Ok, a friend of mine bought an HP stream 14. I can't believe these are still selling today even though they're unusable. OK, so specs wise it has a Celeron N4000, 4GB RAM (single channel), 64GB EMMC (the crappiest and slowest storage ever, even an HDD is better in my opinion), and beyond of all the crappyness, Windows 11. Man, it's rough. My main notebook, the Tecra A50, with a Celeron 4205u, 12GB DDR4 dual channel, 256GB M.2 SSD, sweeps the floor with the stream. My computer is faster in every single way, I usually open 7-8 tabs on edge and I've never had any issues or lags/slowdowns. Man this stream doing nothing uses 70% RAM, while my pc uses 2-5% only. HOW THE HELL IS THIS CRAPPY PIECE OF JUNK STILL ON THE MARKET??? WHY???? IT CAN'T EVEN PLAY 4K YOUTUBE UNLIKE MY PC. THESE ARE WORTHLESS!

Customer brought in a pink HP Notebook-17-by0005ds to our repair shop because the screen wasn't working. This device nearly broke me. So we plugged in an external monitor and the external monitor worked fine. We were able to browse the computers files and do everything you would normally on a computer. So we chucked it up to a driver issue because there was no visible damage to the LCD screen. The computer simply hadn't been used for many months and was laying around so many Windows updates simply failed. So we reinstalled Windows on that hard drive and that's when the problems started.

When we plugged in an external monitor again it would not connect to the external monitor no matter what we did. We downloaded HP support assist and downloaded all of the drivers for this device. Nothing we did would allow that computer with the original hard drive connect to an external monitor. We took the hard drive out and plugged it into a new laptop and the hard drive worked just fine. But when we used it with the pink HP it would not work even with an external display. Finally, we installed Windows on a SSD and put it in the pink HP. We then connected the external monitor to the computer with the SSD and we got the external monitor to work with the pink HP again but only with the SSD. Not the hard drive.

I find this so perplexing because the original hard drive worked with all the other laptops, so it wasn't the hard drive. The computer worked with an external monitor but only with an SSD with Windows installed and not the original hard drive. So it's not the motherboard. But why the hell would the hard drive not work with the original computer? The hard drive is a Seagate Mobile HDD 2TB.

Any ideas? Or resources to learn more? I am a new tech fresh out of school.