WEBVTT 00:00:00.199 --> 00:00:06.759 this is the best laptop just just plain and simple for not every single use case 00:00:05.080 --> 00:00:12.120 but my use case and that's the one that matters the most to me let's have a look 00:00:09.519 --> 00:00:18.600 this is the HP dragonfly Elite and I have been using the G3 for the past year 00:00:15.280 --> 00:00:20.279 and it's it's absolutely fantastic 00:00:18.600 --> 00:00:24.400 although the new one's much better not just because it's new but it's way 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:30.679 cheaper like $2500 cheaper like a a a lot a lot 00:00:28.400 --> 00:00:34.160 cheaper let's get into it this one's probably actually half similar but uh we 00:00:32.680 --> 00:00:37.960 can figure out what the exact spec is this is a nice box I've never seen one 00:00:36.160 --> 00:00:41.480 of these fancy boxes before these are business laptops and you actually have 00:00:39.239 --> 00:00:46.360 to pay like an extra $10 for the premium unboxing experience I haven't gotten it 00:00:46.680 --> 00:00:51.920 before Oh you can go over there for a 00:00:49.879 --> 00:00:57.719 second here we go charger nice and simple 65 wats that's being delivered 00:00:54.960 --> 00:01:02.800 over USB type-c and it's a nice little size I think also this pre premium cable 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:07.600 here is an extra $5 if you want to pay for it unlike Dell they don't give you a 00:01:04.839 --> 00:01:11.640 dongle in the box cuz they give you IO oh I like this here they do give you the 00:01:09.680 --> 00:01:15.400 option of from the factory it can come loaded with Linux or freedos and then 00:01:14.200 --> 00:01:19.479 you don't have to pay for the Windows license and also you just don't have to 00:01:18.200 --> 00:01:24.479 deal with Microsoft at all if you don't want to the first thing that they denote 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:31.000 number one are the internal Wireless antennas I'm sure that's the most 00:01:26.799 --> 00:01:33.640 important thing this is too long I 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:38.840 what laptop it's too long on the paperwork but then how will the people 00:01:35.200 --> 00:01:41.040 know that this has NFC tapping area on 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:44.520 the touchpad that's actually pretty important if you're in like high 00:01:42.280 --> 00:01:49.280 security places I am sad though it looks like HP sent over the silver when they 00:01:46.520 --> 00:01:56.360 have this nice like dark gray version that just looks so much better okay okay 00:01:54.040 --> 00:02:02.200 all right wow they have not changed a thing 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:07.799 which is really okay by me cuz this thing's great let's have a little look 00:02:05.000 --> 00:02:13.640 around here so first of all it comes with an all magnesium chassis that is 00:02:10.160 --> 00:02:17.840 just super rigid and also very light all 00:02:13.640 --> 00:02:21.200 right it is 1.2 kg 00:02:17.840 --> 00:02:24.040 or 2.7 lb I think that's slightly 00:02:21.200 --> 00:02:28.560 heavier than this one actually oh no the Old One's slightly heavier must be the 00:02:25.760 --> 00:02:34.400 durn skin probably my absolute favorite thing about this laptop is that it is a 00:02:30.519 --> 00:02:37.720 thin and light but it has solid IO so 00:02:34.400 --> 00:02:40.840 here we have got Thunderbolt 4 USB type 00:02:37.720 --> 00:02:42.040 A and headphone microphone combo Jack 00:02:40.840 --> 00:02:49.879 around the other side we have Thunderbolt 4 again a 5G SIM card slot 00:02:46.280 --> 00:02:53.280 and HDMI 2.1 I have to say the inclusion 00:02:49.879 --> 00:02:56.480 of USB type A and HDMI has made my life 00:02:53.280 --> 00:02:58.360 just so much easier like it's not very 00:02:56.480 --> 00:03:03.680 hard putting a dongle in your backpack but it's a lot easier to just just not 00:03:00.720 --> 00:03:08.480 have to use