This is huawei's mate station x it's an all-in-one windows 11 pc now it comes with a stunning
4k display it's 28.2 inches visa hdr 400 certified it does support touch and it gives you 10 touch
points with this display now it's got built-in speakers 3 in total and it's got a cnc machine
built to it now it's running the ryzen 7 5800h as its apu with vega 8 graphics it does come with 16
gigabytes of ram and dual channel a 512 gigabyte ssd wi-fi six and it does support huawei's super
device for seamless connectivity between other huawei devices like the mate pad and the mate
x2 i have here now this is what is included with the main station x you get the keyboard bluetooth
more on that soon a power cable and a mouse so this keyboard is a very nice keyboard i do like
it now we've got huawei share right here with the shift key that's using nfc so if you have another
huawei device you hold it over that it will then connect up pair up fingerprint reader right here
and it is bluetooth now typing on this keyboard very nice and comfortable it's got good travel
so it's similar to a laptop keyboard but you gain more travel it's about 1.6 1.7 or so millimeters
of travel there with a good feeling to the keys now the keyboard is not backlit but it's of good
quality middle frame around it there's no flex and there's no bounce at all coming from this keyboard
now the mouse quality doesn't feel quite as good as the keyboard it is
quite lightweight plastic and we do have a metal scroll wheel third mouse button when you press
it in left and right mouse buttons there and it is using an optical sensor it just feels a bit
cheaper than that keyboard that's the only complaint from me and i wish the size of it
was a little bit larger i do find it to be a little small the size of this mouse the
maidstation x build quality is top-notch it is excellent it does have cnc machining it's made
out of alloy that does have a matte finish to it it looks great and you can see the big huawei logo
there at the back of it the bass is very solid it's not going anywhere when you tap on that
screen it does not rock around and you can see where the power plug connects in the back there
so on the right of the stand here we've got two type a usb 3.1 and our power on button then on the
left side two type c's they are usb 3.1 gen one and a 3.5 millimeter combo headphone jack now side
on it looks very thin now i've got it angled right up the screen this is the maximum you can tilt it
up you cannot tilt it down you cannot adjust the height either and it cannot be swiveled so it's a
little limited there however huawei has optimized it for use on a desk so i believe the height of it
is good you just need to adjust your seat height if you can do so now there's no hdmi input with
this and there's also no upgrades there's no way to get inside it which is a shame and onto our
display now so this one is 28.2 inches and it's a very vibrant display touch that it does support 4k
plus resolution so the maximum brightness huawei's claim is 500 nits but i'm able to achieve 530
sixness which is over which is excellent so the touch response the accuracy i do find to be very
good no problems at all with it it does add to the productivity the fact that you can swap over to
files folders drag and drop everything and just use your finger on such a nice display which is
excellent so the color coverage we've got 96 percent of p3 adobe rgb that is 87 ntsc is 85
and then 100 is rgb so it is a professional grade screen that they do have in this the ips now to
my eyes it does not look fully laminated there's a slight gap between the touch digitizer glass
and then that ips below but overall it's an excellent screen and i just wish it had
hdmi input is the only thing it's lacking so i could plug in other devices to enjoy the screen
the main station x does ship with windows 11 home it's fully activated via a digital
license there so no problems with that and we do have the 16 gigabytes of ram and a 512 gigabyte
ssd as i mentioned now the ssd speeds are quick this is a pcie 3 ssd so it doesn't support pcie
4 spec not at this stage with the 5000 series of the amd chips that all come later with the 6000
series of course they will eventually be upgrading to that now under the device manager you will see
just a couple of things i wanted to point out here you'll see the fingerprint reader under biometrics
and that is a cpc fingerprint reader and it does seem to work fine that's the one that's
on the keyboard there of course and you'll see there's our disk drive which is a
j micron one now i do have an external drive connected up at the moment that's why you also
see that listed there so display of course is running off the vega it's vega 8 graphics and
the processor is listed that ryzen 7 the 5800h 16 times because it's eight cores 16 threads
and i'll get onto the performance of that just in a second so wireless is handled by the wi-fi
ax200 this is a very good chip very fast to get about 1.3 gigabit transfers it does have bluetooth
5.2 with it and there's really nothing else there of interest uh the network cards well there is no
lan port on this either so it's just wireless so they are missing out on that now the performance
of it let's get on to some benchmarks here so you can see that it is very capable very very
quick here with the geekbench 5 score getting close to 1500 points multi-core score around
8 000 which is pretty standard there for the ryzen 7 5 800 h and there are a couple
of 3dmark benchmarks i did run even though this does not have a dedicated gpu the vega graphics
actually does okay graphic score they're getting close to 3700 and this is the night raid which
is more for integrated graphics they say to test this one graphic score getting up and just over
14 000 points there which is good and our cinebench score very good this is excellent so
1400 single core and then we have over 11 000 points there for the multi-core score
so it is a very quick pc and everything's blazing fast so no point me going over your standard
kind of tasks on a pc like this because it's very quick but youtube 4k performance i'm going to have
a look at now this is with chrome so we'll see how quick it does load in and the performance if
it's going to drop any frames so the 4k demo file should show up the one that i normally test out
which is this one sony's 4k demo so we'll enable our stats here for nerds but i'll just set
it first to our 4k resolution and i'll enable those stats now i don't have the best internet
connection but it should hopefully be able to handle as you can see so far zero dropped frames
