WEBVTT 00:00:00.240 --> 00:00:05.520 This laptop, the HP Dragonfly Elite, is 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:12.639 my absolute favorite Windows machine, and it also is now dead. And in its 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:18.000 place, we have this right here, the HP Elite Book X G1A. This looks like it's 00:00:15.200 --> 00:00:22.960 going to be a fantastic machine, but can it possibly compare to its older 00:00:20.119 --> 00:00:29.760 brother? I don't know. All right, let's see what we have in the box. 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:31.679 Oh, wow. That's a big power brick. I was 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:36.320 not expecting one to be this large. I'm surprised that we have a 100 watt 00:00:33.120 --> 00:00:38.320 charger here because this is quite large 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:42.879 and quite bulky for what is going to be a very thin machine. Oh, yes. Plug it 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:48.000 in. Turn it on. Do you think it's going to be pretty, Belle? Yes. 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:53.680 It's actually It just looks like a laptop if I'm honest. This is one heck 00:00:51.039 --> 00:00:57.120 of a laptop looking laptop. I'm not going to tell you the price yet, but 00:00:55.680 --> 00:01:03.760 this right here looks like a machine that could be anywhere from $700 to 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:05.760 quite a bit more. It does not feel like 00:01:03.760 --> 00:01:11.040 a cheap machine, though. This is, first of all, very cold to the touch right now 00:01:08.080 --> 00:01:17.200 because it is all metal and it feels very solid. One finger open, no problem. 00:01:14.720 --> 00:01:21.680 And here we have our keyboard. First things that I'm noticing right here, we 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:26.000 have a shutter for the webcam, which I absolutely love to see. That way, you 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:29.600 can just know that when you're off hours time, you're not going to accidentally 00:01:27.600 --> 00:01:35.119 still be in a team's call or something. The chassis is made out of 80% recycled 00:01:32.079 --> 00:01:37.320 aluminum, and it is hecking stiff. I'm 00:01:35.119 --> 00:01:41.360 going to push here. Wow. It's not very often that we're 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:47.759 going to break out a MacBook for comparison, but man, it is close. The HP 00:01:44.960 --> 00:01:52.000 is not quite MacBook Pro stiff, but it's way stiffer than something like a 00:01:49.119 --> 00:01:56.640 MacBook Air. The IO also looks very impressive. On the right, we have 00:01:53.520 --> 00:02:00.799 Thunderbolt 4 USBA. On the left, we have 00:01:56.640 --> 00:02:02.399 another Thunderbolt 4 USBC and HDMI 2.1. 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:06.799 So, you aren't going to be having any issues plugging this into kind of 00:02:04.880 --> 00:02:11.520 whatever you want. I really love that they keep on including USB typeA on 00:02:09.200 --> 00:02:16.480 these laptops because it is a lifesaver. the industry completely screwed up the 00:02:14.400 --> 00:02:20.879 whole transition to type-C. The weight of the Elite Books feels a little bit 00:02:18.800 --> 00:02:26.080 heavier. That aluminum is not going to be as light as the magnesium that was on 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:28.640 the Dragonfly. So, it comes in at 3.28 00:02:26.080 --> 00:02:34.879 lb. It's not too bad, but its predecessor is 2.8. That's not going to 00:02:32.319 --> 00:02:42.080 be backbreaking difference, but it is a difference indeed. And the MacBook for a 00:02:37.680 --> 00:02:45.200 full comparison is 3.5. All right, let's 00:02:42.080 --> 00:02:46.959 turn it on. Ah, nice. It has HPWolf 00:02:45.200 --> 00:02:50.959 security, just like how I'm going to secure the bag with this segue to our 00:02:48.720 --> 00:02:55.360 sponsor. Thanks to Charge for sponsoring this video. 