for the last couple of months I've been using this HP dragonfly Elite and it is
fantastic exceptional laptop I absolutely love it only problem is this
right here is thirty seven hundred dollars I want to recommend it to all of
you guys but I cannot because of that price tag fortunately though HP has made
the dragonfly Pro it's apparently the
same basic thing but at a price you can afford maybe before we look at the pro I
want to just go over the stuff that I love about the elite so first of all the
pillow Corners right here oh my God they feel good you can just have this in your
hand be ripping around with it it is fantastic everyone at CES I went to
their booth and was like guys screw off with all the sharp edges I
want nice rounded ones also IO is great coming from some Dells it's really nice
to have USB type a HDMI use those all
the time and finally it's very very light so I can be ripping around with
this in my backpack it has like 14 hours of battery life fantastic if they can
hit most of those I will be very happy with the pro
all right what do we have for power
96. so right here we have a 96 watt
charger which for something of this size is really good that should be able to
charge up the battery super fast
we also have a very nice type c chord along with it
so that's actually an upgrade on the elite you get a 65 watt charger and on
the pro it is 96 that is going to be really great because even the 65 watt
I've found is very good at fast charging so good job HP
hmm Now by using magnesium the pro is
able to hit 2.8 pounds so that is pretty
darn good what do we have for the pro
3.4 that is quite a bit heavier
especially for like a 14 inch ultra light that's a
not quite ultra light anymore maybe it
has the power to make up for it though it does have an AMD processor
HP for the i o
we get Thunderbolt 4 and Thunderbolt 4 and around the other side
USB type-c I want to just walk into whatever
engineer or corporate person at HP did this and take it in the top of their
this is unforgivable guys for the last
couple of years the one thing I have loved about HP is they have been making
devices that feel like they were actually used by the people that make
them this right here it doesn't have like it's not the thinnest it's not the
lightest and they could have improved both of those things if they had just a
little bit less i o but oh my God I
absolutely love having like USB type A and 3.5 millimeter headphone jack
but instead they've gone full Dell on us doesn't even have a headphone jack guys
no please just just stop do not do that
ever again what do you think immediate disqualification dnf stop the video
Jake says to get air pods which is stupid because this right here is
spilled as a Pro laptop for creators and
gen Z and all of that crap and do you know what creators really like to do
have their audio be in sync with their video if they are editing audio and
video at the same time do you know what doesn't do that Bluetooth because it has
to do stupid streaming program it does not have anywhere near the latency that
just simple wire does or the quality or the general convenience are you telling
the airpods pro the H the airpods pro are as Pro as this
all right well hopefully they didn't screw up the build quality let's see
here
one finger not approved to open it what is a good sign though is that this
chassis is extremely rigid so they have
gone from magnesium alloy to aluminum but honestly that is fine in my opinion
because it just drops the price by so much and it feels like that they have at
least done a very good job of making
this very very steward might even be stiffer than the elite
it is virtually identical it looks like the track pads have stayed almost
identical although the pro is slightly
larger so the elite we get a 13 and a
half inch screen although on the pro it is a full 14 inches which is why it is
ever so slightly wider another thing I really like about the pro is the color
it is just black but at the same time I
think it looks pretty darn good one thing that can be a problem with a black
device though are fingerprints so you
can see on the silver right here I can do this all day you cannot tell just how
dirty and sweaty I am whereas with the
pro let's see
this is rejecting fingerprints fantastically it's not quite the same as
that ASUS one with their fancy plasma whatever coating but this is pretty darn
good if you look really really close I
don't know if we're going to be able to get this but in the black it isn't just matte
black but there's like tiny gold specks
in it that just adds kind of a little bit of dimensionality that's quite nice
apparently it's called Sparkling black one final test before we turn it on
panel rigidity which is oh this one's really good this is a
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description to check out secret Labs today first thing that I'm noticing is
that I'm getting a lot of glare of the lights behind me now one of my absolute
favorite things about the dragonfly Elite is that it has an option of a Mac
display just look at the difference here when I have it aimed at the light so
this right here has the glossy display you can just see my head in the light
whereas on the mat nothing at all if you have like a really nice dark area where
you mostly do your stuff then sure glossy looks way better another thing
that I really really liked about the elite that a lot of other HP laptops
have not had is that the keyboard is like perfectly centered on your trackpad
this is because a lot of them have macro keys on the side moves the whole thing