a dongle in the first place here we can see again that nice 00:03:05.680 --> 00:03:14.840 magnesium chassis it is one of the stiffest on the market it isn't quite up 00:03:11.720 --> 00:03:16.920 there with like apple or razor in terms 00:03:14.840 --> 00:03:21.920 of stiffness but I do think it is up there with them in terms of just overall 00:03:19.360 --> 00:03:26.360 feel and quality and actually I kind of like the feel of this a bit 00:03:23.640 --> 00:03:30.840 more probably my favorite feature with the design though are what they call 00:03:28.519 --> 00:03:35.640 their pillow block Corners right here it's just nice and rounded over and 00:03:32.959 --> 00:03:39.480 every single time that I go at CES or computex to someone's booth that has a 00:03:37.319 --> 00:03:43.400 laptop I'm like hey guys that's really nice how you have sharp edges here that 00:03:41.640 --> 00:03:48.159 look like kind of cool on camera for your like marketing materials I hate it 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:52.159 it's awful when you're like holding your laptop like this do you know how nice it 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:56.720 is to have rounded Corners it's fantastic it's so comfortable it's 00:03:54.280 --> 00:04:00.519 actually one of my favorite features I guess we could continue talking about 00:03:58.079 --> 00:04:04.200 the build quality of this one but I've been using this one for a year and 00:04:02.040 --> 00:04:08.720 uh how has it held up I've lightly damaged the finish in a couple spots 00:04:06.120 --> 00:04:14.799 like you can see like there a ding there couple little scratches there but 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:16.320 overall after a year of pretty hard use 00:04:14.799 --> 00:04:20.560 no complaints the first thing that's awesome about this computer is the 00:04:18.120 --> 00:04:29.240 display so it has a 3x2 so 1920x 1280 on this one or you can 00:04:25.520 --> 00:04:31.840 get the 3000x 2000 version if you go 00:04:29.240 --> 00:04:36.479 with the OLED panel but uh I really think you should stick with the 1080 one 00:04:33.440 --> 00:04:38.520 first of all it gets you 3 to 4 hours 00:04:36.479 --> 00:04:44.360 more battery life than OLED which is just massive absolutely huge and my 00:04:41.880 --> 00:04:49.639 favorite thing about this is definitely the battery life so I am not willing to 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:52.240 sacrifice that for better visuals also 00:04:49.639 --> 00:04:56.400 here we have a matte display which is just there's not enough of them there's 00:04:54.320 --> 00:05:02.840 not nearly enough of them now the panel itself for watching content and creating 00:04:59.520 --> 00:05:05.919 creating content and that stuff is only 00:05:02.840 --> 00:05:08.400 okay HP advertises 400 nits Peak 00:05:05.919 --> 00:05:15.759 brightness but in our testing we are only able to find 340 nits which is 00:05:12.840 --> 00:05:21.360 going to be noticeable that said though I have been able to use this indirect 00:05:17.960 --> 00:05:25.160 sunlight but only for like using 00:05:21.360 --> 00:05:27.639 Microsoft Word and word editing I cannot 00:05:25.160 --> 00:05:36.039 watch YouTube videos in direct sunlight also pretty awful on this panel is pixel 00:05:31.560 --> 00:05:38.680 response time we're looking at 32 to 54 00:05:36.039 --> 00:05:43.639 milliseconds that is brutal like it's a sort of thing where 00:05:40.759 --> 00:05:49.720 like even just the mous mosing around like this I can very easily tell that 00:05:46.639 --> 00:05:52.240 the latency on this display is bad or 00:05:49.720 --> 00:05:58.360 watching YouTube videos even I can tell at the pixel response time is just not 00:05:56.280 --> 00:06:04.639 good it's not good enough if you want to play games on this don't it's 00:06:01.680 --> 00:06:08.160 awful exter thanks to exter for sponsoring today's video their wallets 00:06:06.440 --> 00:06:12.880 are crafted with premium leather sourced