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So, it's a great time to pick up a commuter backpack, a precision 00:03:33.760 --> 00:03:40.480 screwdriver, or a stylish framework hoodie. Oh, I took it off to put on this 00:03:38.400 --> 00:03:44.560 jacket. The point is, we've also got never-before-seen pricing on our MCM 00:03:42.480 --> 00:03:48.080 Essentials bundle. Don't miss it. We'll have it linked down below. All right, 00:03:46.400 --> 00:03:52.959 let's have a look at this machine. Now, the first thing I'm noticing is this 00:03:50.400 --> 00:03:57.120 desktop background looks really soft. Is it is that a problem with the display? 00:03:55.519 --> 00:04:01.120 Okay, this display does look pretty good. The background was most of the 00:03:59.040 --> 00:04:05.840 issue, but at the same time, this is not a display that is going to knock you out 00:04:02.959 --> 00:04:11.120 of the park. It's 1920 x 1200, so it's not going to be quite like a retina 00:04:08.319 --> 00:04:16.479 display or 4K on something like this. And you can notice the softness. Like 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:20.000 I'm going to open Notepad. And it's 00:04:16.479 --> 00:04:22.479 decent enough. I would say you can kind 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:26.960 of from back here have a pretty good time, but if you use your computer from 00:04:24.479 --> 00:04:31.120 like right here for whatever reason, you are going to be starting to notice that 00:04:28.479 --> 00:04:35.759 the resolution is not the highest. But the good news is though that you can get 00:04:33.600 --> 00:04:39.440 an OLED panel on this if you don't mind sacrificing a bunch of your battery 00:04:37.440 --> 00:04:44.960 life. And my eyes don't deceive me either. The Labs test results for this 00:04:41.280 --> 00:04:47.759 display are a bit on the mediocre side. 00:04:44.960 --> 00:04:54.240 Now, it is quite bright. They advertise 400 nits, but we measured 465, which is 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:56.639 an excellent showing, but everything 00:04:54.240 --> 00:05:04.160 else is not as good. There is a noticeable green tint on the display and 00:04:59.520 --> 00:05:05.919 only managed to cover 96% of sRGB at a 00:05:04.160 --> 00:05:12.080 time when most displays are getting close to 100 of DCIP3, which is way 00:05:09.520 --> 00:05:17.199 wider of a color gamut. So, what you want to do on your laptop is do photo 00:05:14.479 --> 00:05:21.199 editing or video editing or watch content in a beautiful way, this is not 00:05:19.440 --> 00:05:25.919 going to be the laptop for you. But again, there is an OLED option. Oh, and 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:30.720 it also isn't a touchcreen. In fairness to HP though, for the people that I 00:05:28.479 --> 00:05:36.080 think they're aiming this laptop at, this display is going to be very good. 00:05:33.520 --> 00:05:40.639 What it is fantastic at is having quite low eye strain. I am not seeing anything 00:05:38.880 --> 00:05:46.000 on here that's going to make you be fatigued after a while. And also, it has 00:05:42.960 --> 00:05:48.960 a matte cover on it that is fantastic at 00:05:46.000 --> 00:05:53.600 rejecting glare. Like, we have a light above my head and that's how much glare 00:05:51.600 --> 00:05:57.680 we're getting. We can look, there's a studio light. It's of course a bit 00:05:55.840 --> 00:06:01.840 diffused and stuff like that. Let's look at that on the MacBook. Yeah, there we 00:05:59.280 --> 00:06:06.160 go. You can really see that. And our studio light. Yep. You're not seeing a 00:06:03.840 --> 00:06:10.479 thing on that display. This is aimed at being a business machine though the 00:06:08.160 --> 00:06:14.080 keyboard and trackpad have to be exceptional. So let's have a 00:06:14.680 --> 00:06:18.720 look. Oh, that's a really good 00:06:20.120 --> 00:06:28.319 keyboard. Okay, the Dragonfly is way better. It has a fantastic snap to it. 00:06:26.080 --> 00:06:33.919 Whereas we come over to the Elite Book, you can hear that it's just way more 00:06:30.479 --> 00:06:33.919 dull. So, we've we've got 00:06:34.120 --> 00:06:37.600 the compared 00:06:38.680 --> 00:06:46.720 to you can just hear the difference in the snap. So, HP has kind of shot 00:06:45.120 --> 00:06:51.199 themselves in the foot here because this is by all regards an absolutely 00:06:49.280 --> 00:06:57.520 fantastic keyboard. I'm going to give it a very solid A because I think that it 00:06:53.840 --> 00:06:59.759 is great, but it is following up the 00:06:57.520 --> 00:07:05.919 best laptop keyboard on the market in my opinion. So, you didn't get there, guys. 