HP Pro 290 G9 Intel® Core™ i5 i5-12400 8 GB DDR4-SDRAM 256 GB SSD Windows 11 Pro Tower PC Black

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The HP Pro 290 G9 is one of those “good office workhorse, nothing fancy” machines, and that’s the point. At **£759.85 ex-VAT**, it’s reasonably priced *if* you’re actually buying it for standard business use: email, MS Office, browser-heavy admin work, light file work, and general day-to-day office tasks. HP’s Pro line usually plays nicely in the real world—reliability tends to be solid, drivers/firmware are straightforward, and it’s the kind of PC your IT team won’t dread deploying across a fleet.

That said, I wouldn’t buy it blindly if your users are doing anything more demanding than office apps. With only **8 GB of memory** and a **256 GB SSD**, you’ll feel the pinch sooner than you’d like as browsers, Teams/Zoom, and modern documents get bigger—especially in Windows 11 where background processes add up. If you’re standardising for lots of knowledge-worker desktops, I’d strongly consider whether you can get a version with more RAM/storage or factor in upgrades (if they’re available and practical for your model). For light office roles and businesses that value manageability over peak performance, it’s a sensible purchase; for teams who multitask heavily or run memory-hungry workloads, it’s likely not great value.