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Cyber Essentials Plus for Financial Services Firms
27 Jun, 2026







£1775.24 inc. VAT
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The HP EliteBook 6 G1iR with a Core 5 (120U) is the kind of machine you buy when you want “it just works” for business users and don’t want to think too hard about it. EliteBooks generally hold up well in managed environments—solid build, good dock/port behaviour, and the usual business-grade HP tooling. For £1479.37 ex-VAT, though, I’m a bit cautious: you’re paying a premium for the EliteBook badge, so this should only make sense if you value manageability, reliability, and a clean experience over squeezing every last pound of performance.
Who should buy it? Office/knowledge workers, field staff with docking needs, and IT teams who standardise on HP and want consistency across a fleet. Who should *not*? If it’s just for basic email/Teams/casework and no real corporate IT features are used, you can often find better value in cheaper business laptops with similar day-to-day performance. Also, if your users run heavier workloads (design tools, large datasets, constant multitasking with CPU-heavy apps), you may feel the “Core 5 U-series” ceiling sooner than you’d like—at that price, I’d expect an easier upgrade path or a more performance-focused spec from the same budget.
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