu, the ram also sucks. 4gb is barely enough to run windows 10. it functions, and i appreciate that hp lets you upgrade it up to like 8gb, but its still not good. 

the screen.

no.

ok so, congratulations hp, you somehow invented the worst screen ever. good job.

it has god awful viewing angles, and i use "viewing" in jest because you cant see this screen

for some reason, hp decided it would be a good idea to have a glossy screen, making this more of a tinted mirror

supposedly, this makes for better colors, but that doesnt matter WHEN I CANT SEE THE GOD DAMN SCREEN

hp also supposedly made a matte finish screen for this line of laptops, but i cant find a single one

so yeah, screen sucks, but it is a very light annoyance compared to the storage

32 GB of storage. Need I say more?

32 GB is nothing. I shit you not, the damn operating system takes up more than 2/3 of the storage. That is unacceptable.

If you want this computer to be usable in any way, you need an SD card or an SSD (we'll get back to that in a minute).

I'm sorry, is it too much to ask HP Inc (ranked #63 on the Fortune 500 list) for a laptop that's usable out of the box? It's fucked up that you can sell laptops with that little storage in the modern day. 32GB is already awful, but to only have roughly 10 GB actually usable? You can install a couple apps and download a few files before you're completely out of space. At a certain point, you can't update Windows or even browse the internet until you clear up some storage. Was 64GB too much to ask for? Even that isn't a lot, but it's usable! You can install things without immediately running out of space, a concept HP clearly hasn't heard of.

"Yeah, the laptop sucks, but who gives a shit? It's a bottom-of-the-barrel laptop, what did you expect?" I EXPECT IT TO BE FUCKING USABLE. The average person doesn't know much about computers. They see a low price and immediately bite, not knowing they just opened a pit into hell. They start using it, notice it's extremely slow, learn they can't download shit, give up, and leave it in a closet for 20 years.

I understand that this laptop, $150 to $250 when new, was not expected to be good. I know. I'm just asking for usability. The fact that HP thought it was acceptable to sell this thing is further proof that HP fucking sucks. The very existence of this laptop defies God. This laptop's manufacture infamously lead to the Third Crusade. This laptop is the Antichrist.

ok ok ok

yes

im being overly dramatic

i know

but

i cannot stress enough how horrible this laptop is to use

there are school laptops better than this

in fact

I have used at least 2 different school laptops that are better to use than this 

Dell Latitude 3190

Intel Pentium Silver N5030 @1.10GHz, 4 cores, 4 threads

8GB DDR4-2400 RAM

128GB eMMC

Intel UHD Graphics 605

Windows 10 Education

Comparing this laptop to the HP laptop is like comparing a desk to a [pile of rusty] nails

This Dell laptop is so god damn usable

like

it has storage!

it has ram!

it has a processor!

if you removed all of the school web filters and whatnot, you'd get a low end (but more than usable!) laptop

and they just gave these out! [i got one for free for graduating, which i'm currently using to add this post to my website]

like i said, this hp laptop is worse than a school laptop

another school laptop

Dell Chromebook 3110

Intel Celeron N4500 @1.10GHz, 2 cores, 2 threads

4GB LPDDR4-2933 RAM

32GB eMMC

ChromeOS

while yes, these are basically the specs of the HP laptop, it doesn't feel that way

when they stole the other dell laptop from us and gave us this thing as a consolation prize, I was pissed

however, it feels fine, mostly because it's a chromebook

chromeos takes up less resources, less space, doesn't need anything fancy

plus, i think intel recently improved their celeron processors so that they aren't outperformed by decades-old processors (i dont have a source for this)

in any case, it still feels usable

This is not good for HP. In popular culture, school laptops are stereotypically fucking atrocious. Yet, somehow, HP managed to make something worse.

there are computers from 10+ years ago for half the price on ebay that are leagues ahead of this sinful pile of plastic

ok

redeeming qualities:

it technically functions

and its easy to work on

which is a good thing

because if you actually plan on using this rattly lump of lead and depression, you definitely want to upgrade some things

this laptop comes from a line of better laptops, so luckily theres a lot of easy upgradability

for one, all of the screws are easily accessible and the bottom of the laptop comes off relatively easily, plus it has an easily removable battery

for two, half of the laptop comes highlighted in blank

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