This is the best laptop. Just plain and simple for not every single use case,
but my use case. And that's the one that matters the most to me.
Let's have a look. This is the HP Dragonfly Elite.
And I have been using the G3 for the past year
and it's absolutely fantastic.
All the new ones much better. Not just because it's new, but it's way cheaper.
Like $2,500 cheaper.
Like a lot, a lot cheaper. Let's get into it.
This one's probably actually half similar, but we can figure out what the exact spec is.
This is a nice box. I've never seen one of these fancy boxes before.
These are business laptops and you actually have to pay like an extra $10
for the premium unboxing experience. I haven't gotten it before.
Ho-ho! You can go over there for a second. Here we go.
Chargers nice and simple. 65 Watts, that's being delivered over USB Type-C.
And it's a nice little size. I think also this premium cable here
is an extra $5 if you wanna pay for it. Unlike Dell, they don't give you a dongle in the box
because they give you IO. Oh, I like this here. They do give you the option of from the factory.
It can come loaded with Linux or FreeDOS and then you don't have to pay for the Windows license.
And also you just don't have to deal with Microsoft at all if you don't want to.
The first thing that they denote, number one, are the internal wireless antennas.
I'm sure that's the most important thing.
This is too long, that's a paper work. What?
It's too long on the paperwork, but then how will the people know
that this has NFC tapping area on the touchpad?
That's actually pretty important if you're in like high security places.
I am sad though. It looks like HP sent over the silver when they have this nice like dark gray version.
That just looks so much better. Okay, okay.
All right.
Wow, they have not changed a thing,
which is really okay by me because this thing's great.
Let's have a little look around here. So first of all, it comes with an all magnesium chassis
that is just super rigid and also very light.
All right, it is 1.2 kilograms or 2.7 pounds.
I think that's slightly heavier than this one actually. Oh no, the old one's slightly heavier.
Must be the D-Buranskin. Probably my absolute favorite thing about this laptop
is that it is a thin and light, but it has solid IO.
So here we have got Thunderbolt 4, USB type A,
and headphone microphone combo jack. Around the other side, we have Thunderbolt 4 again,
a 5G SIM card slot, and HDMI 2.1.
I have to say the inclusion of USB type A
and HDMI has made my life just so much easier.
Like it's not very hard putting a dongle in your backpack, but it's a lot easier to just not have to use a dongle
in the first place. Here we can see again, that nice magnesium chassis.
It is one of the stiffest on the market.
It isn't quite up there with like Apple or Razer
in terms of stiffness, but I do think it is up there with them in terms of just overall feel and quality.
And actually, I kind of like the feel of this a bit more.
Probably my favorite feature with the design though
are what they call their pillow block corners. Right here, it's just nice and rounded over
and every single time that I go at CES or Computex
to someone's booth that has a laptop, I'm like, hey guys, that's really nice how you have sharp edges here
that look like kind of cool on camera for your like marketing materials.
I hate it, it's awful. When you're like holding your laptop like this,
do you know how nice it is to have rounded corners? It's fantastic, it's so comfortable.
It's actually one of my favorite features. I guess we could continue talking about the build quality
of this one, but I've been using this one for a year
and how has it held up? I've lightly damaged the finish in a couple of spots
like you can see like there's a ding there, couple little scratches there,
but overall after a year of pretty hard use, no complaints.
The first thing that's awesome about this computer is the display.
So it has a three by two, so 1920 by 1280 on this one,
or you can get the 3000 by 2000 version
if you go with the OLED panel, but I really think you should stick with the 1080 one.
First of all, it gets you three to four hours
more battery life than OLED, which is just massive, absolutely huge.
And my favorite thing about this is definitely the battery life.
So I am not willing to sacrifice that for better visuals.
Also, here we have a matte display,
which is just, there's not enough of them. There's not nearly enough of them.
Now the panel itself for watching content and creating content and that stuff is only okay.
HP advertises 400 nits peak brightness,
but in our testing, we are only able to find 340 nits,
which is going to be noticeable. That said though, I have been able to use this
indirect sunlight, but only for like using Microsoft Word
and Word editing. I cannot watch YouTube videos in direct sunlight.
Also pretty awful on this panel is pixel response time.
We're looking at 32 to 54 milliseconds.
That is brutal. Like it's a sort of thing where like even just the mouse
mousing around like this, I can very easily tell that the latency on this display
is bad or watching YouTube videos even.
I can tell at the pixel response time is just not good.
It's not good enough. If you want to play games on this, don't.
It's awful. So if the brightness isn't great
and the pixel response times aren't great, why am I saying this is fantastic?
