HP Pro SFF 290 G9 Intel® Core™ i5 i5-13500 8 GB DDR4-SDRAM 512 GB SSD Windows 11 Pro PC Black

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At £829.82 ex-VAT, the HP Pro SFF 290 G9 with an i5-13500 and 512GB SSD looks like a pretty sensible “business default” desktop—quiet-ish, dependable HP hardware, and Windows 11 Pro is exactly what UK companies want for licensing/management. It’s a good fit for office workloads: Microsoft 365, Teams/Zoom, light-to-medium data work, general admin, and the kind of day-to-day tasks where stability and manageability matter more than squeezing out every last bit of performance. If you’re outfitting multiple users, this is the sort of machine that tends to cause fewer headaches than bargain-bin kit.

That said, I’d pause because 8GB RAM is the main weak point at this price. You’ll feel it quickly in modern office use (browser tabs, Teams, Outlook, Excel files, background updates). In practice, you’ll either be living close to the limit or paying extra later via upgrades. So: buy it if your use is genuinely light and you can confirm (or plan for) easy RAM expansion. Don’t buy it if you expect multi-tab browsing, heavier spreadsheets, lots of apps open at once, or you want “set and forget” longevity without upgrading.