- Today I'm going to be taking a look
at the HP Dragonfly Pro.
Two things to note: first of all, thank you very much
to HP for sponsoring this video,
second of all, calm Austin has returned.
Yes, my friends, the myth is true, the yelling has gone.
Let's just sit down.
Sit down.
We're gonna be calmly taking a look at this,
a very high quality laptop
from our friends over at Hewlett Packard.
Can you say the word, "laptop"?
- Can you say.
- [Austin] Laptop?
- Fantástico!
- I have not physically touched this laptop yet.
I've done some research,
I know some of the basic core specs,
but it's a little bit more exciting to me
to actually do an unboxing
and to show you the first impressions
and to kind of just experience the device
for the first time with you.
It's the better way of doing these
than I think consolidating it down
to three minutes of bullet points and specs and whatnot.
But instead it's like,
"Oh hey, how is this thing to actually use,
what are the advantages, and who is this really for?"
Inside, we have the Dragonfly Pro.
First and foremost, this is powered
by the latest generation of AMD processors,
which is actually quite unique,
but this is, as far as I'm aware,
a device which has been pretty much designed
from the ground up to be co engineered with AMD
to take advantage of their latest tech.
Which for someone who takes a look at a lot of laptops,
that are typically either powered by Intel
or of course things like MacBooks,
I'm really curious to see
how this is actually going to stack up.
The lid is actually quite thick,
which I'm not entirely sure what that's for.
Feels solid, but okay.
I will give them props that as a 14 inch laptop,
I'm very happy to see upward firing speakers.
I just think that if you want a nice audio experience
on your laptop, having speakers
that fire directly towards you
instead of something that fires down
or through the back or whatever, that's a win.
I also like this finish.
It's very sort of matte and the port...
Wow, what an interesting port selection.
There's three USB-Cs.
No headphone jack.
Huh.
Boy with a laptop this thick, would've been nice
if they would've fit a headphone jack, huh?
Firing up the Dragonfly,
this device is targeted at freelancers,
it's targeted people who want to get work done,
but don't necessarily need some hugely powerful device.
They also sell a Chromebook version of this device.
Although I will say that the Chromebook version
is powered by an Intel processor, it's a little bit cheaper.
This Windows powered with the AMD
is a little bit more, you know, loaded with everything.
Wow, okay.
So that's the first thing I'm noticing.
That touchpad surface feels terrific.
It's super smooth.
Wait, is it touchscreen?
Touchscreen.
Now, I know that when designing this laptop,
battery life was one of their main focuses.
According to HP,
this is the best battery life they've ever offered
on one of their 14 inch consumer laptops.
Now, I think part of the reason they're able to do that,
because I haven't opened it up yet,
but I'm assuming that there's quite a large battery
inside here.
Now it is touchscreen, of course,
but what you're assuming
is that it's slightly lower resolution here
is definitely gonna pay dividends
when it comes to battery life.
And let's be honest, at 14 inches,
1200p is completely fine,
it is still a 16 by 10 aspect ratio.
So as always, let's pop open task manager
and see exactly what we've got.
So this is outfitted with the Ryzen 7 7736U,
which is a Zen 4 based CPU with eight cores.
We also have a pretty monstrous 32 gigs of ram
as well as a one terabyte SSD,
and this is outfitted with Radeon RDNA3 graphics.
This is meant as a device that can get productivity done.
If this is your device to run your business,
this is what they're really designing it for.
It's not meant for crushing noobs,
it's designed for crushing spreadsheets, emails,
little bit of light video editing.
Let's be real, that's what most of us are doing.
If you really want a editing laptop or a gaming laptop,
there are clearly better choices out there.
Also, I still cannot say enough nice things
about this trackpad.
Just the surface alone is so, so nice.
At this kind of price point,
you should accept very, very few compromises.
So why don't we actually take a look around the device?
One interesting thing they've done,
it actually has slightly rounded edges.
So if you look all the way in the corner here,
they just knocked off just a few pixels on the side.
It's definitely becoming a little bit more of a trend,
especially with Windows 11,
to have like rounded corners on things.
It's more of a modern UI.
So let's take a look,
see some of the custom features that HP have built in here.
Oh my goodness, there's no bloatware on this laptop.
I'm shocked and surprised.
I guess, I mean, when you're getting a little bit more
on the premium price point, that's nice to see,
but I'm used to a lot of trials for things I don't want,
some specific security software that I always uninstall.
Okay, cool.
Wow, that's actually really nice.
So there are actually a lot of premium features
that HP have included.
So you actually can see some of this on the keyboard.
So you can see that for the most part,
this is a full size keyboard,
but you have some custom keys over here.
So this little triple dot I can set here
to do multiple items.
So if I wanted to,
I could set that to copy-paste macro perhaps.
What's something I need to do on a regular basis
that I want a keyboard shortcut for?
