$4,000 is actually comical

I love how dBrand basically got a callout to their products even though they're not a sponsor of this episode 😂

I’m guessing it served him really well given how much coverage we got from Alex at CES.

that price is absolutely absurd.

It was all looking so good until he got to the price.

Based on all he's said I still would love to see Alex's thoughts on the Framework laptop

Would love a video on WHY these business laptops are always so expensive

There's so few laptops with windows that can rival macbooks in terms of build quality and design and when you finally find one, it costs some such a ridiculous amount of money that macbooks look like good value...

it is silly how expensive these small laptops are.

Can we talk about the display wobble for a second? I mean this display is reading his pulse better than my Garmin.

"turns out Linus is afraid of scorpions" That's a pretty reasonable phobia really, they're pretty angry boys. Source: used to own one.

You should review the newest HP Envy x360 since the top i7 16gb model is only $1200 and has a 66 Wh battery and a 2.8k display. That's value right there.

I've utterly refused to buy laptops I need dongles for, and I'm hoping that stupid trend will finally end. Great to see full size HDMI and Type A on this. EDIT: though that price for a 1080p screen is absolutely insane!

One thing I notice is that the screen lid shakes a lot - whereas the MacBooks have always had very solid screen stability

That display wiggles like crazy

the F2 key is set aside for HP's privacy filter (Sureview panel). I would imagine if you got a model with that on the display the keyboard would have the F2 key labelled as such.

Doesn't a software controlled privacy shutter on the webcam defeat the purpose of a privacy shutter?

This made me like my $1000 MacBook Air even more.

I love that under the glass webcam shutter, it's the slickest solution I've ever seen (that, or physically disconnecting the wires).

Nobody tell Alex spacebar functions as pause/play. It'll be funny.

That price is utterly insane

Hp are definitely getting it right business wise, company I work for have been changing over from surface laptop 3's to hp (similar to this laptop but a generation older, with I want to say better performance and like... Half the price if you were to buy it outright... ) the screen is worse than the surface but everything else is just better. If you're in the office they have 27" monitors with usbc power delivery and they will supply you with a monitor at home as well so I'm pretty sure most people are hardly using the laptop screen so it works well for us (also I assume it's a cheaper contract, the buy price was like 1-200 less than the updated surface). Though I do miss that alcantara finish.

Great review. Was looking for a Macbook Air equivalent running windows and this is as good as it gets for Windows. Definitely has to operate at 125% resolution to be usable (defaults to 150%), would be great to see the next version with a higher PPI.

I still want to see Anthony do a series of videos on running Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint, Arch) on superior hardware like this. Which machine is the best one to remove windows and install the Penguin?

I picked up the M1 MacBook Pro 14" brand new for $1,599. Even though I prefer Windows, I can't find any other laptop that is better value than that.

just use powertoys to remap the f2 key to pause/play

I would like Alex to make his own dedicated video explaining why "MacOS is garbage" - I feel like being sponsored to showcase a product, and being sent that product for free, should be subject to the same impartial journalism as anything else, and a brash statement like that needs some further explanation.

Alex, we in India have this laptop from Fujitsu called UH-X. It is apparently superlight at under 900gms for the Intel Core i5 models. If possible, do make a ShortCircuit video about that laptop if you can ever get your hands on one. Apparently an entirely assembled and made in Japan product.

I got the hp aero 13 with the r5 and 16gb of ram. I have adjusted to tdp to 8w and man this thing lasts so long

Was going to buy an hp laptop recently but there were no models I liked with a UK keyboard so went for the galaxy book pro 2 in 1 and loving it

F2 on HP Eltiobook/Probook is reserved for privacy screen, if you have it. You can also turn of the function that dims your screen when it´s in power saving mode

You could have used that programmable function key to quickly toggle between battery saver. Within a week it will just be a part of routine to press that key before closing the lid. Nice info, now I'll create a similar macro for any modern standby device I use.

