# HP Essential

HP Essential is a trademark name used by HP Inc. (formerly Hewlett-Packard) to denote their own line of entry-level, inexpensive laptops produced since 2009. Products under the "Essential" moniker include the HP Laptop series and HP Notebook series, as well as products simply branded as "HP". A similar line called HP Stream consisted of low-end consumer-oriented laptops and tablets. All HP Essential products use the Microsoft Windows operating system.
The HP Essential line is slowly being phased out in favor of the revived OmniBook brand of laptops, due to a corporate streamlining of products that happened in 2024.

## Models
### HP Laptop

* HP Laptop 17t (Intel N200, Intel Core i5/5, Intel Core i7/7)
* HP Laptop 17z (AMD Athlon Gold, AMD Ryzen 5, AMD Ryzen 7)
* HP Laptop 15t (Intel Core i5/5, Intel Core Ultra 5, Intel Core i7/7)
* HP Laptop 15z (AMD Athlon Silver, AMD Ryzen 5)
* HP Laptop 14t (Intel Celeron, Intel N200, Intel Core i3/3, Intel Core i5/5, Intel Core Ultra 5)
* HP Laptop 14z (AMD Athlon Silver, AMD Ryzen 5)

### HP Notebook

* HP Notebook 15 (2020) - (AMD A6)
* HP Notebook 15 (2016) - (Intel Core i5)

### HP
#### 200 Series

HP 255 notebook is a budget laptop. The latest (as of 2023) ninth generation model (G9) is equipped with AMD Ryzen 3, 5 or 7 mobile processors.

#### 400 Series

HP 450 notebook comes in a choice of Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium, and Intel Core i3.

#### 500 Series

HP 520 notebook, a low-end business laptop with either Core Duo T2400 or other Celeron M processors, and either with Windows Vista Business or Basic preinstalled, or if chosen, Red Hat 10.

#### 600 Series

HP 620 notebook from 2010 featured a dual-core Intel Pentium CPU.
HP 630 was released in 2011 with a Intel Pentium P6200 dual-core processor. The HP 635 instead had an AMD Zacate E-350.

## HP Stream series

The HP Stream series was first introduced in November 2014.

### First generation comparison

| | Stream 10 | Stream 11 | Stream 11 Pro | Stream 13 | Stream 14 | Stream 14 Pro | Stream x360 | Stream 7 | Stream 8 |
| Type | Laptop | Laptop | Laptop | Laptop | Laptop | Laptop | 2-in-1 | Tablet | Tablet |
| Display | | 11.6" | 11.6" | | 14.1" | | 11.6" | 7" 1280×800 | 8" 1280×800 |
| CPU | Intel Celeron | Intel Celeron | Intel Celeron N2840 | Intel Celeron | Intel Celeron | Intel Celeron | Intel Celeron or Pentium | Intel Atom Z73735G | Intel Atom Z73735G |
| Memory | 4 GB | 4 GB | 4 GB | 4 GB | 4 GB | 4 GB | 4 GB | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| Storage | 500 GB | 500 GB | 500 GB | 1 TB | 1 TB | 1 TB | 500 GB | 32 GB | 32 GB |
| HDMI ports | No | Yes | Yes | | | | | | |
| USB ports | USB | 2x USB 3.0 | 1x USB 3.0 | 1x USB 3.0, 2x USB 2.0 | | | | | |
| SD card slot | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | | |
| Ethernet port | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | | |

### Laptops
#### HP Stream 11 Pro

The first generation Stream 11 Pro was introduced in January 2015, with the same 1366x768 11.6-inch display as Stream 11, but with a different keyboard.
Since then more generations of the 11 Pro have been released:
* G1 (2015)
* G2 (2015)
* G3 (2017)
* G4 (2017)
* G5 (2020)

#### HP Stream 13

The first HP Stream 13 came with a 2.16 GHz Intel Celeron N2480 processor and Intel HD graphics, retailing for $230.

#### HP Stream 14

HP Stream 14 came out in 2014 with a AMD A4 Micro-6400T APU (model no. series 14-Z0).
An updated version came in 2016 (model no. series 14-AX, 14-CB?) with 1.6 GHz Intel Celeron N3060.
Another Stream 14 revision (model no. series 14-DS) was released in 2020.

#### HP Stream x360

The Stream x360 is a 2-in-1 convertible that came in 11.6" (model. 11-P0) and 13.3" variants when released in 2015. It had a Intel Celeron dual-core 2.16 GHz N2840 chip with 2 GB of RAM.
A second generation (11-AA) was released in 2016 with CPU upgraded to Celeron N3060.

### Tablets
#### HP Stream 7

The HP Stream 7 is a tablet computer that runs the Microsoft Corporation's Windows operating system. It was announced on September 29, 2014.

#### HP Stream 8

The HP Stream 8 is a tablet computer designed by Hewlett-Packard that runs the Microsoft Corporation's Windows operating system.