Is the hp stream 11 pro g2 notebook powerful enough for university online classes?

The hp stream 11 pro g2 notebook was manufactured by HP specifically for primary school students to rival Google Chromebooks. It is essentially a tablet processor stuffed inside a plastic laptop shell. For a university student it is a highly risky purchase. The biggest bottleneck is the internal hardware. The processor is usually a terribly weak Intel Celeron paired with only 2GB or 4GB of RAM. The most fatal flaw however is the storage. It uses 32GB of eMMC flash storage which is permanently soldered to the motherboard and CANNOT be upgraded. Windows 10 alone consumes about 25GB of that space. The moment Windows downloads a mandatory security update the storage will completely fill up paralyzing the laptop entirely.

To answer your question about university online classes: The hp stream 11 pro g2 notebook will struggle massively. If your daughter opens a Zoom video call and simultaneously opens two Chrome tabs to access her university portal the 2GB of RAM will max out instantly. The Zoom video will stutter freeze and the audio will become robotic. Submitting assignments on heavy web portals will be an agonizingly slow process. This laptop is only suitable for typing basic Word documents offline. If you are on a strict budget you are vastly better off buying an older used corporate laptop like a Dell Latitude E5440 for the same price. It might look old and heavy but a 4th Gen Core i5 will destroy the HP Stream in every performance metric.

I made the mistake of buying this for my sister in university because it was cheap and pink. It was a disaster. She could not even install Microsoft Office because the 32GB storage was completely full from day one.

It is completely useless for Zoom. The webcam is terrible and the processor cannot handle live video encoding. Her lecturers kept complaining that her video was frozen. We had to sell it for scraps.

The only good thing about the HP Stream is the battery life. Because the processor is so weak it draws zero power so the battery lasts 8 hours easily. But 8 hours of battery life is useless if the laptop is too slow to actually work on.