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:09.919 What you can replace, though, is this trackpad down here. Although, I don't 00:07:07.840 --> 00:07:14.120 know why you would want to because it is great. It is glass topped and although 00:07:12.080 --> 00:07:19.280 it is not force touch, which is a bit unfortunate, I can forgive it because 00:07:16.319 --> 00:07:23.120 the click feel is fantastic. It is large and I just like it. It feels really 00:07:21.599 --> 00:07:26.639 good. I'm also going to give the trackpad an A. Although, that said, I 00:07:25.360 --> 00:07:30.560 think at the price point of this machine, they could have got four such 00:07:28.639 --> 00:07:35.520 in there. Although this does not have quite like gaming laptop power, it is 00:07:33.840 --> 00:07:43.000 quite a competent little machine. And here we have the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 00:07:40.479 --> 00:07:49.440 375 with Radeon 890M. That is quite a mouthful, but it 00:07:45.840 --> 00:07:52.319 does have 12 cores, 24 threads. It is 00:07:49.440 --> 00:07:57.120 quite a fast little guy. We also have 32 GB of 8,000 mega transfer per second 00:07:54.960 --> 00:08:04.720 RAM, which is going to be quite rapid, but also not replaceable. A 1 TBTE 00:08:00.160 --> 00:08:06.879 Kioxia NVMe SSD. MediaTek Wi-Fi 7. I 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:11.599 would much prefer if it was not MediaTek cuz they're not the most stable in my 00:08:09.520 --> 00:08:16.639 experience, but oh well, maybe we'll see if you can change it out later. And of 00:08:14.000 --> 00:08:21.120 course, the Radeon 890M for the graphics. The graphics in this are quite 00:08:19.199 --> 00:08:28.160 good and we tested it compared to Intel's Core Ultra 9 285H in the Lenovo 00:08:25.039 --> 00:08:31.280 Idea Pad and it turns out that it's a 00:08:28.160 --> 00:08:33.519 wash between the two. In Cyberpunk, AMD 00:08:31.280 --> 00:08:38.479 gets quite a big league. In Rocket League, they are pretty much identical 00:08:35.599 --> 00:08:44.000 in performance. And in Dota 2, Intel absolutely sweeps it with plus 33% 00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:47.600 performance. So, it's a toss-up of which one's going to be faster, Intel, AMD, I 00:08:46.000 --> 00:08:52.240 don't know. It depends on the game. What is not going to be a wash, though, is 00:08:49.680 --> 00:08:57.120 the NPU. On the Intel side, they intentionally made the NPU smaller for a 00:08:54.720 --> 00:09:03.120 larger GPU in order to match AMD, whereas AMD just has a big NPU and a 00:09:00.399 --> 00:09:07.839 good GPU because this right here has 55 tops of performance, meaning you can do 00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:12.320 all your co-pilot stuff if you actually like AI for whatever reason. I like to 00:09:10.000 --> 00:09:16.720 think of it as onboard machine learning hardware. Let's have a listen to Crab 00:09:14.080 --> 00:09:21.040 Rafe here. This does have Poly Studio speakers, but I suspect it's not going 00:09:19.040 --> 00:09:24.399 to be able to keep up with our MacBook, even though they're the same size. And 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:28.920 it looks like they dedicated very similar amounts of space to their 00:09:26.920 --> 00:09:34.560 speakers. Oh, sounds pretty 00:09:32.120 --> 00:09:38.800 good. It's clear and loud, although it does not have a whole lot of bass. Let's 00:09:36.160 --> 00:09:41.519 listen to the Mac. Oh, that's way 00:09:41.720 --> 00:09:49.200 better. Wow. Yep. The HB sounds pretty 00:09:46.360 --> 00:09:54.560 good until you hear a MacBook. Wow. That's a There's a lot more stage. 00:09:52.080 --> 00:09:59.640 There's a lot more bass. The highs still sound pretty 00:09:55.720 --> 00:10:02.399 clear. Yeah, they're about equally 00:09:59.640 --> 00:10:07.920 loud. I would say that's a pretty good showing for HP, but it is not going to 00:10:05.440 --> 00:10:12.000 be tangling with the best in the market. One thing that is very nice about this 00:10:09.920 --> 00:10:16.240 HP compared to the Mac though is that there's no stupid notch. And there also 00:10:14.320 --> 00:10:21.920 is quite a nice little webcam. Up here we have a 5 megapixel webcam which can 00:10:18.560 --> 00:10:24.320 record at 1440p. And I cannot tell if 00:10:21.920 --> 00:10:27.600 the webcam is at fault, but I look green and