well as a para they shouldn’t be storing much on the laptop but some personal crap everything else should be on an access controlled shared drive or onedrive and not locally stored. so storage isn’t that big of a concern but ram on these is horrible the only real option that I see is the alienware but with all the alienware bloat it’s going to suck as much as the 8gb i5’s… Man this company tho is making my eye twitch and makin my IA side scream in geek…

Man their options are out there… for most normal office type jobs I would shoot for the HP17 i5 request a ram upgrade to 16GB and the HP docking station and then you should be golden for work I mean seriously 8gb of ram for Windows 10/11 and probably o365, Chrome, probably symantec, or Trellix ESS, probably some form of LCE like Aria or Tanium. yeesh 8gb of ram would be a nightmare…

Take apart and some IPA on all the fans and the radiator wipe down inside and outside of case let dry put back together toss the keyboard and get a new one…

It’s a storage indicator. Pretty standard icon of old school platters that is still used as a visual icon to represent data storage regardless of type in most technical drawings.