The business PC house could be sluggish to catch as much as the patron house on the subject of design and next-gen options. However HP thinks it has an answer for enterprise customers who need a laptop computer that appears simply pretty much as good as it really works and would not sacrifice professional options to take action. The HP Elitebook Dragonfly, regardless of its playful identify, would not mess around with its top-tier specs, and at simply 2.2 kilos, it is one of many lightest enterprise notebooks you will discover.

The “dragonfly” identify refers back to the gadget’s ultra-light weight and its coloration, which HP calls dragonfly blue. The 13-inch Dragonfly is definitely one of many lightest enterprise notebooks I’ve touched, and I used to be pleasantly shocked to see that HP nonetheless managed to incorporate one USB-A port and an HDMI port on the convertible’s slim body. These ports are accompanied by two Thunderbolt three ports, a headphone jack, and a safety lock slot.

The Dragonfly’s fashionable design would make it look like a very good competitor for machines like Dell’s XPS 13 and even the now-discontinued MacBook, however it’s a part of the Elitebook household, so it has quite a lot of options that pro- and business-users would require customary. The machine has a chassis manufactured from magnesium alloy and ocean-bound plastic materials and is MIL-STD 810G licensed, so it should stand up to drops and shocks higher than most of its client counterparts. Along with a shutter-able webcam, the Dragonfly could be outfitted with an IR digicam, and it comes with a fingerprint reader customary for Home windows Hiya. The Dragonfly will even help vPro Intel CPUs, as much as 16GB of RAM, as much as 2TB of storage, Wi-Fi 6, and optionally available 4×4 LTE connectivity.

Each common and enterprise customers will respect the Dragonfly’s long-promised battery life. The pocket book will are available in two battery configurations: one helps as much as 16.5 hours of battery life whereas the opposite has been enhanced to last as long as 24 hours on a single cost. Which you get must do partially with which show panel you select: the Dragonfly will help an FHD, 400-nit panel; a 4K, HDR400, 550-nit panel; and an FHD, 1,000-nit panel with HP’s Certain View privateness filter. Naturally, in order for you the perfect battery life attainable, you will need to keep on with the plain-ol’ FHD show.

HP representatives mentioned the corporate is concentrating on CEOs and different enterprise professionals with the Elitebook Dragonfly, and it is simple to see how these customers would love this convertible if it lives as much as all of its guarantees. I solely bought to spend a couple of minutes with the Dragonfly, and in that point, it impressed me with its lightness, engaging but refined design (the blue is a pleasant different to the blacks and silvers that dominate the PC house), and spectacular screen-to-body ratio. Since it’s a convertible, the Dragonfly additionally helps inking as effectively, however you will must pay further for HP’s energetic pen (as you do generally).

I am to see how well-liked the Dragonfly turns into and if HP will deliver any of this new design language to the remainder of the Elitebook portfolio. At present, the Elitebooks are usually not badly designed in any method, however they appear to be bricks in comparison with the Dragonfly’s thin-and-light chassis. Nonetheless, I might suppose enterprise clients would solely prioritize thinness and lightness to a sure level—the purpose at which these issues begin to hinder efficiency and battery life. We’ll have to check the Elitebook Dragonfly utterly to see simply how effectively it holds as much as HP’s guarantees and its competitors.

Together with the Elitebook Dragonfly, HP introduced the S430C Curved Extremely-Vast monitor, a behemoth of a show that may join to 2 PCs without delay so you should utilize them concurrently by sharing house on one display screen. Utilizing USB energy, you possibly can even switch recordsdata from one gadget to a different when each are related to the S430C monitor.

The brand new HP Elitebook Dragonfly shall be out there beginning at $1,599 on October 25.

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