Well, very simply because I can write word documents
on this for like 12 hours straight and I do not get eye strain.
We've got the Mac display. We have got just, it looks like paper
and it also is color accurate to boot. So we saw an average Delta E of 2.24,
a max of 4.42. That isn't quite the average Delta E of two
that you would want for professional color work, but I don't do that.
I just need to check stuff and know that it's going to be broadly accurate.
And this is more than good enough for that. Also like you could just calibrate it.
Another reason this is in my opinion, the best laptop on the market is because of the keyboard.
It is simply put the best. There is no better keyboard on a laptop
in existence right now, in my opinion.
It's an A plus. It's an A plus plus if I could give that.
Normally when I'm talking about laptop keyboards, sort of like an A minus
is when you can get up to full speed, but maybe it isn't the most satisfying.
That's something like the MacBook Pro. It's legitimately a good keyboard.
If you can't type fast on it, that's your problem, but I just don't love it.
When you get into the A, we're looking at like, you know, the stability of every single key is good.
The travel is good. The feel is good. To get that A plus, you need that just extra,
I don't even know what you would call it, but it is this keyboard right here.
It has almost like a desktop feel to it
that I don't know how they were able to achieve,
but once we get our keyboard tester up and running, I'm sure that it will validate me
because like, if we look here, like the key stability is absolutely incredible.
I'm pushing on the corner on a lot of laptops. You'll see this whole key sort of flexed down.
This right here, I'm getting none of that. The whole key presses when you're pressing on the corner.
Also, the consistency from side to side
is absolutely flawless. The force required to press these keys
is identical across pretty much the whole thing,
which is of course aided by the excellent chassis rigidity
of this magnesium frame. It is absolutely fantastic.
Another thing that's great is the track pad. I don't think that it stands out a whole lot
in the way that the keyboard does. It's instead just great.
Like I have never once thought about the track pad when I've been using the laptop because it just works.
It is glass topped. I do wish that they had integrated force
like Apple or Dell or MSM. Most people have force clicking at this point
and that can be quite good. And I do really appreciate that you're able to tune it.
This, you can't do any of that, but at the same time, it's accurate, it's glass topped.
Feels good to use, I like it. I didn't mention it before,
but you can plug in the power charger on either side,
which is just so convenient. You can be there, you can be there, love it.
Moving over to performance though, in here we have an Intel i7-1365U,
which is 10 cores, which sounds like a lot,
but it's actually two performance cores and eight efficiency.
And in my experience using a laptop, which has a 1265U, which is basically the same
as the 1365U, it's not particularly fast.
Like in a lot of things, like even web browsing at times
can feel just a little bit slow when you compare it to other laptops.
Like it's not that like, it doesn't have that like snappiness
that some of them do. But at the same time, compared to like a dual core thin
and light from a couple of years ago, this absolutely destroys it.
Like if you compare this to basically any like 11th gen
laptop chip, this thing will on its face.
Okay, let's see here, running Cinebench R23.
I want to beat the i7-7700K, that's 6300 points.
And in my mind, that's like the last, that was like when Intel peaked just before AMD came in
and started making them look kind of silly. Oh my God, we just beat it.
All right, cool. This thing was able to get 7254 points
and Cinebench R23. And I think that there are some stupid Windows
is trying to update or stuff in the background at the moment. But overall, if like you need to export stuff on this,
it isn't brutal. It is still a thin and light, but you can do the stuff.
Here are the results that we got from the Labs.
There are the graphs. It's more than powerful enough for me.
Like we can look here. Oh, watch it, watch this. No dongle.
Boom, we're screen recording my laptop now. Ha ha.
Like this isn't anything crazy, but this is a SOLIDWORKS model
that I was able to build on this computer and not have any issues with it.
It's only a couple of components and they're all pretty simple.
But at the same time, this thing can do it, no problem.
Moving on from the processor, we also have 16 gigabytes of RAM
running at 4,800 megatransvers per second. We have a 500 Gigabyte NBME SSD from Samsung.
Intel Wi-Fi 6E, love to see that.
And of course, Iris Xe graphics. This isn't a gaming laptop, but uh...
We proceeded to play games anyway. This is bad.
I don't like it at all. What I am seeing though is that this is not a good gaming experience.
Like aside from the frame rate only being okay-ish,
the pixel response time is just a complete no-go for a game like this.
It's actually hard to figure out what's on the go.
Everything just feels like it's in slow motion. It is not enjoyable.
This panel is not capable of updating fast enough for gameplay.
Like it just feels so jello-y and generally terrible.
Don't game on it. It's an office laptop. The speakers on this are from Bang & Olufsen
and they are fantastic. They have been the benchmark for the last year
for pretty much all of the other laptops. You guys have heard them a bunch.