from lwg gold certified tanneries can 00:06:10.919 --> 00:06:16.880 hold up to 12 cards and even come with a money strap if you're using those dollar 00:06:14.759 --> 00:06:20.479 dollar bills check out their quick card 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of 2 that you would want for professional color work but I don't do 00:07:07.080 --> 00:07:13.759 that I just need to check stuff and know that it's going to be broadly accurate 00:07:12.160 --> 00:07:18.080 and this is more than good enough for that also like you could just calibrate 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:23.680 it another reason this is in my opinion the best laptop on the market is because 00:07:21.039 --> 00:07:31.599 of the keyboard it is simply put the best there is no better keyboard on a 00:07:26.840 --> 00:07:31.599 laptop in existence right now in my 00:07:34.919 --> 00:07:40.039 opinion it's an A+ it's an A++ if I 00:07:38.400 --> 00:07:44.840 could give that normally when I'm talking about laptop keyboards sort of 00:07:42.639 --> 00:07:50.240 like an A minus is when you can get up to full speed but maybe it isn't the 00:07:47.479 --> 00:07:55.440 most satisfying that's something like the MacBook Pro it's legitimately a good 00:07:53.599 --> 00:08:00.400 keyboard if you can't type fast on it that's your problem but I just don't 00:07:57.919 --> 00:08:04.039 love it when you get into the a we're looking at like you know the stability 00:08:02.000 --> 00:08:08.360 of every single key is good the travel is good the feel is good to get that A+ 00:08:06.720 --> 00:08:13.400 you need that just extra I don't even know what you would 00:08:10.919 --> 00:08:19.800 call it but it is this keyboard right here it has almost like a desktop feel 00:08:16.680 --> 00:08:22.199 to it that I don't know how they were 00:08:19.800 --> 00:08:26.759 able to achieve but once we get our keyboard tester up and running I'm sure 00:08:24.080 --> 00:08:30.879 that it will validate me because like if we look here like the key stability is 00:08:29.319 --> 00:08:36.240 absolutely incredible I'm pushing on the corner on a lot of laptops you'll see 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:39.719 this whole key sort of flexed down this right here I'm getting none of that the 00:08:37.880 --> 00:08:46.080 whole key presses when you're pressing on the corner also the consistency from 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:48.360 side to side is absolutely Flawless the 00:08:46.080 --> 00:08:53.880 force required to press these Keys is identical across pretty much the whole 00:08:51.279 --> 00:09:00.120 thing which is of course aided by the excellent chassis rigidity of this 00:08:56.200 --> 00:09:02.079 magnesium frame it is it is absolutely 00:09:00.120 --> 00:09:07.839 fantastic another thing that's great is the trackpad I don't think that it 00:09:04.519 --> 00:09:11.040 stands out a whole lot in the way that 00:09:07.839 --> 00:09:12.920 the keyboard does it's instead just 00:09:11.040 --> 00:09:18.560 great like I have never once thought about the trackpad when I've been using 00:09:15.160 --> 00:09:20.720 the laptop because it just works it is 00:09:18.560 --> 00:09:26.279 glass topped I do wish that they had integrated Force like apple or Dell or 00:09:23.839 --> 00:09:30.320 Ms most people have Force clicking at this point and that can be quite good 00:09:28.600 --> 00:09:34.640 and I do really appreciate that you're able to tune it this uh you can't do any 00:09:32.959 --> 00:09:38.959 of that but at the same time it's accurate it's glass top it feels good to 00:09:36.440 --> 00:09:44.320 use I like it I didn't mention it before but you can plug in the power charger on 00:09:41.399 --> 00:09:49.000 either side which is just so convenient you can be there can be there love it 00:09:47.079 --> 00:09:55.800 moving over to Performance though in here we have an Intel i7 1365 U which is 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:59.760 10 cores