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HP 840 G3 and G4. They're pretty cheap refurbished on amazon and they're very durable laptops. We used them for all of the remote workers during covid. And they have one USB-C port
Good call.
FWIW, We've been using HP EliteBooks for several years now. (Maybe 840s at one point).
Never had any issues with mine and performance has been decent. Can't think of my coworkers ever complaining either.
I think that's what I would get for a cheap laptop. I found out an apple MacBook charger (USB C) can power one of these. Kind of a nice fallback.
is that a charging port
Would you really suggest HP in general? Way too many horror stories about its scummy tactics around on many platforms.
I can't speak for the whole company, but their older business laptops have been good in my experience. I've worked for an airline, and a logistics company, and in both they had HP contracts. I know that Dell laptops felt more brittle, I saw more of them come back brokwn. Also getting them refurbished doesn't give them money, if you don't want to do that.
It's has a normal charging port that take the small blue HP charger, and it's USBc port can also be used for charging. I recommend double checking the specs of whatever you're buying just to make sure I'm not imagining it.