These things are amazing for work, I use an elite book that is slightly larger and I'm trying to upgrade to one of these. A light weight laptop that fits into my purse is vital when I need to hustle across the building to make that last minute meeting. Guys might be able to get away with a hoodie, backpack, and sneakers; I wear a suit, a nice handbag, and heels.

Hi, Alex! I'm guessing LG didn't invite you to their booth to take a look at the new Gram line up?

I've got the 2020 Envy X360 with the 4000 series Ryzen, and for the most part I think I have all the benefits you got with this one here, but I also have a pen-enabled touchscreen that has a transflective layer so I can turn off the backlight in direct sunlight and still see everything while using almost no power. Also I think my games run better. Oh, and it was $800 last year on sale.

I'm pretty sure you can remove the heat shield over the SSD. I did it on my two HP laptops and it worked fine.

I noticed a lot of screen wobble in the video. Is it comaparble to other laptops or is it worse?

I wondered what the problem with modern standby is as I always have my surface on battery saving mode ^^

I have another hp laptop with a similarly 'crappy' display. It's only 6-bit color depth. However, it is great for doing business-y work on. Very gentle on the eyes, even in suboptimal lighting. Office, email, and browsing is great. CAD (solidworks) is fine. This is a premium business machine, and I think the screen is the right choice.

I really enjoy Alex quick laptop review

The most surprising part of this video is learning that people actually use the media keys on windows lol. I actually hate how many laptops don't allow you to set the function keys to default to just being normal function keys, I hate when I go start a debug session or use some shortcut I'm used to and the laptop suddenly starts playing some random media or opens the browser.

With how long Force Touch has been around (since 2016) in Apple products, any touchpads that are not haptic are a no-go for me, let alone "phenomenal". Once you've experienced the ability to click with consistent feedback anywhere on the touchpad, there's no going back.

Someone tell Alex to stop using Valheim to benchmark. Nobody plays that game anymore.

to believe battery time, i'd like to see what the CPU wattage is. Also, when connected to AC, does the laptop easily thottle, i.e. does the PL1 value change. For examples, on my dell XPS 13 9310, the PL1 level is 28W. However, if I dock it and thus do not open the lid, the PL1 value can easily come down to 14W. Fans have to be turned up to max to get a contanct PL1 value of 28W.

$3789 for a glorified netbook with a 3:2 screen?! I'd geniunely love to know why you couldn't use a MacBook Air for CES? If it's simply displaying scripts as you said, it would be fine with that and the battery is phenomenal. I use a Mac for work, and Windows at home. Both OS have their pros and cons, but reading from the screen isn't a con from either.

I have an XPS13 9370 dev, and everytime I hear someone complain about the new XPS I check if it's an issue on my laptop and it seems like it never is (except the USB A thing, But I'm wiling to give them a pass on that). Dell is apperently just regressing with the XPS line.

I really don’t know what I’m missing. Except for Excel, I generally feel more productive and it’s more pleasant living in the macOS environment. Windows and macOS are both fairly mediocre operating systems at the end of the day…

1:15 ok, that's sick!! I don't even have a laptop but I want this sticker

starting at almost $3k USD... what the literal fack? At that price point, it BETTER be among the best, jeeze. And that also means you had ZERO business comparing it to the surface pro laptop 5, which starts nearly $2k cheaper...

MacOS is pretty nice once you sort out the preferences and install a few utilities. Windows has a lot of janky stuff that’s been left in the OS for the sake of compatibility e.g. multiple layers of settings menus and device management interfaces. If you don’t need specific windows-only apps then MacBooks make a lot of sense for work, especially now that Apple put good processors in their entry models and Windows alternatives have similar pricing. It used to be a totally different market dynamic.

I have a work HP laptop with the same F11 Airplane Mode shortcut and it happens to me ALL THE TIME. Glad to know I'm not alone.

Holy resolution batman. That webcam is amazing. Good job HP. Dang

That much screen wobble is unforgivable in any laptop more than $600

I've literally never, ever in my entire life used a pause/play button on a laptop. Then again, never used airplane mode on a laptop either.

I saw the non-elite dragonfly G4 advertised on their website with 13th gen. Is this the same line of laptops?