which sounds like a lot but it's actually two performance cores and 00:09:57.720 --> 00:10:05.240 eight efficiency and uh uh in my experience using a laptop which has a 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:09.640 1265 U which is basically the same as 00:10:05.240 --> 00:10:12.240 the 1365 U it's not particularly fast 00:10:09.640 --> 00:10:18.519 like in a lot of things like even web browsing at times can feel just a little 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:21.360 bit slow when you compare it to other 00:10:18.519 --> 00:10:25.320 laptops like it's it's not that like it doesn't have that like snappiness that 00:10:23.360 --> 00:10:29.560 some of them do but at the same time compared to like a dual core thin and 00:10:27.839 --> 00:10:34.440 light from a couple years ago this absolutely destroys it like if you 00:10:32.079 --> 00:10:41.440 compare this to basically any like 11th gen laptop chip this thing will on its 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:44.800 face okay let's see here running cin 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:49.279 bench R23 I want to beat the 00:10:44.800 --> 00:10:51.600 i77700k that's 6,300 points and in my 00:10:49.279 --> 00:10:56.600 mind that's like the last that was like when Intel peaked just before AMD came 00:10:54.639 --> 00:11:01.040 in and started making them look kind of silly oh my God we just beat it all 00:10:58.760 --> 00:11:07.040 right cool this thing was able to get 7254 points in Center bench R23 and I 00:11:04.800 --> 00:11:11.000 think that there are some stupid Windows is trying to update or stuff in the 00:11:08.639 --> 00:11:15.880 background at the moment but overall if like you need to export stuff on this it 00:11:13.680 --> 00:11:22.079 isn't brutal it it is still a thin and light but you can do the stuff here are 00:11:18.920 --> 00:11:24.600 the results that we got from the Labs 00:11:22.079 --> 00:11:30.959 there are the graphs it's more than powerful enough for me like we can look 00:11:26.360 --> 00:11:30.959 here oh watch watch this no d 00:11:31.000 --> 00:11:37.839 boom we're screen recording my laptop now ha like this isn't anything crazy 00:11:35.600 --> 00:11:42.760 but this is a solid works model that I was able to build on this computer and 00:11:40.200 --> 00:11:47.200 not have any issues with it it's only a couple of components and they're all 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:52.040 pretty simple but at the same time this thing can do it no problem moving on 00:11:49.440 --> 00:11:58.399 from the processor we also have 16 GB of RAM runting at 4800 megat transfers per 00:11:54.480 --> 00:11:59.519 second we have a 500 GB NVMe SSD from 00:11:58.399 --> 00:12:06.760 Samsung Intel Wi-Fi 6E love to see that and of 00:12:03.839 --> 00:12:12.120 course Iris XE Graphics uh this isn't a gaming laptop but uh we proceeded to 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:16.040 play games anyway this is bad I don't like it at all what I'm seeing though is 00:12:14.079 --> 00:12:20.800 that this is not a good gaming experience like aside from the frame 00:12:17.839 --> 00:12:25.639 rate only being okayish the pixel response time is just a complete noo for 00:12:23.399 --> 00:12:29.120 a game like this like it's actually hard to like figure out what's on the go 00:12:27.360 --> 00:12:35.000 everything just feels like it's in slow motion it is not enjoyable this panel is 00:12:32.519 --> 00:12:41.480 not capable of updating fast enough for gameplay like it it just feels so jelly 00:12:39.000 --> 00:12:45.839 and generally terrible don't game on it it's an office laptop the speakers on 00:12:43.959 --> 00:12:49.959 this are from bang and Olson and they are fantastic they have been The 00:12:47.600 --> 00:12:53.639 Benchmark for the last year for pretty much all of the other laptops you guys 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:57.839 have heard them a bunch let's just sniff them one more time