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£761.06 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
For £634.10 ex-VAT, this ASUS “TWR” desktop is a sensible buy if you just need a reliable office/processing machine that’s unlikely to annoy you day to day. The Ryzen-class setup with plenty of memory and a solid-state drive tends to feel snappy for typical business workloads—Microsoft 365, browser-heavy tasks, light design work, spreadsheeting, and general file/print duties. The 1-year warranty is also fine for a budget workstation, as long as your organisation isn’t relying on that device to be “mission critical” without internal support coverage.
That said, I’d hesitate if you’re expecting high-end graphics work or heavy creative/render workloads, because this class of machine won’t stretch as far as pricier tower/workstation builds. Also, with preloaded Windows, you want to confirm what your IT team actually needs around licensing/driver management—some resellers bundle software that you’ll just end up managing anyway. Overall: buy it for standard business users and small teams who want good everyday performance per pound; skip it if you need GPU muscle or longer warranty coverage and don’t have a strong in-house support model.

Lenovo
Lenovo ThinkCentre M75q Gen 5 12RQ - Tiny Ryzen 5 8500GE / up to 5 GHz - RAM 8 GB - SSD 256 GB - TCG Opal Encryption 2, NVMe - Radeon 740M - Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6E), Bluetooth 5.3 - Win 11 Pro - monitor: none - keyboard: UK - black - Lenovo TopSeller - with 1 Year Lenovo Premier Support, CO2 Offset 0.5 ton (2nd Gen)

Lenovo
Lenovo ThinkCentre M70q Gen 5 12TD - Tiny Core i5 i5-14400T / up to 4.5 GHz - RAM 16 GB - SSD 512 GB - UHD Graphics 730 - Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6E), Bluetooth 5.3 - Win 11 Pro - monitor: none - keyboard: UK - black - TopSeller - with 3 Years Lenovo Onsite Support + 1 Year Lenovo Premier Support + CO2 Offset 0.5 ton (2nd Gen)

HP
HP Elite 800 G9 - SFF Core i5 12500 / up to 4.6 GHz - RAM 16 GB - SSD 512 GB - NVMe - DVD-Writer - UHD Graphics 770 - Gigabit Ethernet - Win 11 Pro - monitor: none - keyboard: UK - with HP 3 years Next Business Day Onsite Hardware Support for Desktops

HP
HP EliteDesk 8 G1i AI - AI PC - mini desktop Core Ultra 7 265T / up to 5.3 GHz - vPro Enterprise - RAM 16 GB - SSD 512 GB - NVMe - Intel Graphics - Gigabit Ethernet, IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6), Bluetooth 5.4, IEEE 802.11be (Wi-Fi 7) - Win 11 Pro - monitor: none - keyboard: UK - jack black - Smart Buy