Correction: The description of the Sure View display is based on how the old technology works. How the current privacy filter works is HP proprietary information that they don't even share internally outside of the Sure View team. -AC

Titled: Almost perfect “The screen on this is absolute trash”

The specs on-screen says "MT/s" but Alex says "MHz" Dr. Cutress is fuming rn

"I'm pretty sure its made out of recycles material" -- Alex there i quoted him on it

“Grainier than oatmeal factory” lol

Alex right after talking about the fan: "This right here is a FANtastic laptop."

HP is doing a great job at making iPads and Macbooks look like the bang for your buck option.

Most motivated sponsor read ever

"Let's take this apart." That's why Alex is the best.

This laptop - Elite Dragonfly - goes up to *$3,500* maxed out, without any extra warranty. That's close to the 16" MacBook Pro's pricing. Starts at *$1,550* - with Intel Core i3, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD, and no OS. The 4-Core i7 model as reviewed in the video is actually *$2,438,* not $2,265.

I LOVE watching Alex talk about these awesome things. he's totally awsome

5:45 Hit the nail on the head! My laptop has a privacy screen... Thanks to TN viewing angles and low overall brightness.

LTT Reviewer: nearly bends machine in half, "oh wow the flex is really minimal" Me: *Laughs in Thinkpad* Every. Damn. Time.

"quad core intel procesor" and my excitation drop to 0

Thanks for all your work on this video, past videos and futures..

I like seeing the top torts of laptop capabilities, but solid budget laptops are very much appreciated.

If you don't need the privacy of the SureView display, the Dragonfly Gen 2 is available with several other display options.

2:56 they changed the Mhz to MTs. I like this. you ought to keep it right by the terms

It costs almost as much as my x13 flow, with the damn 3080 dock xD

That sponsor message almost had you sigh Alex

seems like a lot of negatives to say for a video titled "almost perfect"

I never thought I would see a day where a Macbook would destroy the entire ultra book market in performance, build quality, software support, screen, speakers, and price at $899.99.

7:00 oh god that portal 2 wallpaper. Love it

Alex one of my favorite reviewers, he should do more videos. Only honesty from him.

The display shows: 1.163 kg Engineer: it is 1.63 kg

Thanks for announcing the price early during the video

Great review. Thanks!

“For those of you who hate good system of measurement” - Well said bruh

Alex can't read the scale, it's 1.16 kgs.

for close to 2300 dollars I would not want to compromise. 4 cores? Really...?

Eagerly awaiting the day I see the upload of Alex having a look at the Framework Laptop

HP OLEDs in the Spectre lineup suck too because of the screen door effect. Pen-digitizer mesh can be seen with the naked eye and ruins the image.

Just $365 more than the laptop Linus reviewed yesterday

Are you going to review the new dell xps 15 9510?

That reflection of the controller on your shirt is pretty nice tho

I have a dragonfly elitebook and I love it but the small screen and glitchy trackpad sucks. It's amazing for taking notes tho

"for those of you that hate good systems of measurement" 😆😆

Another video of HP holding LTT employees at gunpoint

Thanks bro i got review now

Alex: I best hope so because it's $2265! speaking of the 16 inch MacBook...

This is literally more expensive than one year of my rent. And it is lighter than my keyboard.

It's not exactly new, but I do love HP's logo. I really can't see them changing it ever again. There's nowhere up to go. It's there!

Holy crap that webcam is amazing

That oh yeah goes pretty well with the music😏

I daily drive a dragonfly (with a 4k? screen), and it was more or less a hand-me-down from the previous guy that had the job. I work as an internal IT consultant in a large production facility, and I hardly do any ressource heavy work on it, (that's placed in the virtual server environment) and it's perfectly fine for that. The screen is definitely trash in regards of lights if you have to look at it for long. But then again, if you're doing long-hours writing on this one, you'd be immediately more annoyed by the tiny size, and if you're doing spreadsheet work or similar, you'd be more annoyed of the lack of a keypad. It fits my line of work where I sit most of the time at my desk, where this is connected by a single USB-c cable to my dock, and driving a couple of 1440p displays. Then, in a meeting or when someone in the factory needs help, I'll just snap it out of the dock and I'll have my handy little workstation with me. It hardly makes any noise as well, unless you reach the point of it going nuts. Like if you actually want it to process something demanding. Then it'll just go all bonkers and the battery will drain much faster. Then when I go back home, I might sit in bed and watch something, but I've more or less stopped doing that, as it's just annoying. If I want to use it as a tablet, the speakers are now on the back of the device, and audio is muffled, so I'm guessing tablet mode is for reading only. But then there's the light/screen issue In-bag detection? Is that something you have to enable? So far it haven't worked on mine. I have multiple times taken it out of the bag some hours later and it's just STEAMING. Or even the next day. I mean impressive that's it's not dead or the battery have hold up, but it haven't shut off itself. Audio is just.... I mean incredible. That being said, my workplace is owned by Altor, which is this huge investment group, which... also own HP, and Altor partners get HP products like... ~30% cheaper? than market prices I think. (Or at least we did when products were available.) which puts it in a much different product tier. Long story short, it's a neat little PC, and it does what I need in a laptop. It's made to do small tasks, like connecting to a bunch of servers from wherever I am, which allowing me to be really mobile if I need that in an entire day. The monitor is really the only drawback, but like I said, used in USB-C dock with an external monitor... really negates the issue.

