The Dragonfly's screen gets pretty bright, too, emitting up to 373 nits. That score narrowly beats the 106% rating from the ThinkPad X1 Yoga and the 100% from the MacBook Air. The Dragonfly's 13.3-inch, 1920 x 1080-pixel screen proved to be a great panel for watching the Bond flick No Time to Die's trailer, as I could see each small smudge on Daniel Craig's face, enjoy the icy blues of his eyes and catch the verdant trees in a landscape behind a bridge that 007 was rappelling off of.Īccording to our colorimeter, the Dragonfly produces 117% of the sRGB spectrum, which approaches the 122% premium laptop average and competes closely with the 113% score from the XPS 13 2-in-1. HP Elite Dragonfly display: As pretty as its shell Those tests checked the machine's ability to survive drops, extreme temperatures (both high and low), blasts of sand and other accidental damage. The Dragonfly, like all of HP's Elite-model business laptops, has passed 19 MIL-STD-810 tests, ensuring that it's not going to bend or break under pressure. It's not the first webcam shutter ever, but it's the first I've seen that actually looks neat. But the Dragonfly also goes above and beyond with its physical webcam guard, which is an elegantly small switch that signifies your privacy by covering that hole with a two-tone circle of diagonal lines. On top of that, there's a fingerprint reader below the bottom right corner of the keyboard.
HP's also bestowed its self-healing BIOS technology, so your computer can fight low-level attacks. Thankfully, the HP Elite Dragonfly doesn't settle for the bare minimum.įirst off, the Dragonfly packs processors with Intel's vPro technology, a table-stakes-level feature that's there for IT pros to offer remote management help. With business laptops, there are basics and there are cool perks in ruggedization and security features that help convince companies they're making a solid investment. The best keyboards let you hit the ground running, and the HP Dragonfly has one of my favorites. That material is used in the speaker box of the Dragonfly, and HP marks this as only part of the beginning of the company's efforts to use recycled materials. One thing you won't notice with your eye but that will make you tip your cap to HP is that the Dragonfly is the first laptop with ocean-bound plastics (recycled materials that would typically be headed to the ocean) inside of its shell (Dell's used the material in its packaging before). Also, HP's provided an oleophobic coating to the Dragonfly's machined metal shell, making it easy to wipe away any smudges. I've tested other magnesium-shell machines in the past, but unlike them, the Dragonfly doesn't buckle or bend when you grip or apply pressure, thanks to internal reinforcements. What's amazing about this laptop's lightweight design, though, is that the machine doesn't feel flimsy for it.
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From its striking hue to its slight silver accent touches and a very grippable texture, this is a laptop whose appearance I can't crack a joke about (and I love to make fun of any gaps in designs).Īt a surprisingly light 2.5 pounds and at 0.6 inches in thickness, the Elite Dragonfly makes the Dell XPS 13 2-in-1 (2.9 pounds, 0.5 inches), Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Yoga (3 pounds, 0.6 inches) and Apple MacBook Air (2.8 pounds, 0.6 inches) seem hefty by comparison. The HP Dragonfly, named after the shade of blue that HP painted the machine, is a 2-in-1 laptop so beautiful that it could influence the generation of notebooks that follows it. The HP Dragonfly is a laptop so beautiful that it could influence the generation of notebooks that follows it.
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