HP Poly Microsoft Teams Room Base Kit HP Mini PC with GC8 Cat5e Extender (ABU)

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At £1,842.50 ex-VAT, this “HP Poly Teams Room base kit + mini PC + Cat5e extender” is firmly in the “proper meeting room” budget, not the “quick Teams huddle” category. The good news: if you’ve got a room where you need reliable, no-fuss Microsoft Teams Rooms behaviour, HP Poly is one of the safer choices—solid audio/video ecosystem, sensible setup, and generally less drama than mixing-and-matching kit from different vendors. The Cat5e extender part is also the kind of boring detail that saves headaches in real installs where cable runs aren’t where you’d ideally put the compute.

Who should buy it: you’re a UK reseller/IT team, you’re deploying to a small number of rooms, and you want something you can install confidently with a repeatable outcome (and you value manageability and supportability more than lowest upfront cost). Who should *not* buy it: if you’re trying to outfit a casual/low-use room, or you only need “Teams on a screen” rather than a fully managed room system, this price will feel heavy—there are cheaper paths if you don’t need the full Teams Rooms experience. Also, sanity-check the rest of your room design (audio pickup, screen/room size, cabling constraints): this kind of kit is only great when the room environment matches what Teams Rooms is designed to do.