Which HP Pro to buy thru school for BYOD?

Buttocks on 23/11/2022 - 18:10
Last edited 23/11/2022 - 18:15

School BYOD laptop. Want a bit of help choosing between the 2 HP Pro below. These HP Pro laptops represent the low end of available laptops in BYOD program but is really more than what is needed atm and I am just taking advantage of BYOD 3 year onsite warranty and accidental damage insurance.

1.HP ProBook 445 G9 Notebook
AMD Ryzen™ 5 processor- 5625U
Windows 10 Pro (available through downgrade rights from Windows 11 Pro)
14" diagonal HD display
AMD Radeon™ Graphics
256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ SSD
8 GB DDR4-3200 MHz RAM (1 x 8 GB)
1.38 kg
$899.00 BYOD price.
Full specs
https://www.hp.com/au-en/shop/hp-probook-445-14-inch-g9-note…

2.HP ProBook 440 G9 Notebook
Intel® Core™ i5 processor - 12 gen
Windows 10 Pro (available through downgrade rights from Windows 11 Pro)
14" diagonal HD display
Intel® Graphics – Iris® Xᵉ Capable (Require Dual Channel Memory)
256 GB PCIe® NVMe™ SSD
16 GB DDR4-3200 MHz RAM (1 x 16 GB)
1.38 kg
$1099.00 BYOD price
Full specs
https://www.hp.com/au-en/shop/hp-probook-440-14-inch-g9-note…
The unit in link has 512 gb ssd

I was all set to buy the cheaper ryzen as I have read here about better battery life, runs cooler etc but I am wondering if the iris capable graphics are worth it…I interpret that I have to buy more ram for it to work which is a bit ott.

Appart from school work son likes to edit his fortnite videos and post to youtube and play around with graphics and bit of coding as he learns. He also likes gaming which is not good idea for school device…the intel equipped probook would not support fortnite would it?

Computing

Comments

  • netjock on 23/11/2022 - 18:18
    +2

    Buy the AMD and upgrade your own ram and SSD.

    • Buttocks on 23/11/2022 - 18:24

      Thanks for comment…can you expand on your thoughts.

      • netjock on 23/11/2022 - 18:30
        +1

        Specs say extra ram slot

        +$32 for 8GB if you are comfortable DIY Umart

        I misread about the SSD (thinking second unit has 512gb SSD, and SSD is like $50)

        Good luck

        • Buttocks on 23/11/2022 - 18:45

          I uderstood you miss read SSD…no biggy. Thanks for price guides, cheaper than I thought especially SSD. Have upgraded ram before they started to solder them. Never a SSD…I think I upgraded a HD once. Cheers.

  • altomic on 23/11/2022 - 18:23
    -1

    I bought an ACER A315-34 Laptop off marketplace for $180.
    the guy selling it used it for 3 hours for an exam.

  • Buttocks on 23/11/2022 - 18:24
    -4

    How is this helpfull

    • Buttocks on 23/11/2022 - 18:40
      -4

      A down vote says so much about you altomic

      • CrispyChrispy on 23/11/2022 - 19:15
        -2

        Lol what

        Someone else may have downvoted you because you didn't reply to altomic's comment, you made a new comment instead

      • iamherenow on 23/11/2022 - 22:30

        Chances are altomic didn't even read your comment, because you didn't reply to him…

  • baronorder on 23/11/2022 - 18:29
    +1

    Both are reasonable and the 12th gen mobiles are much more capable, cooler and nicer on battery than the old 11th gen intel units against the excellent Ryzen range so really it's really down to your personal preference as perf wise there is not a lot of difference. GPU wise there is not a lot in it and both units are capable of easier titles like Fortnite if you are happy running sane settings on it. Would highly recommend getting dual channel RAM for either if you want to play anything though…

    I would expect that both will be very similar price wise if equally spec'd

    • Buttocks on 23/11/2022 - 18:36

      Thank you baronorder…I have no idea if the iris intel graphics are anything special. So if CPU are similar performance the only real difference is the 16gb ram vrs 8gb. Personally I have had longer life out of AMD products.
      The SODIMM ram slots are not the soldered type?

      • baronorder on 23/11/2022 - 18:52
        +1

        Fairly certain they are a 2xSODIMM slot setup but I would just check before putting money down!
        Iris xe is just the newly updated version of Intel's IGPU and at the end of the day the GPU performance of both systems is heavily tied to the RAM bandwidth available to the system thus two SODIMM's will work a lot better than 1. In some benchmarks the AMD will come out on top, in others Xe does better.

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