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REVIEW
prudent to Draconian. As with all security procedures,
the levels of pain are up to the administrator.
Performance
The Elite Dragonfly’s performance reflects the priorities
of corporate laptops, which put security and reliability
over raw speed. You can see that odd dynamic
righthere:The8th-genCorei7-8665Uin theElite
Dragonflyhas a higher clock speed than the common
consumerCorei7-8565UCPU.Butonelookbelow
andyou won’t see it.
Maxon’s 3D rendering Cinebench R15 benchmark,
which measures a CPU’s multi-threaded performance,
shows the Elite Dragonfly under-performing against
laptops with slower CPUs.
Like most business-class laptops, the Elite
Dragonfly doesn’t set any performance records
