HP ELITE DRAGONFLY G3

HP ELITE DRAGONFLY G3 Price in Pakistan

Design

The Dragonfly G3 directly succeeds last year’s Dragonfly Max (i.e., the Dragonfly G2) with new hardware from top to bottom. Other than the obvious CPU upgrade from 11th gen Tiger Lake-U to 12th gen Alder Lake-U, the G3 sports a new 3:2 form factor and 13.5-inch display to contrast to older 16:9 13.3-inch design. HP says all the changes collectively cater to a hybrid out-of-home and in-home workforce. The metal chassis remains strong and rigid around the base and keyboard center. The same can’t be said about the lid, however, as it twists and flexes as easily as the lids on the LG gram or Samsung Galaxy Book. Applying pressure down the center of the outer lid warps the surface more readily than the lid on a Spectre. The very low weight and lack of any Gorilla Glass reinforcement contribute to the weaker lid of the Dragonfly G3.

Processor

The HP ELITE DRAGONFLY G3 is equipped with the Intel Core i7-1255U is a high-end mobile CPU for thin and light laptops based on the Alder Lake architecture. It was announced in early 2022 and offers 2  performance cores (P-cores, Golden Cove architecture) and 8 efficient cores (E-cores, Gracemont architecture). The P-cores support Hyper-Threading leading to 12 supported threads when combined with the E-cores. The clock rate ranges from 1.7 to 4.7 GHz on the performance cluster and 1.2 to 3.5 GHz on the efficient cluster. The performance of the E-cores should be similar to old Skylake cores (compare to the Core i7-6700HQ). All cores can use up to 12 MB L3 cache. Compared to the i7-1265U (fastest U-series CPU at launch), the 1255 offers 100 MHz lower clocked CPU cores and only “Essentials” vPro management features. Compared to the P-series (28W) or H-series (45W), the 15W TDP may limit the sustained performance.

Display

Brightness distribution could be better. The bottom left corner of our screen is only 314 nits whereas the top right is 389 nits for a corner-to-corner brightness decrease of 20 percent. Though the difference is not distracting during regular use, we expected better from a high-end laptop such as this.