32GB RAM from $720.
Two units in this tier ship with 32GB DDR4 standard — the ThinkPad T14s and HP EliteBook 840 G8 i7. Run 30+ Chrome tabs, multiple VMs, Photoshop and Slack with headroom. A new $700 consumer laptop ships with 8GB soldered.
Premium business-grade HP EliteBook, Lenovo ThinkPad and Dell Latitude. Core i5–i7, up to 32GB RAM, 256–512GB NVMe. Touch + 2-in-1 options. Originally $2,200–$2,800 when new. 12-month warranty.
Lenovo's flagship 14″ ultraportable — carbon-fibre top, sub-1.2kg, the keyboard travel writers obsess over. Originally $2,799 when new.
HP EliteBook x360 830 G7 — the compact business 2-in-1. 13″ touchscreen, 360° hinge, Core i5 quad-core, 16GB RAM. Brand-new 512GB NVMe SSD installed in-house. 1.4kg. For the consultant who packs light.
Dell Latitude 7400 2-in-1 — the premium business convertible. 14″ FHD touchscreen, Core i7-8665U, 16GB RAM. Designed for the executive who pivots between presenter, signatory and sketcher. Originally $2,299 when new.
The T14s with double the standard memory. Intel Core i7-10510U, 32GB DDR4, 512GB NVMe SSD. For the power user juggling 30+ browser tabs, multiple Office docs, VS Code and Slack — with headroom. The legendary ThinkPad keyboard. 14″ FHD IPS.
The newest unit in this lineup. HP EliteBook x360 1040 G9 with Intel's 12th-gen i5-1235U — 10 cores, 12 threads, LPDDR5 memory, 14″ WUXGA (1920×1200, 16:10) touchscreen, 360° convertible. Released 2022. Still being sold new for $2,800+.
Top of this tier. HP EliteBook 840 G8 with Intel's 11th-gen i7-1165G7 Tiger Lake, 32GB DDR4 and a brand-new 512GB NVMe SSD installed by us. The corporate executive's machine — originally over $2,400 when new.
Why a 2–4 year-old executive laptop outperforms a brand-new $700 consumer model on every metric — and why corporate IT departments have known this for years.
No upsell traps. Below is what's actually inside this lineup — including four spec advantages that put new $700 consumer laptops to shame.
Two units in this tier ship with 32GB DDR4 standard — the ThinkPad T14s and HP EliteBook 840 G8 i7. Run 30+ Chrome tabs, multiple VMs, Photoshop and Slack with headroom. A new $700 consumer laptop ships with 8GB soldered.
Read 3,500 MB/s. Cold boot under 12 seconds. Never eMMC, never SATA. Two units ship with brand-new 512GB NVMe drives.
Touch + 360° hinge: EliteBook x360 830 G7, EliteBook x360 1040 G9, Dell Latitude 7400 2-in-1.
X1 Carbon at 1.13kg. EliteBooks at 1.3–1.4kg.
Enterprise security baseline. Windows 11 Pro standard on every unit, never Home.
Battery health, thermals, hinges, ports, fingerprint reader, IR camera, screen uniformity. ISO 9001-certified process. Every defect disclosed honestly — see the X1 Carbon listing above.
Tracked + insured. Sydney metro 2–3 days. No postcode surcharges, even Tasmania & NT.
Picked up the HP EliteBook 840 G8 with 32GB RAM at $780 for my consulting practice. The same machine the firm spec'd at $2,400+ new. Saved $1,600 per seat for our 4 new hires. Genuinely indistinguishable from new.
X1 Carbon at $450 — yes, one USB-C port isn't working, but I have two others and I've never used the missing one. Sub-1.2kg, all-day battery, the legendary keyboard. Couldn't justify $2,000+ for the same machine new.
EliteBook x360 1040 G9 for my architecture firm — 12th gen, touchscreen, pen-ready for site markups. Pivot from CAD to client presentations in one click. $720 vs $2,800 new. No-brainer.
Equipping 5+ seats? We do bulk pricing, custom configs, and pre-deployment setup (Windows 11 Pro joined to your domain, BitLocker enabled, asset-tagged). Free setup for orders 10+.
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