which is excellent i'll just skip ahead a little bit it's not dropping any frames and that is
running at full screen now no drop frames i can't seem to resize and move that but
you get the idea that it does handle 4k 30 just fine but what about 4k 60 with the ryzen 7 5800h
and for this test it is a lg demo file so three frames have dropped 61 now now that could actually
be down to my internet connection the buffer health is zero so there we go that's the problem
of my internet connection but when you do have fast enough internet for 4k 60 which i'm currently
lacking right here and then it shouldn't drop any frames either the vega 8 graphics can handle it
and of course it does support huawei's super device and if you do have a another huawei device
that's logged in with the same id for example i've got my mate pad right here and the huawei mate x2
i can then seamlessly drop over files between them and it's great for doing that multi-screen support
as well so i can share the screen have it come up on there too and it's excellent for that you've
also got huawei shear and the driver updates and everything with their own built-in software
and then we've got some fantastic audio with this model here so it does have two full-range
speakers but also a sub built in so you get a bit of bass too the volume out of this all in one pc
is great and they've done a very very good job with the audio so here's a sample at 100 volume
and this is our webcam quality what you can expect out of it so it's a hd webcam you're
listening to audio that's recorded through the inbuilt microphones and it does have a status led
next to that camera so it is i think the quality here reasonably good it's going to be perfect for
things like skype zoom your online conference calls whatever you need with an all-in-one
pc like this and what about gaming performance can the vega 8 in this ryzen 7 game well this is
the witcher 3 and i do have it set to 720p and i'm in the town here this is one of the bigger
towns of the game and where it is the most demanding that's why i always test out this
area because there's a lot of npcs a lot to render and we are getting just over 30 frames per second
so even a demanding game like this i know it is old but it is just playable on the low settings
and as mentioned 720p but at least you can do this with the vega 8 graphics grand theft auto 5 so i
do have it set to 1080p normal settings and you can see out here in the street are getting around
close to 70 frames per second sometimes which is very good you see the clock the clock there on the
vega 8 so the gpu is holding the 2000 megahertz and it does not throttle down which is great
that's what we want to see we don't want to see it throttling due to temperatures and thermals which
i'll get on to shortly so performance is looking good in the car a little bit slower here down to
just under 60 frames per second but not bad at all for an older title title like gta 5 here
fair noise and thermals are excellent on the mate station x so it is only getting up to almost
90 degrees celsius with ambient 25 to 24 degree temperatures in the room here where i'm testing
and the fan it's a silent all-in-one pc apart from when you game or do something very demanding you
can just hear the fan but it is very quiet so can this ryzen 7 the 5800h hand or something demanding
like video editing it can now just basic 4k edits is all i have in my timeline right here and the
playback resolution i do have set to a quarter and it does seem quick now normally with a very
detailed in-depth kind of review that i do have and if it's got a lot of transitions and layers
and whatnot you really do need a dedicated gpu but the ryzen 7 can handle this just the more basic
edits so let's have a look at the export time now for one minute of footage and it has just finished
up that was about 43 seconds taking into account my delay there with the timer so that's quick
under one minute is excellent now you can access the bios with it but not a lot we can do here
everything is basically locked down there's just some settings here for example if you want to turn
off the camera the audio wireless lan bluetooth things like that you can do that boot order and
bootable devices there that is it when it comes to our bios settings with the mate station x and
i do have some mostly good news here for linux lovers out there that want to run linux on the
makestation x it works touch is working okay you can see that i can select things move that around
audio does work wireless is working the only thing is the brightness control seems to do nothing
so there is a bit of tweaking there with the drivers in order to get that to work because
right now i think it is running just basically in the absolute top brightness here which is
530 something nits all right then so what is the final verdict here with the huawei mate station
x i think it's a fantastic all-in-one pc it comes with windows 11 it has a touch screen
it's got that anti-glare coating so it doesn't look as bad as you would think it would being
glass covered with the touch there's a digitizer on it now it's hdr 400 the brightness tops at over
500 nits which is excellent but sadly there is no hdmi input on this base at all so we cannot
for example decide to play uh playstation through it xbox through connect up other devices now you
can do it with windows 11 wirelessly you can use super device as well that huawei has so i can
seamlessly connect and work with for example my mate pad the mate x2 and transfer files over
and even screen sharing and things like that which is handy very very good to have it's just if it
did have hdmi input and could be used also as a monitor would have been very good now there's
no upgrade ability either either with it so you cannot just go along and stick 32 gigabytes of
ram on this you can't add another one terabyte ssd to it unfortunately it's not an option what
would also been good from huawei is an optional dedicated gpu even if it's just a mobile one
after all it's got a mobile part in it but if we had the option
to use or add an rtx 3050 or 3060 would have been perfect for more serious
3d work for video editing it would help out you can do a bit of it as i showed you 4k video
editing you can do a little bit of gaming but if i had a dedicated gpu you could get even further use
out of such a great all-in-one pc here so the build quality overall look of it i think is very
very stylish it's fantastic it's just it has its limitations as i have pointed out
here so thank you so much for watching my review of the mate station x from huawei