HP Elite Desk 705 G5 Desktop Mini
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PRICE £487 (£584 inc VAT)
from store.hp.com/uk
If you want to reduce your PC’s power and physical footprint, and the PrimeMini 5 (see p56) is too punch on price, HP hopes to lure you with its EliteDesk 705 G5. This is the fifth generation of HP’s compact PC and it comes equipped with your choice of Intel or AMD processors. The Intel version is called the EliteDesk 800, while the AMD is the 705.
I suspect this year will see the appearance). These are twice as fast at certain tasks, but the 3000 series on offer with the EliteDesk 705 are more than fast enough for office duties. For instance, the Ryzen 5 Pro 3400GE in our test machine scored 101 in our benchmarks and 2,869 in the Geekbench 5 multicore test.