The screen on this laptop is poor, but it's not meant to look amazing, it's meant to be private. They make a regular IPS screen, or even a 4K OLED option if you go for the G2 model. It's a speciality pick that makes it worse for other use cases.

Great review. I'll go for the X1 Carbon 2021.

My Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Gen 2 is basically the Same and Looks good as well

idk how it can even be close to the best ultrabook on the market when there's M1 MacBooks out there

3:37 I mean even if its only during the advertising, maybe do the cut to HIDE the putting away of the phone that Alex was clearly reading his script from.

Thanks for the sneak peek at android 12 beta 2, Alex

Nice review, but following up on the ending of the video, given your ... let's call it _sizeable_ production budgets, could you buy some lower tier, good value thin-and-light laptop reviews? Like, maybe a roundup (or two, let's say one budget and one mid-range)? That would be great.

The real question though, is the cost justified? Why don't you guys really ever answer that? There is no way in hell that the tech warrants 2200.

"Its a great laptop ... as long as you dont have to look at it."

Honestly that looks like my 2019 Envy x360, which I love so much

You should try the Thinkpad X1 Nano. My unit can be opened one handed and it's only 907 gram. I'm so glad I could save up to it 😊

I like how LMG has started using MT/s after Dr Cutress' video. When everyone in a discussion come from a genuine perspective, the outcome of the discussion will often include changed minds

HP frustrates me deeply. I've had great experiences with their high end hardware (the software, not so much) but not NEARLY great enough to justify their ludicrous pricing. All their actually-well-engineered products are the top-tier enterprise grade ones where an additional few hundred dollars per unit will in theory get lost in the shuffle of a Fortune 500 megacorp buying pallets of the things for upper management. The end result is extremely desirable laptops that are priced a good $500+ higher than comparable units. Makes me tear chunks of my hair out.

Hey what is the screen details for that one so we won't get that option of glare if you can go around it while customizing one?

I would love to see a comparison between this and the Lenovo X1 Yoga Gen 6.

I will love it if they used amd ryzen Not everyone can afford an xps anyway

"it's pretty speedy if you don't need to do a whole lot" well for a 2300$ people want to do a whole lot with their laptops

dayum even tho it has a nice camera the shake on that thing is huge

3:56 haha xD This is what I always think. Your imperial system is defined by the metric system.

Yesterday it was Linus, today Alex, seems like HP is paying a lot to LTT these days.

Title: Almost Perfect Laptop: Shit

You can turn off the privacy screen feature with the touch of a button. So...its a great screen! You should have mentioned that for sure.

If you like this laptop, I'm sure you would love the ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 6, do you plan to test it?

The music in the background sounds like something you could make from the club penguin DJ area, especially at the beginning.

4:00 imperial units just got burned man....

I love how we have the same issue with the XPS 15 with it overheating in bags on sleep so you have to manually hibernate it 😂

there is a travel restriction for batteries with >100Wh right? so will we see tablet style PCs with 100Wh + a keyboard dock with annother 100Wh? might get around that limit that way and deliver incredible battery life.

I paid that for a laptop, but it has an RTX 3070 :/ I don't understand why anyone would buy this HP

A macbook air would blow this out of the water though in almost every way.

are you ever going to review a good lenovo (nongaming) laptop?

So what is the option for people that want a similar machine with a better screen? My spouse needs the port selection, so the XPS is out.

Ok but for real though, the last video showcase about HP laptop on LTT is pure bollocks

Something we never expected to say: For much less than that price, you can buy a MacBook Pro M1, which is faster, and with a better screen.

I have it with 4k screen option. Is perfect.

Everything was fine for "Alex" until the 8k camera caught his finger print on film.

4:46 Did they pay you for the title then ? Because, what I hear you saying is it is a super expensive laptop. With an "Ok" processor. No GPU. Intel not AMD on board graphics. A Screen that looks like ASS. With a super smudgy finish? So, I am thinking they paid you for the title but not enough to give them a good review. But, I guess that is why it is such and expensive laptop. They had to pay for the Title.

If the screen is bad, this laptop has already failed. It doesn't worth even one third of its very high price.

Nice computer and everything... but why does it cost more than 2 grands? did all the money went to the recycled magnesium and the recycled box?

but which is better: MacBook Air speakers or the dragonfly elite's

😂😂😂 "Grainier than, I don't know, an oatmeal factory." OMG LUL

Damn, I never saw LTT in this light. They really want those HP dollas.

When are the new HP ENVY 15 laptops coming?

If HP gave us a 16:10, 15" version of this with a decent WQHD screen I would 100% buy it.

"Don't quote me on that" -Alex 2021 😈

“Apple laptops are so expensive” > Any other Windows laptops in the same category:

You should review the Legion 7

2:36 Looks like Dr. Cutress did pull through at the end

Over 2 grand, the screen is seemingly unusable and yet it’s rated highly. Talk about grading on a curve…

So shit unusable screen, shit specs for an insanely high price... Yup, sounds "almost perfect" to me.

can we have some more budget ended notebooks on the show plz alex?

should compare the speakers with the macbook pro 14

Best 13 Inch speaker; meanwhile MacBook Pro - Hold my beer

That background music is: - irritating, - loud and annoying.

I really wish the amazon link would actually take to me the actual page for the model being shown. amazon sucks at giving the right laptop/desktop model in their search page

It might be the editing, but in the Crabrave test, the HP sounded better than the Dell to me.