sickly. I'm pretty sure that's a 00:10:26.000 --> 00:10:32.800 problem with our display and the fact that it has a bit of a green tint to it. 00:10:30.320 --> 00:10:37.760 That said though, this webcam is doing a fantastic job. It is exposing for my 00:10:35.200 --> 00:10:41.680 face fantastically. We can see a really bright light here. Really dark stuff 00:10:40.079 --> 00:10:46.399 over here. It doesn't care. It is exposing for me. It looks nice and 00:10:43.959 --> 00:10:50.399 sharp. Can move around here. Is it going to figure it out? It did. Moving around 00:10:48.480 --> 00:10:54.560 even more. Just directly into some studio lights. My face is still 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:57.760 perfectly exposed. It's not having any issues. And maybe the microphone's 00:10:56.640 --> 00:11:02.720 pretty good. You guys can be the judge of that. I didn't mention it before, but 00:10:59.680 --> 00:11:05.200 we did ask HP if the color space and the 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:09.760 display accuracy are what they expected and they said it is within their specs. 00:11:07.480 --> 00:11:14.640 So, you might get one that looks like this. Four Phillips head screws later, 00:11:12.240 --> 00:11:21.279 all of which are captive. I love to see that. And we are in. Now, the 00:11:17.600 --> 00:11:23.600 repairability itself is not the best, 00:11:21.279 --> 00:11:27.680 but HP does get a whole bunch of points for publishing on YouTube a full repair 00:11:25.600 --> 00:11:32.480 guide for this thing. So everything that can be repaired, you can repair, or at 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:37.760 least in theory, you know how to do it. In here, it looks like we can replace 00:11:34.320 --> 00:11:40.480 our SSD. And that's about it. The Wi-Fi 00:11:37.760 --> 00:11:45.120 card sadly is soldered down. The RAM, as we expected, is underneath here 00:11:42.800 --> 00:11:49.600 somewhere. Soldered down. Can't replace that. The real reason why we're in here, 00:11:47.200 --> 00:11:55.360 though, is the battery. Despite this being quite a small laptop, HP has 00:11:52.399 --> 00:12:00.720 managed to put a 74.5Wh hour battery into this thing, which netted us a bit 00:11:57.839 --> 00:12:05.839 over 11 hours of battery life, which is very impressive for something with that 00:12:03.120 --> 00:12:11.440 powerful of a processor, although no GPU. We can also see the woofers right 00:12:08.959 --> 00:12:15.519 here. And there's not a whole lot more that we can do in here. Now, I've 00:12:13.440 --> 00:12:20.040 alluded to it before, but we need to talk about the price. What we have right 00:12:17.600 --> 00:12:24.800 here as spec is a $2,200 machine. Now, it is built for 00:12:22.959 --> 00:12:29.120 businesses. So, if you're buying a whole bunch of them, I'm sure HP will give you 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:34.160 a bit of a deal. And also, I think that these are the kind of laptops that go on 00:12:30.959 --> 00:12:35.519 sale quite a bit. But at $2,200, this is 00:12:34.160 --> 00:12:40.399 the sort of machine that I would recommend you have your employer buy for 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:44.560 you instead of maybe purchasing it for yourself. That said though, there's a 00:12:42.560 --> 00:12:50.320 lot to like with this laptop. Build quality is fantastic. keyboard, trackpad 00:12:47.279 --> 00:12:52.720 also fantastic. The IO is quite good. 00:12:50.320 --> 00:12:57.120 It's just the screen and the price are not quite where they need to be. So, do 00:12:55.279 --> 00:13:03.680 I think that the Elite Book is a good replacement for the Dragonfly? Honestly, 00:13:00.399 --> 00:13:06.160 I think so. The Dragonfly was also way 00:13:03.680 --> 00:13:10.800 too expensive if we're honest. And although you are giving up the 00:13:07.800 --> 00:13:12.720 magnesium, this Elite Book is quite a 00:13:10.800 --> 00:13:16.959 good machine. And you do have to remember with these business laptops 00:13:14.880 --> 00:13:23.440 that you're also paying for things like dual BIOS, the support that comes with 00:13:19.399 --> 00:13:25.760 it in theory, and also me liking you for 00:13:23.440 --> 00:13:30.160 watching this video. So, huge thanks for watching. Hit like, get subscribed, and 00:13:28.160 --> 00:13:32.800 I hope you guys have a great old day. See you later.