I can use this to automatically open up Bing
and to copy-paste the first chunk of my prompt in there.
There we go.
All right, that's neat.
That's neat.
One of the more unique features of the Dragonfly
is a dedicated support button on the keyboard.
Tap and hold it for a second and you'll get access
to 24/7 support via text or via call.
This is actually really nice,
because especially if you are a one person show
and you're doing everything from your laptop
and if something goes wrong,
having the ability to instantly get that is a huge win.
So it's included for a year with a laptop,
although you can pay an additional subscription
and you'll also get ongoing support
if you do have, say, hardware issues
or you literally just need to talk to somebody.
Not just you just need to talk to somebody,
we all need to talk to somebody at some point,
I'm sure they're very friendly, but they'd probably prefer
if you talk to 'em about like laptop related things,
not just like, I don't know...
- [Ken] It's not a therapist button.
(Austin laughs)
- Let's watch a video.
Oh, oh my god.
Oh my god.
I just typed the word "YouTube" into YouTube search.
(alarms blare) (gun shots fire)
I have bought the cheapest gaming gear
Dude, these speakers actually kind of slap.
that I could find available at Amazon
as well as with Prime shipping.
These Bang & Olufsen speakers sound terrific.
And also I will say the screen is really nice as well.
If you're using this for consumption,
whether it's for video or audio or whatever, it's nice.
I will say it would also be nice
if they had found a way to fit a headphone jack
in the laptop.
But the next best thing is have some really nice speakers.
And let me actually do a little typing test on the keyboard.
Woo!
I didn't yell, that was just an excitement,
an exclamation of glory.
104, 100% accuracy.
So yes, I will say the keyboard is nice.
It's a very sort of clicky kind of feel,
so it's not like a really deep sort of press,
but I think for someone
who's gonna be spending a lot of hours typing,
especially when you compare it with the touchpad,
which it feels incredibly smooth,
this is a nice place to spend time.
I also like the material.
If you take a close look, you'll actually see
like the little speckles in the actual material,
it's on the trackpad as well,
and it gives it that sort of like kind of feel
that it's not gonna get like really scuffed and scratched.
Like it feels durable, which I really like.
Let's do a quick little check of the webcam.
It is Windows Hello powered.
Start HP enhanced camera.
Hell yeah I want an enhanced camera.
Oh look, I'm in a cafe, wow.
How about blur?
Yeah.
It's pretty neat.
One thing I'll give HP props for,
it is quite easy to open up the Dragonfly.
There's a total of, I count six screws on the backside.
I'm not entirely sure
if it's gonna be anything user upgradable,
but I would just like to take a look
to see what's actually inside these devices.
Now look at that.
Wait, is this magnetic?
Hold on a second.
It's magnetic.
Look.
Yo!
I will say there's probably not a lot
that you can actually do underneath here.
So we do have the battery, which is 65 watt hours,
we also do have dual cooling fans, and that's about it.
I don't think there's anything replaceable.
Look at the size of those drivers.
No wonder it's so loud.
That's actually really impressive.
This laptop smells delicious.
So cool.
Normally with pretty much any device that I try,
I run some extensive benchmarks,
but it feels like, while yes,
this does quite well in Cinebench, 3DMark,
and all the usual suspects,
I'm gonna actually try to do something inside of Excel.
I'm going to multiply every number I can
by every other number I can think of
times as many as I can think of
and I'm just gonna just try to break Excel.
All right, so we're gonna just extend it out to,
I don't know, how about as far as it'll go.
How about that many numbers?
Can you count?
Oh wow, okay.
Oh, nope, that was 20,000 numbers.
That was fast.
Okay, let's put a Ryzen CPU to work.
Let's calculate a...
Oh.
It just calculated 97,000 numbers
before I could even finish a sentence.
With that AMD Ryzen 7 processor,
you know that you get decent graphics,
32 gigs of ram, and an eight core CPU,
but on top of that, you also have the flexibility of USB4,
something that used to be a little bit
of a downside on AMD processors,
but now you've got the ability
to have that full 40 gigabit in and out,
you can connect it to monitors, hubs,
docks, all that kind of fun stuff.
It might not be the world's most exciting looking hardware,
but what it is designed to do
is to be relatively eco-friendly,
but importantly, actually durable, right?
This thing is meant to last for a extended period of time
with some great support and the ability to easily open it up
and swap the battery out is a big win.
So if you're interested in learning anything else
about this HP Dragonfly Pro,
definitely be sure to go check it out
at the link in the description.
And huge thank you to HP for sponsoring this video.
Look, if you buy the Dragonfly Pro,
you can program that button
to open up the Austin Evans channel,
so you're always kept up to date
with the latest and greatest.
I'm not saying you should do that,
'cause there's probably better uses of that button,
but you know what?
I mean, I wouldn't blame you for it.
Youtube.com/AustinEvans.