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| Specs at a look: HP Dragonfly Folio G3 | |||
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| Worst | Best | As reviewed | |
| Screen | 13.5-inch 1920×1280 IPS touchscreen | 13.5-inch 1920× 1280 IPS touchscreen with HP Sure View Reflect Privacy | 13.5-inch 1920×1280 IPS touchscreen |
| OS | Windows 11 Home | Windows 11 Pro | |
| CPU | Intel Core i7-1255U vPro | Intel Core i7-1265U vPro | |
| RAM | 16GB LPDDR5-6400 | 32GB LPDDR5-6400 | 16GB LPDDR5-6400 |
| Storage | 512GB NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD | 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD | 512GB NVMe PCIe 4.0 x4 SSD |
| Networking | Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2 | Wi-Fi 6E, Bluetooth 5.2, 5G | |
| Ports | 2x Thunderbolt 4, 1x 3.5 mm | 2x Thunderbolt 4, 1x 3.5 mm jack, 1x Nano SIM card reader | |
| Size | 11.67×9.22× 0.7 inches (296.42×234.19×17.78 mm) |
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| Weight | Starts at 3.09 lbs (1.4 kg) | ||
| Battery | 53 Wh | ||
| Warranty | 1 12 months | ||
| Price (MSRP) | $2,379 | $4,715 | $2,749 |
| Other | Stylus with 3x additional ideas included | ||
Dressed to impress, HP’s Dragonfly Folio G3 is a singular machine with a excessive price ticket to match (it begins at $2,379 as of press time). Like different Dragonfly laptops, together with the HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook and Elite Dragonfly G3, the Folio G3 is essentially geared toward enterprise customers. But this is not the kind of 2-in-1 that IT managers shall be distributing company-wide.
Instead, the Folio G3 will land within the palms of executives and big-spending energy customers prepared to splurge for a definite feel and appear—and far more flexibility than nearly each different convertible PC can boast. With its current-gen CPU, this machine is an intriguing different to Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio, which has a display with the same pull-forward design that lets it prop onto the deck or lay on prime of the keyboard to work like a pill.
HP’s Folio G3 is finely crafted, it stays cool and quiet, and it begs to be proven off. But when you prioritize efficiency over issues like stylus enter and an adaptable display, there are extra appropriate ultralight laptops.
Faux leather-based, true flexibility
Few issues really feel extra unnatural than by chance urgent a convertible laptop computer’s keys when its display is bent backward in pill mode. That’s fairly laborious to keep away from, although, since most 2-in-1s depend on a 360-degree hinge that makes the lid’s underside and the deck’s underside meet. So as tedious because it typically feels to flip the Folio G3’s lid round, the pc’s pull-forward design makes utilizing the machine rather more nice.
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It makes for a wacky profile, however the design has its advantages.
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The PC’s extra conventional look.
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Firmly urgent the open laptop computer’s lid backward forces the show off the sturdy magnets connecting it to the deck. You can then simply and reliably pull the display ahead and prop it onto the deck, masking the keyboard however leaving the exquisitely easy and deep touchpad obtainable. Or you possibly can pull the display down extra till its underside touches the highest of the keyboard, making a pill expertise.
PCs just like the Surface Laptop Studio and Acer’s ConceptD Ezel 7 and 3 have labored to make this way issue a factor. HP’s tackle the design has traditionally include an opulent contact: leather-like supplies.
HP first tried wooing us with leather-lidded laptops when it revealed the Spectre Folio in 2018, however it switched to fake leather-based with its follow-ups, 2021’s Elite Folio and the Folio G3. HP is seemingly looking for a house for its leather-like, ultraflexible, convertible design. But how laborious ought to HP actually be clinging to this leather-turned-leatherette-dream?