HP ProBook 465 G11 AMD Ryzen™ 5 7535U Laptop 40.6 cm (16") WUXGA 8 GB DDR5-SDRAM 256 GB SSD Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) Windows 11 Pro Silver

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For £932 ex-VAT, the HP ProBook 465 G11 is the kind of business laptop that *usually* makes sense when you want something reliable, quiet-ish, and easy to manage without paying “premium ultrabook” money. The Ryzen 5 7535U is more than enough for typical office workloads—Teams, browsers with a dozen tabs, Office/Google work apps, light admin work, spreadsheet-heavy days—so you shouldn’t feel held back day to day. The big win with this class of ProBook is the serviceability/IT friendliness: it’s built to be deployed and maintained in real environments, not just dazzled in a showroom.

That said, I’d be a bit picky before buying in bulk. The 8 GB RAM and 256 GB storage are the two things that can quietly limit you over time, especially if your users run multiple collaboration tools, browser stacks, or heavier internal apps. If you’re issuing this to people who will keep it for 3–5 years, you may end up regretting the low headroom (or paying again to upgrade later). If your users are mostly “email + web + standard business apps,” and you’re comfortable topping up storage/RAM if needed, it’s a decent value. If you expect power users, lots of virtualisation/VDI-like workloads, or long lifecycles with minimal upgrades, I’d look for a variant with more memory and a larger drive to avoid downtime and re-buys.