Confidently complete projects with the latest technology including a powerful AMD Ryzen processor, fast memory, and plenty of storage. However, It’s not going to win design awards for all the plastic it uses and the screen is weak if you have used IPS displays. Battery life is average at best so you will need to be near a charging point. Difficult to Upgrade – HP has made it vastly difficult to open up the maintenance lid to upgrade the components without damaging the rubber feet. Wouldn’t have taken much to re-design the cover to slide off with a few screws instead. With only a 256GB SSD installed and cheap SSD prices, it would have been nice to be able to replace this with a 512GB or 1TB SSD easily. Popular with business customers and home users, this is a durable, lightweight and fast-working computer.

This review model is powered by an AMD Ryzen 3 2200U CPU with 8GB DDR4 memory and a 256GB M.2 SATA SSD. This combination creates a responsive laptop comparable to an i5-7200U. Great for office work, Internet browsing, light video and photo editing. It’s also perfectly usable for development and programming on like Android Studio.

Performance - Sufficient for office and Internet use

We can't recommend buying the HP 255 G7 model that we have before us. An unsatisfactory configuration level meets a price that is too high.

The integrated AMD Radeon RX Vega 3 graphics card supports DirectX 12 and is comparable to Intel’s UHD 620. Casual gaming is fine with the Vega 3 under low settings and 720P. For example, you can play Apex Legends at 35fps with low settings but don’t expect the 255 G7 to play X-Plane 11 or Far Cry 5 anytime soon. No surprise at this price point, the 255 G7 is mainly made of durable plastic. Generally it’s sturdy all round apart from the display lid which could do with more protection. Bending a bit too much for my likely. To some the design is a little too bland to others it’s just a laptop to work on. The 255 G7 weights 1.78kg helped by the expanse of plastic, ok for moving around now and again.This notebook is ready to connect to all your peripherals and is designed to fit the needs of business with an RJ-45 port and HDMI port.