MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 33floor – and maybe surviving – as HP said it passes nine
MIL-STD drop tests in drop, shock, and vibration.
What’s inside still matters, though, and like most
corporate premium laptops, the Elite Dragonfly has the
top-end, 8th-gen Intel Core i7-8665U. You can view the
full details of the Core i7-8665U on Intel’s ARK database
(fave.co/2SmcynK), but in performance you get about
200MHz higher clocks in Turbo Boost and 100MHz
higher base clocks on paper. Most important is actually
the support for Intel’s vPro feature, which enables easier
management of the laptop in a fleet environment,
where 200 or 2,000 have to be accounted for.
The Core i7-8665U also supports Intel’s TSX-NI
and Stable Platform features. Even though the latter
promises better performance for multi-threaded
apps, it’s supported on very few CPUs despite being
introduced four generations ago with the Haswell line.The 8th gen Core i7-
8665U can technically
hit higher clocks than
the more common Core
i7-8565U, but more
importantly has vPro
support switched on