The Surface Book 3 offers a healthy range of ports to connect up your devices. Microsoft Surface Book 3 vs HP Elite Dragonfly: connectivity That is far surpassed, however, by the four-cell, 56.2Wh battery in the Elite Dragonfly, which HP claims offers up to 24.5 hours’ battery life. Microsoft promises up to 15.5 hours of battery life for the 13.5-inch version and 17.5 hours for the 15-inch model of the Surface Book 3. Unlike the Surface, there’s no discrete GPU, graphics instead provided by the integrated Intel UHD Graphics 620. The HP Elite Dragonfly offers a quad-core Core Intel i7-8565U processor, 16GB memory and 512GB on all its models. Graphics come courtesy of a Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 card. RAM ranges from 8GB to 32GB LPDDR4x, and SSD storage from 256GB to 1TB. The base model of the Surface Book 3 comes with a quad-core Intel Core i5-1035G7 Processor, but you can pay more to get a more modern i7-1065G7 processor. Microsoft Surface Book 3 vs HP Elite Dragonfly: processor, storage and graphics And finally, there’s the option for 4G connectivity on the Dragonfly: you just need to add a SIM card. Thirdly, you get a stylus included in the box. Secondly, there’s a privacy shutter on the webcam.
Firsty, it comes with a fingerprint sensor. When it comes to audio, meanwhile, the Bang & Olufsen speakers in the Dragonfly are top quality, and superior to the Surface’s speakers, which are pretty average.īeyond these design fundamentals, there are a number of small, but important touches that make the Dragonfly more attractive than the Surface. Both these screens offer a standard 16:9 ratio.
With the Dragonfly, meanwhile, you can choose between two 13.3-inch display options: Full HD (1,920 x 1,080 pixels) with 400 nits of brightness, or 4K HDR with 550 nits of brightness. (Also note that both displays features a 3:2 aspect ratio, which is squarer than the more standard 16:9.)
To be specific, the Surface comes with a 13.5-inch, 3000 x 2000 pixels touchscreen with 400 nits of brightness, and there’s also the option of a 15-inch model. And what of the screens themselves? Both are very impressive, although the specs do vary depending on the model you go for.