HP Elite Dragonfly i5 13in price in United States starts from $199.00. This 8th gen Intel Core i5 powered by Hybrid (2-in-1) laptop is an absolute workhorse and loved by many professional users and students in United States due to its 56 Wh battery with very decent battery life and 16 GB LPDDR3-SDRAM memory.
Let's have look at some of the Key Pros & Cons of this laptop model to compare if this is really worthy of $199.00
Design and Built quality
From top view, the laptop is 304.3 mm of width and 16.1 mm height and total thickness of 197.5 mm. being in those dimensions the laptop weights only 0.99 kg
Display
HP Elite Dragonfly i5 13in has a very nice and compact 13.3 inch display which makes it perfect for everyday business professional who are always on the run. Having a 13.3 inch Full HD display with 1920 x 1080 pixels is good for portability and affordability, but for the most part if you want to get the best out of this, you will have to use an external display.
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Performance
Processor :
With the powerful 1.6GHz 8th gen Intel Core i5 i5-8365U processor, this HP laptop is a power house for all the applications or games that are available in United States. Using HP utility software, you can boost the processor speed up to 4.1GHz.
Having 4 cores with cache memory would be ok for running 2 or 3 applications simultaneously.
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RAM :
16 GB memory is fairly enough for day to day activities. and for most of the apps. this should be more than enough to get done your business work. LPDDR3-SDRAM means that it requires less power consumption than DDR2. 2133 MHz is average clock speed for most of the RAMs. which means it can store and retrieve data much faster than other RAM types. when Graphics card built in memory is insufficient, system uses RAM for memory. Having a faster Clock speed will make syncing that data much faster.
This HP laptop has RAM slots on the board, so you can upgrade memory up to .
Graphics :
This Laptop doesn't have a dedicated Graphics card. it has on-board Intel UHD Graphics 620 graphihcs chip with which you can do usual light work. but for gaming or any heavy graphics oriented work. this laptop is not the best.
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Storage :
Primary disk of this laptop is a 256 GB SSD. This is also compatible with NVMe, PCI Express storage. It doesn't have a buit-in CD/DVD Rom so you will have to use an external device if you plan to use CDs or DVDs.
ports & Connectivity :
Laptop comes with Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) and Bluetooth version 5.0 connectivity. WI-FI 6 means you can transfer data around 10Gbps which is 3 X times faster than the older version which only could up to 3.5Gbps. Wi-Fi 6 also uses Target Wake Time (TWT), which allows devices to determine when they will normally wake up to begin sending and receiving data. This extends the battery usage of HP Elite Dragonfly i5 13in. This laptop doesn't have an Ethernet Port so you will have to use a converter if you need to connect using Ethernet.
It has 2 USB Type-A ports which is nice as most of the USB devices use this type of ports.
This HP laptop comes with 2 USB Type-C Ports which is perfect to be used for high speed data transfer devices. It doesn't have Thunderbolt supported ports. Thunderbolt 3 lets you transfer data at up to 40Gbps.
It has an HDMI port for video output so you can easily connect your monitor or a projector. Laptop is charged using USB Type-C port.
Camera :
This laptop doesn't have a built-in camera.
Battery :
56 Wh is decent battery capacity so you will be able to use the laptop 3 to 6 hours on battery power. HP Elite Dragonfly i5 13in has a Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) battery which weights around 220 g. This is light weighted. HP has done a greate job making it lighter to reduce overal weight of the laptop. Battery is charged with 65 W power adepter using USB Type-C port. It takes around to fully charge the battery.
Price Analysis
The best and lowest price for HP Elite Dragonfly i5 13in in United States is $199.00 from B&H Photo | Video, New York, NY , which is $3.00 (1%) less than the highest price listed here for HP Elite Dragonfly i5 13in, price from Newegg, City of Industry, CA which is at ($202.00) .. You can find HP Elite Dragonfly i5 13in for the above stated price range in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Austin, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Seattle, Denver, Washington, Washington, Boston, Nashville, Detroit, Las Vegas, Kansas City in United States
