58 PCWorld MARCH 2020REVIEWS HP ELITE DRAGONFLY
INCREDIBLY LIGHT WEIGHT,
INSANE BATTERY LIFE
The Elite Dragonfly’s main claim to fame is its
weight, which approaches 2.2 pounds when
equipped with the base 38-watt-hour battery.
The trade-off is that
paltry battery
capacity. HP also
offers a 55-watt-hour
battery for additional
cost. Personally, we’d
opt for the larger
battery (supplied in
our review unit),
which increases the
weight by just 3
ounces to 2.5
pounds.
Because your
boss is likely to be
butter-fingered, theElite Dragonfly also has a better chance of
hitting the floor—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 features 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 (go.pcworld.com/akdb), 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’sHP’s Elite Dragonfly
is a lightweight
convertible laptop.