Subversion or muddy water MateBookX evaluation

Notebook market has long been entered into a mature stage of development, mature means that step by step, the product highly homogeneous. In such a big environment, the color of the notebook is rare. Huawei in early 2016 launched a two-in-one product MateBook, announced to enter the notebook market. After a lapse of one year, Huawei once again launched force, launched a traditional notebook form HUAWEI MateBook X. For the already competitive anxious notebook market, Huawei move in the end is subversive or muddy muddy water, the answer lies in the HUAWEI MateBook X inside.

Huawei for the current notebook market has a clear and clear judgments, and these judgments are reflected in the HUAWEI MateBook X body. Huawei will HUAWEI MateBook X positioning smart business notebook, which with their own positioning of a number of product line fit, and this is also very good in the field of Huawei. If we plan to manufacturers for the positioning of products, simply from the product point of view, the beginning of the notebook market, Huawei and traditional manufacturers do have the same vision, which makes HUAWEI MateBook X body of the five highlights more prominent.

Highlights 1: The world’s smallest 13-inch notebook

Is smaller than an A4 paper, which is HUAWEI MateBook X in the industrial design to hand over the answer sheet. Thanks to Huawei’s strong industrial design capabilities, HUAWEI MateBook X not only the fuselage of the thickest only 12.5mm, weighs only 1.05kg, the success of the notebook thin and light to the level of the tablet, but also in the internal hardware has done a high degree Custom, successful 13-inch notebook to reduce the size of smaller than A4 paper. As the world’s smallest 13-inch notebook, HUAWEI MateBook X really makes people see Huawei’s strong industrial design capabilities.

From the side to see very thin

Not only that, HUAWEI MateBook X is also a high standard of work, the author once suspected Huawei is in accordance with the work of the phone to request the level of HUAWEI MateBook X. HUAWEI MateBook X uses metal integrated body design, side curve arc and the use of CNC drilling process, the whole simple fashion and full of texture. From the details point of view, HUAWEI MateBook X at the bottom of a whole piece of metal plate, surrounded by the border part of the connection almost to achieve a strict fit, so that the tolerance control in the industry first-class level.

HUAWEI MateBook X has three colors

Color matching, HUAWEI MateBook X has streamer gold, dark gray and rose gold three colors, for high-end business crowd, the optional space is relatively large. Excellent design, work and three-color match, so HUAWEI MateBook X in the main business of the light of the very dazzling, and lightweight design is very easy to go out to use.

Price, the HUAWEI MateBook X series price of 6988 yuan, the highest 9988 yuan, and all the standard value of 399 yuan MateDock dock, or more conscientious. Which i5 / 4GB / 256GB price of 6988 yuan, i5 / 8GB / 256GB price of 7988 yuan, i5 / 8GB / 512GB price of 8988 yuan, i7 / 8GB / 512GB price of 9988 yuan.

Highlights 2: the world’s highest screen 13-inch notebook

4.4mm, only one third of the width of the little thumb, but it is HUAWEI MateBook X screen frame width, this value is almost the highest level of the industry. 4.4mm micro-border so that HUAWEI MateBook X screen ratio reached a staggering 88%, the highest share of the current global screen. The advantage of high-screen share is the broader view, so that users can focus on the screen content, whether it is work or audio and video entertainment, visual experience are very good.

4.4mm micro-border, 88% screen ratio

In addition to 4.4mm micro-border, HUAWEI MateBook X screen quality is also very good. First of all, this 13-inch screen ratio is more unique 3: 2, compared to the traditional proportion of the screen display content of 22%, very suitable for office use; Secondly, this is a 2K level screen, physical resolution up to 2160 × 1440; In addition, this screen also supports eye protection mode, which can effectively filter part of the blue light, ease visual fatigue, the surface of Corning gorilla glass wear scratch, can play a good protective effect.

In order to further understand the screen, I use a professional color calibrator Spyder conducted a test. Through the software Spyder5 test can be seen that the screen color gamut reached 99% of the sRGB, 69% of the NTSC, the brightness of 402nits. Ignore the test error, you can see the screen color gamut reached 100% of the sRGB, and the brightness is also very high, almost 100% concluded that this screen is high-end goods.

Spyder5 test data

The actual sense of view, 4.4mm micro-border with a ratio of 3: 2 screen with, to provide a wide visual experience; 2K-level resolution and 100% sRGB wide gamut to show the details of the more clear, more vivid content; Eye model and Corning gorilla glass on the user and the product itself has a good protective effect. HUAWEI MateBook X screen performance is really impressive.

Highlights 3: The world’s first power key integrated fingerprint recognition Windows notebook

Power key integrated fingerprint recognition design, more common in the phone. Huawei as one of the overlord of the mobile phone industry, this design will be introduced into the notebook is expected, but it is the first time Windows notebook. This allows the HUAWEI MateBook X to “take it away and turn it on.”

Power key integrated fingerprint recognition

In the embodiment of the convenience of this design, the user needs to pre-enter the fingerprint, the fingerprint will be stored separately in the security chip, then you can achieve a key to start + unlock. Users only need to press the power button to boot, do not need to enter a password or scan fingerprint, the system automatically enter the desktop after the start. Note: do not need the user’s finger on the power button for a long time, but the normal press the power button can be. The principle should be the fingerprint identification device in advance to the fingerprint when the fingerprint scan and save, and then log in Windows and then verify the fingerprint. This design for the use of experience to enhance the considerable, called the black technology!

