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Expert’s Rating

Pros

• Lightweight
• Long battery life
• 5G
• Bright, high-contrast show
• 3:2 facet ratio
• Privacy filter

Our Verdict

The present model of the Dragonfly G4 stays an impressive pocket book for touring since you hardly should make any compromises for the low weight. It combines a really lengthy battery life with sensible pace, an excellent albeit viewing angle-limited show, and a comparatively giant variety of ports.

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Road warrior, hybrid employee, enterprise traveler. There are numerous phrases for individuals who work extra on the highway than at their desk. HP is addressing this goal group with the Dragonfly G4. In the fourth era, HP has outfitted its light-weight pocket book with a Core i7 from Intel’s Raptor Lake era–aside from that, little has modified.

The Dragonfly weighs just below 2.64 kilos and is housed in a sturdy blue-grey casing produced from a magnesium-aluminium combine. The materials floor has a nice grip as it’s barely roughened. As the corners and edges are rounded, the Dragonfly can be painless to select up. You can open the show 180 levels with one hand. Read on to be taught extra.

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HP Dragonfly G4: Small pocket book, a great deal of connections

Considering its compact type issue, the Dragonfly is nicely outfitted: Above all, it has extra ports than different ultra-mobile lightweights, which frequently solely provide Type-C with Thunderbolt 4. The Dragonfly additionally has two of those 40 Gbps ports for connecting the ability provide unit amongst different issues. However, there’s additionally an HDMI 2.1 output and a USB Type A socket.

The HP pocket book comes with loads of business-ready extras, too. In addition to WLAN with Wi-Fi 6E, you may as well go browsing on the go by way of the built-in 5G module. The slot for the nano-SIM card on the left-hand facet of the casing might be conveniently eliminated with out opening instruments.

You can log in utilizing your finger by way of a sensor button on the backside proper of the keyboard or by way of the complete HD digital camera. Its lens might be closed with a particular button, however automated logging out and in of the pocket book by way of HP’s Auto-Lock & Awake nonetheless works as a result of this perform acknowledges the person by way of a proximity sensor.

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You can even use the F2 key to limit the show’s viewing angle. This Sure View privateness filter is designed to stop nosy neighbors on trains and planes from catching operational or different secrets and techniques with a fast look on the display.

The underside of the housing might be simply opened after eradicating 4 screws. The battery, SSD, and mobile module might be changed. However, the RAM and WLAN {hardware} are soldered on.

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The Core i7-1355U within the Dragonfly delivers the standard pace for a cost-effective processor from the U-series: The efficiency is completely ample for workplace functions and for many multimedia applications. It simply isn’t made for demanding video modifying and rendering functions. This is as a result of the hybrid CPU can’t actually decide up pace as a result of thermal circumstances within the compact casing. It calculates round ten p.c slower in Cinebench R23, for instance, than in a bigger 15-inch pocket book.

The pace benefit over the predecessor Dragonfly G3 with Alder Lake CPU is round 10 p.c, somewhat extra for multimedia, rather less for Office. However, in comparison with knowledgeable multimedia pocket book with GPU such because the Lenovo Yoga Pro 9i, the pace deficit is simply vital when, as in rendering, the CPU and graphics card are required to work collectively. During regular work with images and movies, the lag is often solely round ten p.c as a result of the Dragonfly is provided with a beneficiant 32GB of RAM.

The two small followers within the HP pocket book are quiet even below a heavy load. However, they ceaselessly change their rotational pace, which causes the working noise to fluctuate and disturb delicate customers greater than when the followers rotate somewhat sooner however at a continuing quantity.

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HP Dragonfly G4: Battery life will final you a protracted journey

An ultra-mobile enterprise pocket book is outlined above all by its weight and battery life. The Dragonfly impresses in each disciplines. In addition to its low weight, it has an impressive battery lifetime of 17.5 hours within the WLAN check. The battery capability is 68 Wh, in the event you’re curious.

HP Dragonfly G4: The show is right for workplace use

The 13.5-inch display has a side ratio of three:2. This is sensible for workplace work, as the extra vertical pixels will let you see extra content material from textual content paperwork and web sites, for instance, than with 16:9 or 16:10. The decision of 1920×1280 just isn’t exceptionally excessive, however is ample for normal workplace functions.

In the check, the Dragonfly shines with a really excessive brightness and glorious distinction. The latter makes textual content and spreadsheet work extra nice whereas the previous, together with the anti-reflective show floor, makes picture content material simple to learn even in tough lighting circumstances. The Dragonfly can even robotically modify its brightness to altering mild circumstances utilizing a sensor.

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The luminance just isn’t evenly distributed, because the brightness decreases considerably from high to backside. However, that is much less noticeable on the small display than on a big monitor. What is straight away noticeable, nevertheless, is the show’s dependence on the viewing angle.

Even in the event you haven’t activated “Sure View”, the picture instantly loses distinction and colour saturation in case you are not sitting in entrance of it optimally. Nevertheless, the display might be tilted flexibly in order that customers of any top can discover the best viewing angle.

HP Dragonfly G4: The keyboard and touchpad are designed for frequent typists and clickers

A high keyboard rounds off the Dragonfly G4’s workplace suitability. The keys are comparatively giant for this kind issue. What’s particularly pleasing is the very pronounced strain level that every one keys have throughout the complete keyboard floor together with the house bar. As is common with ultrabooks, the arrow keys will not be positioned individually and the up and down keys are mixed within the measurement of 1 key.

The touchpad additionally impresses with clear strain suggestions. It even stays very quiet when the mouse is clicked. The Dragonfly’s floor strikes the proper stability between grip and pace. You can place the mouse pointer exactly or let it whiz shortly throughout the show as required.

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This article was translated from German to English and initially appeared on pcwelt.de.