that's 00:12:55.600 --> 00:13:00.839 loud wonder if they've improved 00:13:04.120 --> 00:13:09.120 yep that's that's good that's good stuff right 00:13:09.120 --> 00:13:13.780 there how does it compare to the old 00:13:12.160 --> 00:13:16.909 dragonfly Elite 00:13:17.600 --> 00:13:24.639 go it's the same which is excellent cuz I've compared this old one to a bunch of 00:13:22.880 --> 00:13:28.880 different laptops and it is very favorable in almost every single matchup 00:13:27.079 --> 00:13:33.120 even when compared to laptops that are twice its size with twice as many 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:38.320 speakers it's not just pretty loud and has decent extension but it has a lot of 00:13:35.880 --> 00:13:43.160 clarity so something like the MacBook Air has more base and like a bit more of 00:13:41.000 --> 00:13:48.920 a v curve whereas this right here seems a lot more focused on like Clarity of 00:13:46.560 --> 00:13:54.759 voice and stuff like that in the speaker tuning and I quite appreciate it it's 00:13:51.240 --> 00:13:58.120 it's awesome webcam it's great uh so 00:13:54.759 --> 00:14:01.079 this right here is a 1440p webcam you 00:13:58.120 --> 00:14:05.920 very rarely see that on laptops and overall it just does an excellent job 00:14:03.240 --> 00:14:11.199 like look here it's exposing for my face we move around it is still just exposing 00:14:09.480 --> 00:14:14.399 pretty much perfectly for my face it's a little bit hot there but it probably 00:14:12.600 --> 00:14:20.360 will figure it out maybe okay it isn't but it still is 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:22.560 doing a pretty good job also what is 00:14:20.360 --> 00:14:27.680 fantastic and I really really like about this webcam is you press right here Boop 00:14:24.759 --> 00:14:32.800 she's gone you got a tiny little shutter right here tiny little shutter that goes 00:14:31.000 --> 00:14:37.320 across there so you know that no one's going to be spying on you and there also 00:14:35.279 --> 00:14:43.240 is a hard button for the microphone cut off and you can now probably not hear me 00:14:39.680 --> 00:14:45.320 four Torx T5 screws later and we are in 00:14:43.240 --> 00:14:49.920 thank you HP so much for making getting into this simple they can be kind of bad 00:14:47.800 --> 00:14:54.399 for sticking screws underneath this plastic foot right here and uh once you 00:14:52.160 --> 00:14:59.079 take this off once it never goes back on correctly again so thank you very much 00:14:56.560 --> 00:15:06.279 for not making us have to destroy these in here the star of the show is the 68.4 00:15:02.720 --> 00:15:09.160 W battery now there are other brands 00:15:06.279 --> 00:15:16.000 that have larger capacity batteries in similarly like sized and weighted 00:15:11.720 --> 00:15:19.079 laptops but hp's tuning of just all the 00:15:16.000 --> 00:15:21.000 power consumption in this is absolutely 00:15:19.079 --> 00:15:26.560 exceptional this thing right here in our endurance testing for Labs was able to 00:15:23.040 --> 00:15:29.680 get 13 hours and 21 minutes now with the 00:15:26.560 --> 00:15:31.920 stress test it did die in 2 hours and 30 00:15:29.680 --> 00:15:37.880 minutes but you realistically are not fully loading this ever I have had no 00:15:35.040 --> 00:15:42.360 trouble at all getting like a solid 12 hours of battery light outed of this and 00:15:39.880 --> 00:15:47.319 not even trying like I don't reduce the screen brightness I don't do anything it 00:15:44.680 --> 00:15:52.800 just works also you have the incredible benefit of Windows modern standby not 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:57.000 really being an issue because uh I made the video on that this is my personal 00:15:54.839 --> 00:16:02.480 laptop I had some problems and I have a direct line to Microsoft so uh it's 00:15:59.759 --> 00:16:06.639 actually like very solved on this device specifically so uh thank you guys for 00:16:04.680 --> 00:16:12.839 solving my problem