- Cyber Security
Cyber Essentials Plus for Small Businesses: Is It Worth It?
13 Jun, 2026







£1387.00 inc. VAT
AI-generated summary
For £1,155 ex-VAT, the HP Pro x360 435 G10 is a decent “proper business hybrid” if you genuinely want a 13.3" 2‑in‑1 with touch and occasional tablet use. In day-to-day office life it’ll feel responsive, the screen is genuinely usable for meetings/trainings, and the Pro line tends to come with the kind of manageability and reliability IT teams expect. If you’re equipping a small workforce for mobile working—sales, field-facing admin, consultants who live in Teams/Outlook and occasionally mark up documents—this is the sort of device that earns its keep.
That said, I wouldn’t buy it for teams that only ever use it as a laptop on a desk. At this price, you can often get a more powerful clamshell or a larger storage/upgrade path for the money, and touchscreen + 2‑in‑1 hinges are often a “nice to have” rather than a daily requirement. Also, if you routinely run heavier workloads (lots of desktop apps, dev environments, virtualisation), you may outgrow a 13" thin-and-light faster than you think—especially with the limited local storage. So: buy it if the form factor matters to the user. If not, it’s easy to overpay.
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