HP EliteBook G10 Intel® Core™ i5 i5-1335U Laptop 35.6 cm (14") WUXGA 8 GB DDR5-SDRAM 256 GB SSD Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) Windows 11 Pro Silver

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If you’re looking at this HP EliteBook G10 with an i5 and 8GB RAM for £1329.79 ex-VAT, my honest take is: it’s a “nice spec, pricing mismatch” situation for most businesses. EliteBooks are solid for day-to-day fleet reliability, and the build/management features tend to be genuinely good if you’re buying for staff who actually carry laptops around. But with only 8GB RAM and a smaller SSD, you’re likely to hit the ceiling sooner than you’d like—especially if people are running multiple browser tabs, Teams/Zoom, Office with heavier files, or any line-of-business app plus browser. At this price, I’d expect 16GB as the baseline for a current-gen i5 business laptop.

Who should buy it? Smaller teams with light workloads (email, Office, basic web apps) and customers who value durability and IT manageability more than headroom. Who should *not* buy it? Anyone expecting multi-year comfort for mixed workloads, anyone with “browser + comms + apps” as the norm, or anyone who will regret it after 12–18 months. If you can get a configuration with more memory (and preferably more storage) for similar money—or negotiate closer to a mid-range business price—then it becomes a much easier recommendation.