at least now for upgradeability this thing is not 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:14.880 fantastic we are able to replace the SSD 00:16:12.839 --> 00:16:19.160 so we can come in right here lift up this little shieldy Shield there it is 00:16:17.079 --> 00:16:23.560 so you can upgrade your storage although I would be careful if you do that 00:16:21.680 --> 00:16:28.040 because some of these drives do come encrypted and it might get really super 00:16:25.680 --> 00:16:31.279 mad at you if you swap it out just make sure that like your bit Locker settings 00:16:29.440 --> 00:16:37.079 and stuff are all sorted before you get into that also we have our 5G antenna 00:16:33.920 --> 00:16:39.480 right here we also have our Intel Wi-Fi 00:16:37.079 --> 00:16:44.120 card over here so unfortunately this is soldered down you can't upgrade it but 00:16:42.040 --> 00:16:47.040 also I don't know if you don't want 5G anymore I guess you could throw a 00:16:45.519 --> 00:16:51.680 wireless card over here that would be kind of dumb there's no RAM upgrade 00:16:49.120 --> 00:16:55.600 ability uh the cooler is not particularly large single heat pipe 00:16:53.519 --> 00:17:00.120 right here I don't really care it's a thin and light this is the only thing 00:16:57.600 --> 00:17:07.679 that matters but of course the worst thing about the old one was the price 00:17:03.079 --> 00:17:11.199 this one my old one came in at $3 00:17:07.679 --> 00:17:14.199 $700 and that's because of like Intel 00:17:11.199 --> 00:17:17.280 vro that allows you to like manage the 00:17:14.199 --> 00:17:19.720 device remotely your it Department can 00:17:17.280 --> 00:17:25.640 set up 40 of them at once if they want to that sort of stuff and also like 00:17:22.679 --> 00:17:31.360 Security Options and crap there's a good chance that you don't want any of that 00:17:27.919 --> 00:17:34.720 the one that we have here starts at 00:17:31.360 --> 00:17:38.240 1769 and aspect is 00:17:34.720 --> 00:17:40.480 2279 which is quite expensive but let's 00:17:38.240 --> 00:17:44.360 just go over to hp's website for a second and uh we can see that they say 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:50.160 it starts at $1,200 which is a lot a lot better let's 00:17:47.559 --> 00:17:56.640 look at the one that I would want to purchase we can go in here Core i5 is 00:17:53.919 --> 00:18:00.320 fine i7 is nice but I actually just don't care it's a thin and light you 00:17:58.159 --> 00:18:03.760 might get a tiny bit more battery now the most expensive option that we're 00:18:01.840 --> 00:18:07.559 going to be putting on here is the touchcreen so I really like the 00:18:05.320 --> 00:18:11.080 anti-glare touch screen that's the one that we have on both of these it is 00:18:09.400 --> 00:18:15.919 absolutely fantastic but if you don't want that you 00:18:13.799 --> 00:18:21.400 can get it cheaper if you don't go for the anti-glare and so the one that I'll 00:18:18.400 --> 00:18:21.400 be buying comes in at 00:18:21.720 --> 00:18:29.679 $1,455 all right let's get a comparable MacBook Air here we've got the M2 not 00:18:27.080 --> 00:18:33.919 the good CPU cuz I don't know Intel is kind of slow these days you need 16 GB 00:18:32.120 --> 00:18:40.320 of memory no matter what Apple tells you they are liars if they say that 8 GB is 00:18:36.280 --> 00:18:42.919 enough 512 GB SSD that's $1,500 so uh 00:18:40.320 --> 00:18:48.440 yeah for that price I'm getting the HP for sure so yeah dragonfly G4 uh if you 00:18:46.280 --> 00:18:52.919 already have a G3 you're not going to upgrade most likely but probably most of 00:18:50.640 --> 00:18:56.840 you don't so if you're looking for a laptop that's thin and light and has 00:18:54.640 --> 00:19:01.720 heaps of battery and its Windows this is in my opinion the Absol best that exists 00:18:59.880 --> 00:19:08.919 just like you're the absolute best that exists hit like get subscribed and just 00:19:04.600 --> 00:19:08.919 have a fantastic all day see you later