HP’s Elite Dragonfly G3 is already one of the best ultrabooks available, so the company has seemingly taken a “don’t fix what isn’t broken” approach with its latest Dragonfly G4 model. Although for some reason, HP saw fit to remove the “Elite” bit from the laptop’s name.
The Dragonfly G4 steps up to Intel’s 13th Gen processors and adds some neat new business-focused camera and software tricks. Otherwise, the design and hardware are functionally the same as the G3. That’s far from a bad thing, as the Dragonfly is one of the nicest ultraportables available. But our testing showed its performance often lagging behind the competition (though it likely trades some speed for extremely quiet fans). And battery life, while still quite good, couldn’t match the 14 hours we saw on the previous-gen G3 model.
