HP 250 G6 review

A cheap 2016 HP 250 G6 with a Celeron CPU and no real standout strength

The HP 250 G6 (2016) pairs an Intel Celeron N3060 with 32 GB of RAM and lands at $152, well below the business-class median of about $297. It is an honest budget office machine with no standout strength: reliability is low at 12, the overall performance index is 19.6 (low for the class), and there is no discrete GPU. The 32 GB of RAM is more than the Celeron can fully exploit.

The price is the only real virtue

The Celeron N3060 is a basic-tier dual-core Atom-class processor that handles email, web, and light documents, and 32 GB of RAM is more than most peers at this price offer. There is no metric on which this laptop leads its class — the value is in the low price, not in any capability advantage.

Performance and reliability reflect the budget positioning

The weak spot by level is graphics performance (integrated only — no gaming or GPU-accelerated creative work), but the broader truth is that the Celeron N3060 itself is the ceiling: performance index 19.6 and reliability 12 both sit at the bottom of the bracket. This is a machine for genuinely light duties at a budget price.

Slow depreciation, near the floor

From a base near $1300, the laptop has settled to $152 at roughly 7.2% per year, with a projected value around $131 in two years. The curve has flattened, typical for hardware this far into its life.

Tightly bracketed by budget peers

Slightly pricier options include the HP ProBook 430 G6 ($162) and HP ProBook 455 G2 ($174); cheaper alternatives include the Dell Vostro 3555 ($137) and Dell Latitude E5530 ($144), which offer similar vintage business hardware for somewhat less.

Bottom line

The HP 250 G6 only makes sense for a buyer whose budget is firmly capped around $150 and whose workload is genuinely minimal — basic email, web, and documents. Value-for-money is poor relative to slightly pricier peers; spending even $20 more typically buys a meaningfully stronger processor.