MAY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 41PC Mark 8 tells us it’s all good for the majority
of work you’d do on a thin-and-light laptop
Our last pure performance test uses 3DMark to
measure the graphics capabilities of the Elite Dragonfly.
No surprise, it’s basically no better and no worse than
most laptops using Intel UHD or HD graphics. We’d
recommend that any gaming or graphics be kept to the
bare minimum. If your boss’s idea of ‘gaming’ means
solitaire or Flash-based games, you’ll be okay.
Perhaps the most important test for a laptop this
portable is battery life. To test that, we loop a 4K video
using Microsoft’s Movies & TV app. We set the display
at a relatively bright 250- to 260 nits, switch off Wi-Fi,
and connect a pair of earbuds for sound.
With its ‘1 watt panel’ and large battery, it’s no
surprise the Elite Dragonfly knocks it out of the park
in battery life. And yes, that’s about 18 hours of