We usually consider HP’s Dragonfly laptops when it comes to premium enterprise notebooks, however at CES 2023, the corporate introduced a set of 14-inch Dragonfly laptops (one operating Home windows and AMD Ryzen, the opposite a Chromebook utilizing Intel). These, HP says, are designed for freelance sorts — on-the-go employees who want one thing that simply works, with out an IT division.
The Home windows model is the Dragonfly Professional, a 3.53-pound magnesium-aluminum laptop computer utilizing AMD’s Ryzen 7736U. (Maintaining in thoughts how AMD names issues, that is a Zen 3 processor). It goes as much as 32GB of LPDDR5-6400 RAM and both 512GB or 1TB of storage. HP mentioned it collaborated with AMD on its Platform Administration Framework (PMF) in a method that ramps the system up for efficiency once you want it, whereas attempting to cut back fan velocity and noise when you do not.
The touchscreen is a 14-inch, 1920 x 1200 Gorilla glass panel and HP is tossing in a 5 megapixel digicam with a privateness shutter. The laptop computer has a haptic trackpad (which I personally choose in lots of instances to clicky ones, however that is simply me), in addition to two USB 4 Kind-C ports at 40 Gbps and one USB 3.2 Kind-C port at 10GBps.
The Home windows model has 4 buttons alongside the facet: one to open HP Management Heart, one for digicam settings, one for twenty-four/7 buyer assist skilled on the machine (it is unclear how lengthy this lasts earlier than it goes subscription) and a button you possibly can customise. Personally, I believe a whole buyer assist button, which you are unlikely to wish more often than not, is a bit a lot. I might slightly have one other customizable hotkey.
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The Chromebook model is barely totally different. It’s utilizing a twelfth Gen Intel Core i5-1235U (extra barely older silicon), with 16GB of LPDDR5 and a 256GB SSD. Nevertheless it will get a nicer display, at 2560 x 1600 decision, which HP claims can get to 1,200 nits. It additionally has extra ports, with 4 Thunderbolt 4 ports. It will get an 8MP digicam.
The three.3-pound Chromebook would not have the 4 buttons to the facet, nevertheless it does have RGB, which is the primary time we have seen it on a Chromebook outdoors gaming. You’ll be able to’t management a lot – you may get the default four-zone or some strong colours. However I suppose it is at the least a touch of character.
The 2 programs do have just a few issues in frequent. Each have 4 audio system (two firing up, two firing down), and every is available in each black and white.
Each the Dragonfly Professional and Dragonfly Professional Chromebook are set to ship this spring, with pricing being introduced nearer to the discharge date.