Building the Future of Business Laptops with HP and AMD
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Ryan Shrout
HP has long held a leading position in the commercial PC market, driven by its ability to align product development with the evolving needs of business and enterprise customers. Since the early 1990s, HP’s commercial laptops have been known for their reliability, manageability, and security, attributes that made them staples in corporate IT deployments across industries. With the introduction of the EliteBook family, HP built a clear flagship line tailored specifically for professionals. These systems combined enterprise-class performance with mobility, durability, and easy integration with business infrastructure, creating a portfolio that earned trust from IT departments and end users alike.
Over the past two decades, HP’s approach to the commercial PC space has evolved to reflect broader shifts in how and where people work. The rise of hybrid work, growing demand for integrated security, and the increasing importance of long battery life and connectivity have all shaped how HP designs its business notebooks. EliteBooks in particular have stood out for their consistent attention to detail, from keyboard quality and port selection to enterprise software support and serviceability. This focus has helped HP maintain a strong reputation among large organizations with long refresh cycles and demanding support requirements.
While HP has worked with all major processor vendors, its collaboration with AMD has steadily grown more important particularly over the past five years. As AMD introduced its Ryzen™ PRO platform, which adds enterprise-class manageability and security features to its high-performance CPU designs, HP began to incorporate these processors into its commercial portfolio more broadly. The new class of systems that resulted combined the core efficiency and multi-core performance AMD is known for with the robust build and software ecosystem HP customers know and value.
AMD Ryzen-powered EliteBooks have allowed HP to offer a compelling alternative in the commercial PC space, often providing strong performance-per-dollar and battery life leadership. These systems have also enabled greater SKU flexibility across different screen sizes and configurations, giving enterprise customers more choice when standardizing across departments or job functions. Importantly, AMD commits to multi-year platform stability and ongoing security alignment with Microsoft, allowing HP to extend these benefits to customers without introducing undue complexity in IT management.
