I used to be returning the HP Dragonfly Max I had in for testing final month when HP despatched me their new Firefly Workstation laptop computer. When I in contrast the costs as configured, they have been shut to one another. The Dragonfly Max was, as configured, $2,789, and the Firefly cell workstation was $2,687. That’s solely a $102 distinction.
So, given each are about the identical price, why would you get a Firefly over a Dragonfly or vice versa? Since the business does a fairly poor job serving to consumers discover the proper product, let’s discuss why much more individuals need the Dragonfly Max than the Firefly with Dreamcolor, however why those that need the Firefly won’t even trouble wanting anything.
A Workstation vs. A PC
Workstations go to a devoted and targeted viewers of animators, engineers, architects, and their associated administration. This targeted viewers is as a result of workstations need to run specialised software program and must be licensed to run that software program. Unfortunately, this tie to the apps that run on them provides to the price, lowers the general quantity, and results in configurations that the majority customers wouldn’t respect.
For occasion, Firefly has a T500 NVIDIA GPU licensed to work with a lot of the potential skilled purposes that might run on it. However, when constructing a sport, builders don’t goal GPUs of this class which implies that for leisure, this additional efficiency might not work as nicely with shopper apps like video games.
Additionally, with this configuration, you might be additionally paying additional for a Dreamcolor show, which guarantees unbelievable colour accuracy. However, until you might be an artist constructing to a spec, this stage of colour accuracy isn’t as engaging because the 1,000 nit privateness display screen Dragonfly Max had.
With the privateness display screen, and HP has one of the best one available in the market proper now, you’ll be able to stop individuals sitting subsequent to you on a aircraft from seeing your work, and, outdoors, the 1,000 nit display screen on the Dragonfly Max is much simpler to see.
This targeted functionality doesn’t imply the Firefly doesn’t outperform the Dragonfly; it does and by a powerful quantity with off-the-shelf benchmarks. For occasion, with PCMark 10, the Firefly acquired a rating of 4,565, whereas the Dragonfly Max scored 3,901; on 3Dmark, the Firefly acquired 1,728, whereas the Dragonfly acquired 1,258.
Likewise, with Geekbench (64 bit), the Firefly acquired a rating of 5,556 for single-core and 19,716 for multi-core, whereas the Dragonfly Max acquired a rating of 4,522 for single-core and 16,063 for multi-core.
On prime of the 1,000 nit HP Sureview show that makes for a greater outside and safer utilization mannequin, you additionally get a much better 5MP digicam (over the Firefly’s 720p digicam) and customary 5G WAN networking (you may as well get 5G on the Firefly, however that’ll price you much more).
While the Zbook Firefly does have a distant increase that may join you to an entire distant workstation, the Dragonfly Max is context-aware and is aware of when it’s in your lap, on a desk, or in your bag and units the facility accordingly.
The Dragonfly Max is essentially the most feature-rich pocket book that HP builds, whereas the Z Series Dragonfly is the lightest workstation they make. It is just like the distinction between a automotive you need to exhibit and one which the navy offers you to do your job. For those that want a workstation that’s as transportable as a light-weight laptop computer, the Firefly is arguably their most suitable option, however the Dragonfly Max can be the product that comes closest to our perfect for the remainder of us.
One of the variations, whereas the unique Dragonfly had a singular and wonderful blue/black colour, is that the Dragonfly Max is black and fewer distinctive (and I’d argue much less more likely to be stolen because of this). The Zbook Firefly has an enormous Z on the quilt…