What about the 14" Dell Precision 5470? You reviewed that a few months ago. My boss is getting me one for work. Would that have been a good candidate for replacing your 15" XPS?

I love how some of these computers make Apple’s tech look cheap in comparison and Apple is pricy AF. And with my personal experience with HP, I wouldn’t give them another penny no matter how “solid”-which is a very generous term-their tech is. Anytime I’ve dealt with HP, I feel misery but that $2,7-something starting price for those specs ain’t worth it. But sense these laptops generally target enterprise customers who’s money isn’t an issue, I’m sure it would be at benefit. I just would’ve trust HP for anything unless you hate yourself

Sees the price... Jonothan Jostar: OOH MY GOD. IT: That's the budget for 3, close to 4 laptops.

i use a HP ZBook as a Work Device. I honestly think after owning a XPS a MacBook of several generations. The modern HP Keyboards in their notebooks are so good, that I minimally do almost no mistakes while using it. Though I am a German and use an ISO Layout QWERTZ which is a good standard for us which is not apparent for US keyboards because they are generally ANSI Layout and that just annoys me to the moon.

Love watching your reviews because they're so detailed and insightful. However, why do you guys use the dancing crab video in every sound test video xD

I think airplane mode key it's the most useless key that, for some reason, every laptop manufacturer decide to include. Seriously, why, I can't think of a single scenario when you need to turn on airplane mode so fucking fast that you need a key for it.

Wtf is that price tag???

Great video as always. Just to expand the comment section, I shall add, that me personally actually uses the "airplane mode" button on my HP envy multiple times a day during commuting. So that is a valid reason for me to keep buying HPs personally. The "play/pause" less often, because of smartphones. Subscribes and loves, *.

ULV dual core processor. Your Elite is a step below my entry level HP ZBook mobile workstation and you have to forgo quad core for light weight and a long battery life ultrabook. Pretty good for the price!

I will probably buy this in 8 years from now.

I’m not a Mac guy, but I’d rather buy a MBP for half the price.

Hey Alex, I have a question. What would the battery life be if you set the resolution of the 4k OLED version to 1080p? Also, do you guys consider using Dolby Atmos? I'm not sure about this, but I think Apple uses their software to equalize their speakers.

When is the backpack getting updated? the zipper pulls broke off and are sharp still!

"Hey look it's a windows laptop that's competetive with the macbook pro" - very interesting "It's twice the price" - ah. but of course.

Alex as usual reminding me that I have small hands (or his are huge). I've always found 13" is a good size for typing (unless they try to cram a numpad in there).

You can pause/play by tapping with four fingers if your laptop doesn't have a button for it

The underscreen camera is really good :O

Looks nice! Whished it had an AMD version of it.

Suggestion for future reviews: Add a webcam test that determines how well the setup handles people with darker complexions. I tried a recent Lenovo that worked great for my ghost-like visage but was essentially unusable for anybody with skin browner than a paper bag.

That's the best laptop webcam I've ever seen reviewed on this channel

I haven't had any windows modern standby issues causing my battery to get completely drained. I have a 16inch Acer laptop(bought in February 2019) with an i5-9300H quad core hyperthreaded CPU,4GB VRAM variant GTX 1650,8Gb Single Sodeem memory running at 2666Mhz, and 1TB WD NVME Storage as two 512GB drives in Raid 0. Laptop screen Full Hd 1080p with 60Hz refresh rate. I don't have windows sleep state control's on my laptop but rather I have something better at least for me. On my laptop, I have Power and sleep settings control instead that allows me to set a time limit after which my laptop screen and then the laptop itself will go to sleep independently/separately on their own and I can also set it for when it's on battery and when it's plugged into the power (as two separate settings) [(screen or laptop separately) and when on (battery or plugged-in power)] haven't had battery drop by more than 2% to 5% on the actual battery percentage itself in like 8hrs to 10hrs of the laptop being in sleep mode on battery power only. I'll say that if viewers of the show have problems with windows modern standby on their laptops and other windows devices and also have (Power and Sleep control settings on their windows devices then check them and set them up to their preference according to how much they can adjust the settings time amounts in the available minute's increments). Hope this help some people who are struggling with Window's modern standby and are having battery drainage on their devices.