over a little bit and then it's just kind of awkward because you're a little
bit off to the side on the pro they've brought that back and they've brought it
back in the worst way imaginable so not only is the whole keyboard shifted to
the left by a key because you have macro
Keys over here but they are freaking useless so here we hit the first one
and it opens up the my HP Center which is totally fine there's actually a lot
of quite useful stuff in here the problem is that let's hit the second one
it takes us to a different tab of the exact same software now let's uh hit the
one below it it takes me to another tab in the exact
same software let's hit the final one that one actually does whatever you want
it's programmable so good job there but uh the other ones I do not need a
dedicated support key what is much more crucial that they get right though is
the keyboard on the elite this right here in my mind is an A plus plus
keyboard and given that I am a writer who writes things for a living that is
the most important part about this device I have never on any other laptop
felt a keyboard that I like as much as this one because there's just heaps of
travel heaps of feedback it just feels
so good love it
it's not as good I'm gonna need to type on it for a second here to figure out if
it's just worse than the best or
actually not good okay this is actually a fantastic
keyboard it just does not have the qualities that I was hoping for with the
dragonfly name so this right here has these super duper light super Snappy
keys that have very little travel but they are extremely well supported so
look I'm like I'm pushing on the side of this key I can barely get it to move
before it fully actuates and I do have to say it is a very very good keyboard
that said though one thing that is a
massive Improvement on the pro is they have media keys so one of my big
complaints about the elite is that it does not have pause play or next track
track back and it instead has like airplane mode
I do not use airplane mode ever even when I'm on planes so
having just pause play very very nice to see I was slightly concerned when I
thought they had a force touchpad on this device just because I haven't seen
one from HP before and sometimes they screw up the track pads but this is very
very good so you're able to change your touchpad feedback so if you maybe want a
little bit more Force you can feel it way more or you can
knock it down a bit if you just want a tiny bit you can probably even hear it
if I lift it up to the mic it is quite satisfying and also the
tracking seems great so good job HP I
will be recommending your force touchpads from now on one area that's a
little bit of a side grade is the display the thing that I really liked
about the dragonfly Elite is that it has a 3x2 display which just gives you even
more vertical space and when you live in Word documents that is great on the
dragonfly Pro we've been knocked down to 16 by nine but at the same time it's now
14 inches instead of 13 and a half I think it evens out at the end of the day
resolution is 1920 by 1200p which is
like you might want a little bit more resolution but at the same time it'll be
hitting your battery life and this is very much a machine of both the battery
life our Labs tested it and the pro gets a brightness of 413 nits whereas the
elite only gets 370. despite both of
them being advertised as 400. both is pretty darn good though shockingly the
contrast is identical between the two even though looking at them it's seems
like the glossy display has just way way more contrast what is incredibly
interesting though is that the pro is way more color accurate our lab measured
and average Delta e of 2.7 on the pro which is not quite at the two that you
would expect for professional devices but it is very close and it's much
better than the 4.4 that we measured on the elite the problem with the elite is
that it seems to have a bit of a magenta shift to it whereas the pro Just Hits it
right on that said they're both more than good enough if you want to be like
reviewing videos or editing photos stuff
like that you can trust them for the specs on the pro you get a ryzen 7
7736u which is 8 core 16 threads we have
16 gigabytes of RAM that is rated at
6400 Mega transfers per second that is
fast we also have a 512 Gigabyte SSD Wi-Fi 6E
yes oh but it's a Qualcomm adapter so maybe not as good as the Intel one and
for the GPU of course it's just AMD integrated our Labs went ahead and
tested this thing against the elite which does have 12th gen V Pro but at
the same time that is still pretty recent and uh
the pro Slaughters it like absolute
murder the AMD processor that we have in
the Pro is exceptional so we were able
to record very similar cinebench scores wave to Flack encoding but if you're
using av1 encoding the AMD processor just absolutely murders the Intel one
also in games while uh you're not going to be having an amazing time like in
Shadow of the Tomb Raider we got 25 FPS on this one with the Intel we got five
the most impressive thing that we tested though was the battery life so we tested
it with full brightness doing a YouTube video and the elite was able to get 10
hours which is good and by dropping down
the brightness a bit I have been able to get like 12 13 out of this no problem
even 14 if I really try
the pro with the battery at full took 14
hours and 15 minutes to die that is
MacBook M1 levels of battery and also it
is very very close to the M1 in terms of
like encoding and general performance I've had no issues just not charging
this thing for like an entire week which I have not been able to do on anything
