HP EliteOne 870 G9 Intel® Core™ i9 i9-14900 68.6 cm (27") 2560 x 1440 pixels Touchscreen All-in-One PC 64 GB DDR5-SDRAM 1 TB SSD Windows 11 Pro Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) Silver

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At £3,250 ex-VAT, the HP EliteOne 870 G9 is the kind of “buy it once, cry once” all-in-one that makes sense if you’re standardising premium desktop infrastructure across an organisation. The EliteOne line is typically reliable in corporate deployments and, crucially, it’s built for office realities: less desk clutter, proper business-grade management, and a screen that actually looks good for spreadsheets and day-to-day work. If you have leadership/finance/engineering users who need a powerful workstation without a separate tower, this is genuinely a clean setup—and it’ll hold its own for heavy multitasking and long uptimes.

That said, I wouldn’t recommend this to most teams at that price. For purely “office apps + email + browser” users, it’s expensive overkill versus a smaller, cheaper all-in-one or even a standard desktop with a separate monitor. Also, because it’s an all-in-one, any future hardware repair/replacement is usually less painless (and potentially pricier) than with desktops where you can swap parts easily. So: buy it if you’re paying for premium, centralised IT manageability, a polished user experience, and you have the budget to support it; skip it if this is going to end up as “just Teams and Outlook” for the majority of staff.