This with a 2256x1504 screen resolution at 90hz would be my dream.

Wait, are you telling me there are people who DON'T use the spacebar or mouse for pause/play? 6:17

So I just bought a Zenbook 14X OLED UM5401, *with a Ryzen 5600H, 16GB LPDDR4X, 512 GB SSD, 550 nit 16:10 2.8K 90hz Pantone validated OLED , zero flex, very good keyboard, 100 W charger from the factory, USB C charging, yeah yeah, it doesn't have TB, only 2x USB 3.2 Gen2 Type C, and a 3.2 Gen2 Type A, Full HDMI, MicroSD, and a combo Jack as IO, and the battery is just 63Wh (but so far it never gave up on me, I actually like to use it from battery) FOR AROUND 860 EUROS (it was on sale the full price was around 1060 EUR)* AND I'M FURIUS THAT EVERYONE ACTS LIKE IT DOESN'T EXISTS.

Oh come on. What software doesn't let you use the space-bar as pause/play?

No, it is not exceptional if it has a trashy screen, chipset that can be described as "meh" and at the same time it costs around 4k. It is ridiculous price and not that great value for money.

Honestly over the past few years I've noticed that LMG has become less of what it used to be and more pointing out things that the specific narrator doesn't like, things that have seemingly no significance or opinions that are quite literally 1 percenters. These also keep changing narrator to narrator. You can't come to these group of channels expecting simple and unbiased information and instead you have to deal with keeping in mind something like "Oh it's Riley today he isn't as polished in the tech aspect of things, I better watch out"

The display low response rate… could low battery mode affect it?

I have the dragonfly elite at work - love that little laptop

those speakers are pretty damn impressive

One of the things about the Function keys missing a Play/Pause key should be mentioned. Seeing as this laptop is oriented at business/corporate use (like the Elitebook series), there is probably no need for media keys. No business laptop below 15,6" (ThinkPads, Elitebooks, Latitudes) have them to my knowledge (whereas ThinkPads at 15,6" usually have them above the numpad). HP doesn't have the F2 key assigned to any function key to my knowledge to allow for easy file renaming. Having used refurbished business laptops a lot, a clear F2 key is so beneficial to not have to press Fn + F2 every time I want to use the keybind to rename a file.

8:50 OMG. Okay, so i probably have an idea: under Power plans you can edit when battery saver starts. The only problem is the limit on CPU...

Amazing job by Dbrand. That scorpion is insane! 👌🏻😂

DBrand doesn't even sell skins for HP laptops, WTF?!

Huh?!?? Nearly 4k … for this…?

I thought the space bar was always for Pause/Play? I've never had those function keys either, and I use HP, MSI, Dell, and Lenovo laptops daily for various purposes.

What is that CPU in the back, is there a secondary screen build on it??

Please let Alex do a personal opinion video on macOS, would be great!

Starts at $2700 with an i5?!?! I thought maybe $1500. Max.

Why would you need a pause/play when you click with three fingers the trackpad and does the same thing?

Anemic! Awesome word. Going to use it this week.

What does Alex needs on a laptop for CES that the macbook can't do? If he got an M1/M2 Macbook Air the battery would last forever with just researching and writing scripts. It would also be cheaper. Seems like he's just not used to MacOS, so he calls it garbage haha

Did you just compare the weight of a 15" laptop vs. the 13.5" HP laptop?! 🤨

Looks good and I guess all of Your issues with the display are caused by that stupid privacy shield. When I was choosing a new ultrabook I did decide between one HP with the privacy shield or an Acer Spin 5, the Spin 5 (2020) had a "regular" display also with a 3:2 (2256x1504) aspect ratio so I did choose it over the HP. I still love this thing until today.

Alex, use configure the trackpad gestures on Windows to play/pause on 3 finger tap and volume up/down on 3 finger swipe. It’s way better than any dedicated fn key, imho