aside for a Macbook and I expect this right here will be even better I
freaking love it thank you AMD now one thing that has been very surprising
about the elite is just how good the speakers are given how small this thing
is I'm curious if the pro can live up to that
so far so good
extortion though okay okay that's pretty good
the speakers are pretty good but it can not live up to the elite it lacks the
clarity and the bass that you get in this one but at the same time these are
pretty darn good speakers for a thin and like laptop these are good I'd give it
like an A minus maybe but it's not hitting the a plus of the elite oh I
need to make sure that it's in performance mode hotkey
maybe HP if you're going to go the Dell
route and not include actual i o on your laptop at least be nice like them and
include the dongles that you need to like use your devices with it alright
five minutes later we can plug in our Mouse
oh this is this is looking good this is
looking good right here we are at 1200 p and we are currently
hitting 53 FPS that is
very very good for a device of this size like this is obviously not a gaming
laptop it is nowhere close to being a gaming laptop
but at the same time it has got some darn good performance and it feels like
the latency of the display is really quite good too we didn't test it but on
the elite it is dog slow the panel on
that is just it feels like a geriatric old man just when you try and make the
pixel switch they're just like uh great
to still Gray
it's really bad this is so much better we've been playing for a little while
now too and it is not very loud these
fans are very reasonable and especially when you compare it to the HP Elite it
absolutely murders it in gaming performance actually just it murders it
in performance is a pretty good way to summarize it I am very very impressed
with the amdu series they have been killing it with efficiency and power
lately on the HP dragonfly Pro we get
the same 5 megapixel camera that you do on the elite and it is a very good
camera we're recording this at 1440p right now HP is probably the company
that I think does the best job at always exposing for your face so you can see
right here I am moving all around in these really quite challenging
environment and it is having no trouble making sure that I you know look like a
person a little bit hot there nope it figured it out perfect on either side of
the webcam we also have Windows hello facial recognition and if you don't want
to use that we also have a fingerprint reiterate up here oh does this have a
little okay so they have a hard switch right
here for disabling your camera but it
doesn't have the little shutter you can see on the elite but I really appreciate
that they have a tiny little shutter there
there it is up cam no webcam
it's very satisfying
huh is that a vapor chamber oh well there isn't a whole lot on the go
in here besides battery so 63 Watt hours
is exceptional for something of this size there are some that are currently
getting up to more like 75 but HP are
very very good about their battery optimizations so in the end of the day
this right here does have the battery battery life like we said before 14
hours and 15 minutes is freaking
exceptional and just fantastic job guys
also in here we have this massive Vapor chamber which is probably why we were
able to get such good performance in games but uh I don't see an upgradable
SSD on a device of this size I can
Let It Go with soldered RAM because it
just you know getting those sodiums on there adds a lot of height and also you
can have much faster RAM when it's soldered down which this is soldered SSD
sucks it is kind of annoying because one thing that the commenters brought up in
one of our recent videos is that these companies will talk about how great they
are for the environment and then they just solder everything down there and if
you want to repair it I don't know go get it so the HP dragonfly Pro I have
not been this disappointed in a laptop in a very long time simply because they
are so close to having an absolutely
amazing laptop here literally all they had to do was just have USB type a HDMI
and a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack and I would have told literally everyone to
go out and buy this but instead I cannot
and it makes me very mad they could have eliminated completely just castrated
Dell here their X ps13 and 13 plus
stupid laptops so dumb and I would have
been very happy to be like hey Dell that
was clearly stupid everybody should go buy HP now but instead I can't because
they have this this right here guys please I'm so mad I want a laptop like
this one overall I think it is a really good
laptop like the performance and the battery life cannot be found outside of
MacBooks and for that like excellent job
HP if only you had stuck The Landing I would have told everyone to go buy this
it's 1400 bucks that's pretty expensive but this one's 37 so I don't know big
Improvement there the biggest problem is that HP themselves have many a device
that because of the I O is just simply
better than this they have their Specter lineup which has you know sort of silly
edges but overall very very good they
have their Envy lineup which is way way
cheaper also has AMD processors available and also has good I O so yeah
I don't know go get an HP Envy those are just better laptops thank you so much
for watching hit like get subscribed and I don't know go and tell everybody that
you still need USB type A because uh nobody seems to know that have a good
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