HP Essential
HP Essential is a trademark name used by HP Inc. to denote their own line of entry-level, inexpensive desktops and laptops produced since 2009.
Products under the "Essential" moniker include the HP Desktop, HP All-In-One, HP Laptop and HP Notebook series, as well as products simply branded as "HP". A similar line called HP Stream consisted of low-end consumer-oriented laptops and tablets. All HP Essential products primarily use the Microsoft Windows operating system, with some other operating systems being offered on some models.
The HP Essential line is currently being supplanted by the AI-powered Omni brand as of 2025, due to a corporate streamlining of products that happened in 2024. The HP Essential laptops would be succeeded by the OmniBook 3 series following the announcement.
Models
Several different models of desktops, all-in-ones, and laptops under the HP Essential brand have been produced., 15 all-in-one models and 48 laptop models in the HP Laptop, HP Notebook and HP series are currently being offered.The HP Essential all-in-ones and laptops are only customizable in the United States. A variety of preconfigured models with different setups are available in other countries.
HP All-In-One
Certain all-in-one models include artificial intelligence technologies, and are branded as "AI PC" or "Copilot+PC".- HP All-In-One 27
- HP All-In-One 24
- HP All-In-One 22
HP Laptop
- HP Laptop 17t
- HP Laptop 17z
- HP Laptop 15t
- HP Laptop 15z
- HP Laptop 14t
- HP Laptop 14z
HP Laptop AI
- HP Laptop AI 17
- HP Laptop AI 15
- HP Laptop AI 14
HP Notebook
- HP Notebook 15 -
- HP Notebook 15 -
HP
200 Series
HP 250 is a budget laptop from HP. It has 11 generations, from G1 to G11. It uses Celeron, Pentium, or Intel Core i3 or i5 processors.HP 255 notebook is a budget laptop. The latest tenth generation model is equipped with AMD Ryzen 3, 5 or 7 mobile processors.
300 Series
HP 340S notebook comes with a choice of Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 processors.400 Series
HP 450 notebook comes in a choice of Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium, and Intel Core i3.500 Series
HP 520 notebook, a low-end business laptop with either Core Duo T2400 or other Celeron M processors, and either with Windows Vista Business or Basic preinstalled, or if chosen, Red Hat 10.600 Series
HP 620 notebook from 2010 featured a dual-core Intel Pentium CPU.HP 630 was released in 2011 with a Intel Pentium P6200 dual-core processor. The HP 635 instead had an AMD Zacate E-350.
HP Stream series
The HP Stream series was first introduced in November 2014.Laptops
HP Stream 10
HP Stream 11
HP Stream 11 Pro
The first generation Stream 11 Pro was introduced in January 2015, with the same 1366x768 11.6-inch display as Stream 11, but with a different keyboard.Since then more generations of the 11 Pro have been released:
- G1
- G2
- G3
- G4
- G5
HP Stream 13
HP Stream 14
HP Stream 14 came out in 2014 with a AMD A4 Micro-6400T APU.An updated version came in 2016 with 1.6 GHz Intel Celeron N3060.
Another Stream 14 revision was released in 2020.
HP Stream 14 Pro
HP Stream x360
The Stream x360 is a 2-in-1 convertible that came in 11.6" and 13.3" variants when released in 2015. It had a Intel Celeron dual-core 2.16 GHz N2840 chip with 2 GB of RAM.A second generation was released in 2016 with CPU upgraded to Celeron N3060.