42 TECH ADVISOR • MAY 2020
REVIEW
video playback. Remember: video playback is mostly
on cruise control today. Fire up Office and sit in a
spreadsheet all day scrolling around, and you’ll likely
whack off a third of the run time. Fire up Chrome and fill
it with 25 tabs, all looping and downloading continual
Flash-based ads, and you can probably expect to cut
the run time in half, which is still about nine hours. Fire
up any application that grinds on the CPU or GPU for
the whole time, and you probably shouldn’t expect
more than two to three hours at best.
Verdict
We’ll admit, we’re impressed by the HP Elite Dragonfly.
It transcends our expectations for corporate laptops.
Instead of boring, black, and basic, it is beautiful,
Graphics performance is in line with that of all other UHD
laptops, and fine for your boss to play Flash-based games
