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My wife has HP laptops issued to her from work. She just received a brand new HP laptop issued to her, which leaves us with (2) HP laptops that are collecting dust.
These machines also come loaded up with all manner of proprietary software that we don't have any use for at home, so the idea is to remove the storage device from an unused laptop, store it in an antistatic bag and replace it with one of our own. After that's been accomplished, we would ideally like to load a version of Windows 10 on the machine and press on from there....and, if the laptop in question is ever recalled, we will simply replace the original storage device and return it.
The redundant machine we would like to work with is basically described as follows:
HP ProBook 440 G8
CPU: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 16MB DDR4 PC4-25600 SODIMM DUAL RANK
STORAGE: 256GB PCIE NVMe CL1
My question is just how proprietary HP makes their ProBook laptops?
In other words, we've already found the exact replacement storage device for this machine -- at a very good price -- but, back in my PC building days (in the 90s), nothing was ever as easy as expected, so I guess I'm wondering if our goal is even possible? I'd also like to know if HP laptops are upgradeable? I've seen larger PCIE NVMe storage "drives" for sale that appear to fit into this machine's motherboard, but, once again, the "HP" logo gives me pause.
The point is that, if the internals can be replaced or upgraded, we have a real possibility of gaining a laptop for very little money. If anyone has experience with the internals of HP laptops, I'd certainly appreciate thoughts on this.
Thank you kindly for your time
These machines also come loaded up with all manner of proprietary software that we don't have any use for at home, so the idea is to remove the storage device from an unused laptop, store it in an antistatic bag and replace it with one of our own. After that's been accomplished, we would ideally like to load a version of Windows 10 on the machine and press on from there....and, if the laptop in question is ever recalled, we will simply replace the original storage device and return it.
The redundant machine we would like to work with is basically described as follows:
HP ProBook 440 G8
CPU: 11th Gen Intel Core i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
RAM: 16MB DDR4 PC4-25600 SODIMM DUAL RANK
STORAGE: 256GB PCIE NVMe CL1
My question is just how proprietary HP makes their ProBook laptops?
In other words, we've already found the exact replacement storage device for this machine -- at a very good price -- but, back in my PC building days (in the 90s), nothing was ever as easy as expected, so I guess I'm wondering if our goal is even possible? I'd also like to know if HP laptops are upgradeable? I've seen larger PCIE NVMe storage "drives" for sale that appear to fit into this machine's motherboard, but, once again, the "HP" logo gives me pause.
The point is that, if the internals can be replaced or upgraded, we have a real possibility of gaining a laptop for very little money. If anyone has experience with the internals of HP laptops, I'd certainly appreciate thoughts on this.
Thank you kindly for your time
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