Highlights 4: The world’s first notebook with Dolby Atmos Sound System (Dolby Atmos Sound System)

As if most of the current notebook will claim to carry Dolby sound, that HUAWEI MateBook X why can be called the world’s first? The mainstream of the market claims to carry Dolby sound effects notebook, commonly used software certification approach, that is, only built-in Dolby tuning software. Notebook sound is good or bad depends on the internal speaker, tuning software can only play the role of icing on the cake.

Huawei and Dolby jointly developed a new speaker

HUAWEI MateBook X is doing this: Huawei and Dolby jointly developed a new speaker, each unique speaker contains two internal voice coil, and the use of upward pronunciation structure, the sound performance is more clear and natural, to achieve a real sense Immersive Dolby panorama experience, which is designed from the hardware level to achieve the effect.

Dolby panorama sound system

Compared to other brand notebook ambiguous Dolby sound, HUAWEI MateBook X equipped with Dolby Sound System (Dolby Atmos Sound System) is the first time to use the notebook, the perfect Dolby panorama sound Smart sound effects, in the sound The sense of immersion, sense of hierarchy, sense of position and sense of space will give the user a different feeling.

Highlights 5: the world’s first based on seven generations of Core i7 fanless 13-inch notebook

If the use of Core M, then fanless is not surprising, but the HUAWEI MateBook X is a use of Intel’s seventh-generation Core i7-7500U notebook, still do a fanless design, before the author even want to even think, This reflects the characteristics of Huawei dare to dare to do. HUAWEI MateBook X will be widely used in the field of aviation PCM (microcapsule phase change heat material) used in the notebook, the official known as the space Chi cold technology, the technology can quickly spread the heat of the processor

Equipped with seven generations of Core i7 fanless silent notebook

Fuselage at the bottom of a complete metal material, fanless design

This technology in the actual application in the end how, the author through the simulation of the real use of the environment measured. Test methods are as follows: open the browser, Photoshop and Office, so that the three run at the same time, which browser to play online ultra-clear video, and open two shopping home page; Photoshop on the picture Gaussian blur; Office Word Edit work. While opening the Task Manager to observe the frequency fluctuations of the CPU, open the AIDA64 to observe the real-time temperature of the components

Through the measurement can be seen, the processor frequency with the use of different strength, fluctuations in the 0.7GHz-2.9GHz, the processor frequency performance is normal; temperature, the processor temperature is basically maintained at between 51 ° -62 ° , The temperature performance is also more normal. The measured use of the browser, Photoshop and Office, basically covers the vast majority of business people use the demand. From the measured results, in the medium use of strength, the processor will not appear down the frequency, the temperature can also be controlled below 65 °, HUAWEI MateBook X space Chi cold technology performance is still very good.

It can be said that through the above five highlights can be concluded, HUAWEI MateBook X to the traditional notebook manufacturers on a vivid lesson: the original notebook or a lot of space can be improved. Of course, the five highlights only HUAWEI MateBook X more prominent features, in the input experience, battery life and performance, etc., HUAWEI MateBook X still has a good performance.

Input experience, HUAWEI MateBook X has a full-size keyboard, key process about 1.2mm, soft button soft, the input comfort is very good. In addition, the keyboard also has a backlight and spill-resistant design, according to the surrounding environment automatically adjust the keyboard backlight. Splash design can effectively reduce the data loss caused by the accident, the maximum protection of data security.

Full size keyboard

Life, HUAWEI MateBook X battery capacity of 41.4Wh, the capacity is quite impressive. The author through the PCMark 8 on the HUAWEI MateBook X battery life was evaluated, the test project for the Work accelerated. The entire test process uses the system default settings, where the brightness and volume are 75% and connect WiFi, half-way without human interference. The final machine life score of 4 hours and 38 minutes, this result replaced by ordinary daily use, the basic can meet the 1.5 days out of office needs.

PCMark 8 endurance test

Performance, HUAWEI MateBook X equipped with Intel’s seventh-generation Core i7-7500U processor, 8G LPDDR3 memory, hard drive machine equipped with 512GB PCIe SSD, graphics card is used Intel Core Graphics HD 620. Through the CINEBENCH R15, CrystalDiskMark and PCMark 8 test processor, hard drive and machine performance, from the test results, the processor performance is basically low-end processor in the high-end level, hard disk performance in the upper standard, machine performance in the upper level. This shows that the use of HUAWEI MateBook X in dealing with work, can greatly enhance the efficiency.

Hardware test data

In addition, because the HUAWEI MateBook X uses a slim design, the interface is only 2 × Type-C and 3.5mm headset interface, but intimate with the MateDock 2 docking station, to expand the USB3.0, Type-C, HDMI And the VGA interface, will be used in a lot of convenience; at the same time HUAWEI MateBook X support 802.11ac 2×2 MIMO dual-band Wi-Fi, the network connection faster and more stable; software level built-in MateBook housekeeper, you can more convenient and Huawei mobile phone even.

Interface layout

Product Summary:

HUAWEI MateBook X Although Huawei introduced the first traditional form of notebook, but in the design, function and other aspects of the performance is very advanced and mature and easy to use. HUAWEI MateBook X does not take the traditional way, but bold innovation, in the notebook’s portable, audio-visual experience, control experience, performance and other aspects of almost the same type of product is currently the top level. This makes the HUAWEI MateBook X not only a very good notebook, which has a power key integrated fingerprint recognition, Dolby panoramic sound system, i7 fanless features will become the object of many notebook manufacturers to follow, for the entire notebook market played A certain role in promoting.