In lieu of a sliding privacy shutter, the webcam has a toggle key with an LED indicator on the top row of the keyboard. It captures 2,560-by-1,440-pixel 16:9 or epic 2,560-by-1,920 4:3 images along with videos that are super-sharp, well-lit, and colorful with no noise or static. Your Zoom or Microsoft Teams colleagues won't be paying attention to your voice, however, since they'll be admiring how you look, thanks to the Dragonfly's 5-megapixel webcam. HP Audio Control software provides speaker and mic noise reduction and an equalizer with music, movie, voice, and automatic presets. You won't hear a lot of bass, but it's easy to make out overlapping tracks. Two top- and two bottom-firing speakers with Bang & Olufsen branding produce loud and crisp sound, not harsh or tinny even at high volume. The face-recognition webcam and a fingerprint reader key (replacing the Control key to the right of the space bar) give you two ways to skip typing passwords with Windows Hello. Skinny side bezels and medium-thin top and bottom bezels surround the screen. You'll feel some wobble if you tap the display and flex if you grasp the screen corners or mash the keyboard deck, but nothing major. Though thin and light, the G4 has survived MIL-STD 810H tests for road hazards like shock, vibration, and extreme temperatures. Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth come standard on this laptop. Speaking of the Apple and Dell, the HP (like the Lenovo) puts them to shame in terms of connectivity: The Dragonfly joins the Air and XPS in having a USB4 Thunderbolt 4 port on each side, but it also has an HDMI monitor port on its left as well as a USB 3.2 Type-A port and audio jack on the right, so you don't need to stuff your briefcase with dongles or adapters. At 2.22 pounds, the Dragonfly undercuts not only the ThinkPad but the MacBook Air and Dell XPS 13 Plus-the latter two weighing 2.7 and roughly 2.8 pounds, respectively. (The keycaps are 50% recycled plastic.) It measures 0.65 by 11.7 by 8.7 inches (HWD), compared with 0.6 by 12.4 by 8.8 for the 14-inch Carbon and 0.44 by 12 by 8.5 for the 13.6-inch Apple MacBook Air M2. Other options include a version of the standard screen with HP's Sure View privacy filter, up to 32GB of RAM, and as much as 2TB of storage.Īvailable in Natural Silver or our test unit's handsome Slate Blue, the Dragonfly is crafted from 90% recycled magnesium. Plus, a Core i7 Dragonfly with a more vivid 3,000-by-2,000-pixel OLED panel (but no 5G) is tempting at $2,009. Those prices are roughly $300 above comparably equipped X1 Carbon models, but certainly in the business ballpark. (However, the early production units HP sent for review had standard displays-not touch screens.) Our test unit lists for $2,279 with a Core i7-1365U processor and Intel 5G mobile broadband. Likewise, non-customizable Dragonfly G4's aren't egregiously overpriced: The $1,769 starter combines a 13th Generation Intel Core i5 CPU, 16GB of memory, a 512GB NVMe solid-state drive, Windows 11 Pro, and a 13.5-inch IPS touch screen with 1,920-by-1,280-pixel resolution. To be fair, all business laptops cost more than consumer models, and most big businesses buy PCs with bulk or fleet discounts.
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