HP ZBook Firefly G11 Intel Core Ultra 7 155H Mobile workstation 35.6 cm (14") Touchscreen WUXGA 64 GB DDR5-SDRAM 1 TB SSD NVIDIA RTX A500 Wi-Fi 6E (802.11ax) Windows 11 Pro AI Workstation, AI PC Silver

Product Overview

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For £2,473 ex-VAT you’re paying for a “just small enough to be portable, still serious underneath” workstation. The HP ZBook Firefly G11 is aimed at people who actually move around—consultants, analysts, smaller creative/engineering teams—yet still need stability and decent graphics for real work (not just slide decks). The standout in real-world terms is the balance: you get the workstation reliability/management vibe, a bright touch screen for day-to-day productivity, and enough GPU to handle AI-assisted workflows and typical professional tasks without feeling underpowered. If you’re running lots of heavier apps, dealing with media, CAD-adjacent work, data prep, or using AI tooling that isn’t satisfied by integrated graphics, this is the kind of machine that won’t make you resent it by week two.

That said, it’s not automatically the “best value” workstation for everyone. If your use is mostly office, light dev, email, and browser-based tools, this price is overkill. And if you’re doing genuinely heavy GPU workloads, you’ll usually get more performance per pound with a bigger chassis or a dedicated workstation setup—this is about portability first, not brute-force throughput. My honest recommendation: buy it if your team needs a portable workstation that’s demonstrably built for professional software and you’ll use that touchscreen/graphics/AI-ready angle regularly. Otherwise, spec it down or look at a non-ZBook business laptop plus a cheaper GPU-capable option—because at this budget, “maybe it’ll be useful” is rarely a good procurement strategy.