HP ProBook 4 G1iR Intel Core 5 120U Laptop 40.6 cm (16") WUXGA 16 GB DDR5-SDRAM 256 GB SSD Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) Windows 11 Pro Silver

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The HP ProBook 16" (this 4 G1iR) is the kind of workhorse you buy for “it just needs to work” days—Windows Pro for managed fleets, solid build for business use, and the newer Wi‑Fi 6E means it’ll cope better in busy office environments. For £846.31 ex‑VAT, the value is strongest if you want a business laptop that won’t make your IT team regret the purchase and you’re mainly doing standard knowledge-work: Office, Teams, browser-heavy stuff, light line-of-business apps. In that scenario it’s a sensible buy, and the 16" screen is genuinely nicer for spreadsheets and side-by-side documentation than smaller displays.

I’d hesitate if your goal is maximum performance per pound or lots of local storage/media work. The price is okay for a business-branded machine, but it’s not “budget refresh” pricing—so if you’re expecting this to replace a beefier desktop for heavier workloads (data processing, big engineering tools, heavy virtualisation), you might feel the limitations sooner than you want. Also worth sanity-checking: with 256 GB, any company with lots of local files or offline work may end up hungry for additional storage (cloud, external drives, or upgrades). If that’s you, either budget for storage strategy up front or look for a configuration closer to your real usage.