![]() The screen is matte as well, and it's a personal choice if you prefer this style or a glossy setup. Snapping apps - one of Windows 8's primary features - at this low resolution means that the snapped app takes up 1/4 of the screen when at its smallest setting. While this post was written entirely on the Stream 11, the low resolution made it hard to fit everything I needed on the screen (specs, images, ect). ![]() The low resolution also makes it quite difficult to work on the device as well. Off-angle viewing is quite poor and even modest adjustments to the angle of the screen result in colors becoming significantly muted and indistinguishable. The 1366x768 display is marginal for a laptop display, even at $200 you can tell that a lot of corners were cut when it came to choosing a screen. The travel distance for cursor clicks is very shallow, and what makes it worse, is when the button does engage, the trackpad continues to travel down after the button has been activated which means that the action engages before you finishing pressing down. The trackpad is a low point on this device, with engagement for left and right clicking being mushy at best. The keyboard deck is covered in a smooth material that has tiny dots on it that is also a bit shiny as well. The keys are textured as well but the travel distance when pressing down on the letters is a bit short. Our machine is clad in bright blue plastic which makes it stand out and the contrasting white keys on the keyboard give it a clean look. The display does not support touch but at this price, besides tablets, nearly every device in this class does not support touch, so we wouldn't consider this a negative for the Stream 11. ![]() The 1366x768 display caps off the low end specs and asserts that this is a casual use machine - and for $200, you should not expect anything more.Īs for ports? The device pleasantly surprised us with all of its options, which include two USB ports (1 x 3.0 and 1 x 2.0), a full size HDMI port, full size SD card reader, headphone/mic jack and finally a Kensington lock slot. But with an Intel Celeron processor running at 2.16Ghz, 2GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, the specs are entry level. The Stream 11 is a small machine with an 11-inch screen and - weighing 2.74 pounds - it is nearly identical to the netbooks of yesterday. ![]()
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