That's a strange place for that key, but since at least 9 times out of 10 I hit that key accidentally in its typical location, I don't mind having to hunt for it on the rare occasion that I want the cursor to gobble up the text in front of it. The oddest layout adjustment here is that the insert key gets relegated to the F10 key. There's also a fingerprint reader built into a key above the right corner of the touchpad (basically taking the place of the right control key) that you can use to log into Windows (or you can use the webcam and its IR sensors for facial recognition). So the power button is fairly fumble-proof. The power button is stiffer than the rest of the keys, and a quick press like you might make while typing isn't registered by the laptop anyway. In case you're worried about the power button placement, I never accidentally put the laptop to sleep while typing. And one key over from that is a dedicated power button, just to the left of the delete key in the right corner. The F12 key is customizable, while the key to the right activates a physical shutter for the webcam. The company has obviously put some thought into that top row, though. The latter isn't a huge deal, but there is obviously more space on the keyboard deck for taller keys, which puts a slight ding in the whole ultra-premium, no compromises vibe. And the function row up top is still tiny. The up/down arrow keys are half-height and squished between the left/right keys. The keys are flat, but well-spaced and big enough not to hinder typing - for the most part. But both the X1 Carbon and XPS 13 Plus did better here, getting close to or above 1,500 MBps.Īs far as two-pound ultraportables go, the keyboard on HP's Elite Dragonfly G3 is very good. That's reasonably speedy for an office productivity laptop, and easily better than the ThinkPad Z13's 930.38 MBps on the same test. HP's ultraportable transferred our 25GB of test files at a rate of 1,157.23 MBps. This time it was the AMD-powered ThinkPad Z13 that finished first, in just 7 minutes and 9 seconds. That was more than a half minute behind the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon (12:33) and well behind everything else. On our Handbrake test, in which we task laptops to transcode a 4K video to 1080p, the Dragonfly took 13 minutes and 9 seconds. That's pretty close to the competition on the single core test, but the Dell XPS 13 and its P-series CPU did noticeably better, with a score of 1,797, and everything else in our comparison group did better than the HP on the multi-core test, with the Dell again coming in first with a score of 10,621. On Geekbench 5, an overall performance test with an emphasis on the CPU, the Dragonfly posted a single-core score of 1,647 and a multi-core score of 6,501. But there are two fans and a heatpipe in the laptop keeping thermals in check. In all but the most hushed environments, you'll likely forget it has fans at all. We'll see shortly how that lands when it comes to performance, but I will say that the HP Elite Dragonfly G3 is extremely quiet. The U-series CPU is an interesting choice when competitors like the Dell XPS 13 Plus and Lenovo's Yoga 9i Gen 7 are opting for higher-power Intel P series CPUs. Our review configuration of the HP Elite Dragonfly G3 came equipped with an Intel Core i7-1265U CPU, 16GB of DDR5 RAM and a 512GB SSD. Productivity Performance on the HP Elite Dragonfly G3
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