HP ProBook 6xx series guide

Where the ProBook 6xx line stands in 2026

This is a legacy bucket, and it is priced like one: 24 HP ProBook 6xx business laptops in our catalog, released between 2010 and 2020, asking $109 to $604 with a median of just $163. The newest machine here is a 2020 G8; everything else is between six and sixteen years old. These are typing-and-browsing machines today, and the honest way to shop this roster is as a stopgap, not a workstation.

The configuration spread

The CPU history spans four Intel eras — Core i5 dominates with 42 configurations across the generations, Core i3 with 17, Core i7 with 8 — plus a handful of AMD A4/A6 APUs at the bottom. Graphics are strictly integrated-era: Intel HD 3000 through HD 4600 on the older rows, with the two 2020 G8 models pairing their Core i3 1115G4 chips with a GeForce MX450 as the only discrete options. RAM on the listed configs runs from 2 GB on the 2010–2013 machines to 64 GB ceilings on the newest; screens are 13.3 to 15.6 inches and weights 1.28 to 2.62 kg.

Price versus age

The bands are shallow: 2010–2014 rows cluster at $109–145, 2015–2017 at $145–282, and the 2019–2020 tail at $182–604. There is no meaningful year-over-year premium because none of these machines are collector items — age mostly doesn't matter below $300. The one outlier is the ProBook 630 G8 (2020) at $604, asking more than triple its G8 siblings ($350–360) for the same generation; unless that specific listing justifies itself, the 640/650 G8 pair is the rational buy in that class. One row (the ProBook 6465b, $140) carries no release year in our data — treat it as early-2010s by its A4 CPU.

Which one to buy

If you must buy from this roster, buy the newest: the ProBook 650 G8 (2020, $360, Core i3 1115G4 + GeForce MX450 2GB) or ProBook 640 G8 (2020, $350, same platform) are the only rows with a current-enough CPU, USB-C-era connectivity and a discrete GPU option. Below that, the ProBook 650 G3 (2016, $282, Core i5 7200U) and 650 G5 (2017, $256, Core i7 8550U) are the picks if the budget is firmly under $300. The ProBook 650 G2 (2015, $215, Core i5 6200U) remains a classic cheap workhorse. Everything from 2014 and earlier — the 6460b/6560b/6470b band and the G1 models — we would pass on entirely at any price above scrap.

Bottom line

The numbers tell the story plainly: across the roster the best CPU score median is 21.9, performance index 24.4, USComp Score 36, and zero games clear recommended settings at the median configuration. Energy efficiency sits at 50.9 and mobility at 35.5 — old chips and old batteries. Most telling is reliability: a median of 13 on our 100-point scale, the weakest reading among this roster's axes, which is what a decade-plus of service life looks like in the data. The realistic use cases are a spare machine, a document typer, or a cheap stopgap — for anything daily-driver, a used EliteBook 6xx G9-era machine from the 2022+ band costs modestly more and delivers several times the computer.