HP Pro mt440 G3 Intel® Celeron® 7305 35.6 cm (14") Full HD 8 GB DDR4-SDRAM 256 GB SSD Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) Windows 10 IoT Enterprise Silver

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At £895 ex-VAT, an HP Pro mt440 G3 with a Celeron and a modest SSD is not what I’d call “thin-client bargain territory.” The good news is you’re buying into HP’s business hardware and a sensible form factor for light work: browser-based apps, virtual desktop sessions, office tooling, that kind of day-to-day. Wi‑Fi 6E also makes sense if you’ve got modern access points and want stable performance without dragging cables everywhere. If you’re rolling out a managed VDI/remote-app environment and you want endpoints that are easy to standardise and keep locked down, this class of device can be fine.

That said, the Celeron will be your limiter if users ever expect more than the usual “thin-client” workload (local multitasking, heavy web, media-heavy pages, lots of local processes). In a lot of UK workplaces, you’d get better value by either spending a bit more for a CPU tier that feels snappier under load, or by looking at alternatives that cost less for the same remote-desktop purpose. I’d only buy this at this price if (1) it’s part of a wider standard HP rollout with licensing/management already sorted, and (2) you’re confident the apps run mostly server-side. Otherwise, £895 is a tough pill for what is essentially entry-level compute.