Which isn't much of a stretch at all.

my very basic and rarely used hp laptop (its the cheapest available) has recently stated it requires a windows 10 update. "Cool, please go ahead and update yourself" i say. It came back and announced it was capable of taking the update but was lacking some of the disk space required for the update (8GB)

hmm interesting. Given that i've not stored much of anything, nor installed anything extra above what it came with, im wondering how it is that its lacking the space for a required update.

I've now deleted everything that i don't require, and a few non essential things it came with like games etc, and its still short a gig and a half of the required space for the update.

is there some sort of secret handshake im missing? Or have i got exactly what i paid for? Essentially i bought it solely to do a bit of paperwork and watch youtube.

Whats left on there is less than what it started with...