Let's just sniff them one more time. That's loud.
What if they've improved? Yeah, that's good, that's good stuff right there.
How does it compare to the old Dragonfly Elite?
Good.
It's the same, which is excellent because I've compared this old one to a bunch of different laptops
and it is very favorable in almost every single matchup
even when compared to laptops that are twice its size with twice as many speakers.
It's not just pretty loud and has decent extension but it has a lot of clarity.
So something like the MacBook Air has more bass
and like a bit more of a V-curve whereas this right here seems a lot more focused on
like clarity of voice and stuff like that
in the speaker tuning. I quite appreciate it, it's awesome.
Webcam, it's great. So this right here is a 1440P webcam.
You very rarely see that on laptops
and overall it just does an excellent job. Like look here, it's exposing for my face.
We move around, it is still just exposing
pretty much perfectly for my face. It's a little bit hot there but it probably will figure it out, maybe.
Okay, it isn't but it still is doing a pretty good job.
Also, what is fantastic and I really, really like about this webcam
is you press right here, boop, she's gone. You've got a tiny little shutter right here,
tiny little shutter that goes across there so you know that no one's gonna be spying on you
and there also is a hard button for the microphone caught off and you can now probably not hear me.
Four Torx T5 screws later and we are in thank you HP so much
for making getting into this simple. They can be kind of bad for sticking screws
underneath this plastic foot right here and once you take this off once
it never goes back on correctly again. So thank you very much for not making us have to destroy these.
In here, the star of the show is a 68.4 watt hour battery.
Now, there are other brands that have larger capacity batteries
in similarly like sized and weighted laptops
but HP's tuning of just all of the power consumption in this
is absolutely exceptional. This thing right here in our endurance testing for Labs
was able to get 13 hours and 21 minutes.
Now with the stress test, it did die in two hours and 30 minutes
but you realistically are not fully loading this ever.
I have had no trouble at all getting like a solid 12 hours
of battery life out of this and not even trying. Like I don't reduce the screen brightness,
I don't do anything, it just works. Also, you have the incredible benefit
of Windows Modern Standby not really being an issue
because I made the video on that. This is my personal laptop.
I had some problems and I have a direct line to Microsoft so it's actually like very solved on this device specifically.
So thank you guys for solving my problem at least. Now for upgrade ability, this thing is not fantastic.
You are able to replace the SSD so we can come in right here,
lift up this little shieldy shield. There it is, so you can upgrade your storage.
Although I would be careful if you do that because some of these drives do come encrypted
and it might get really super mad at you if you swap it out.
Just make sure that like your bit locker settings and stuff are all sorted before you get into that.
Also, we have our 5G antenna right here. We also have our Intel Wi-Fi card over here.
So unfortunately this is soldered down, you can't upgrade it but also I don't know
if you don't want 5G anymore I guess you could throw a wireless card over here.
That would be kind of dumb. There's no where I'm upgrade ability.
The cooler is not particularly large single heat pipe right here.
I don't really care, it's a thin and light. This is the only thing that matters.
But of course the worst thing about the old one was the price.
This one, my old one came in at $3,700.
And that's because of like Intel V Pro
that allows you to like manage the device remotely.
Your IT department can set up 40 of them at once
if they want to, that sort of stuff. And also like security options and crap
is a good chance that you don't want any of that. The one that we have here starts at 1769
and aspect is 2279, which is quite expensive.
But let's just go over to HP's website for a second
and we can see that they say it starts at $1,200
which is a lot, a lot better. Let's look at the one that I would want to purchase.
We can go in here, Core i5 spine, i7's nice
but I actually just don't care, it's thin and light. You might get a tiny bit more battery.
Now the most expensive option that we're going to be putting on here is the touchscreen.
So I really like the anti-glare touchscreen. That's the one that we have on both of these.
It is absolutely fantastic.
But if you don't want that, you can get it cheaper if you don't go for the anti-glare.
And so the one that I'll be buying comes in at $1,455.
All right, let's get a comparable MacBook Air here. We've got the M2, not the good CPU
because I don't know Intel's kind of slow these days. You need 16 gigabytes of memory
no matter what Apple tells you, they are liars. If they say that eight gigabytes is enough,
five 12 Gigabyte SSD, that's $1,500.
So yeah, for that price, I'm getting the HP for sure.
So yeah, Dragonfly G4. If you already have a G3, you're not gonna upgrade
most likely, but probably most of you don't. So if you're looking for a laptop that's thin and light
and has heaps of battery in its Windows, this is in my opinion the absolute best that exists.
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