Many people don’t need the latest MacBook Pro with its $4,000 sticker shock but they also can’t do real work on a $300 Chromebook that chokes on anything beyond web browsing. The middle ground does exist, and HP has hit it out of the park with this 17-inch laptop that offers real productivity features without the premium price.
The brand appears to be clearing inventory and rather than advertising these savings on their own site, they’re unloading units under the radar on Amazon at historically low prices. This HP 17″ laptop (Intel Core i3, 32GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Windows 11 Pro) has been chopped from $2,399 down to $699, a 71 percent discount that puts professional-grade computing in the budget of students and remote workers.
The 17.3-Inch Display Changes Your Workflow
This is driven by the Intel Core i3-N305 8-core processor up to 3.2GHz and Intel UHD Graphics. This configuration handles everyday multitasking, web surfing, document editing and media playback without frustration or lag. The i3-N305 is Intel’s energy-efficient hybrid architecture designed for laptops that balances performance and battery life by dynamically shifting workloads between the performance and efficiency cores based on what you’re doing. You won’t be rendering 4K video or playing AAA games on max settings, but for office work and streaming entertainment, this processor delivers smooth performance.
Screen size matters more than many people realize until they’ve actually worked on a larger display: The 17.3-inch HD+ screen gives you much more workspace than standard 15.6-inch laptops, reducing the constant window juggling and tab switching that breaks your concentration. The 1600×900 resolution packs approximately 1.4 million pixels and delivers crisp text rendering and sharp graphics for documents and videos. The anti-glare coating reduces reflections from overhead lighting and windows.
The 32GB of RAM changes how you work by eliminating the performance limitations of heavy multitasking. You can have dozens of browser tabs open, several Microsoft 365 applications open simultaneously, be in video calls as you work on presentations and still have apps running in the background without noticing the slowdowns.
The 1TB PCIe NVMe SSD provides fast and spacious storage with Windows boot times in seconds and instant app opening. PCIe NVMe technology provides read and write speeds up to 15 times faster than traditional mechanical hard drives, which transfer files quickly and make opening large documents instant.
At $699, you’re getting a genuinely capable laptop that performs real work without compromise.
