Only recently in the channel i reviewed this the matebook 16 from huawei it's a fantastic laptop
i really do like it but i feel for those that are going to be using a laptop for work and business
this here is even better this is the macbook 14 s it's got a lot of things on offer more so
than this model it's got a 90 hertz ips screen so it still has the 3x2 aspect ratio but it's also a
touch screen we've got thunderbolt 4 support with this and another type c port so 2 type cs in total
and we do have lp ddr4 x ram with this which is extremely quick over 4.2 gigahertz the ram paired
up with iris xc graphics does offer some really amazing performance for integrated graphics out
of this model now it does offer pci 4 support with the 11th gen this model that huawei sent out to me
is powered by the core i7 the 1137 0h it has 16 gigabytes of ram and that ssd is one terabyte
the matebook 14s comes in a plain white box as you can see that's it and we do get a type c to type c
cable of reasonable length and then our supercharger dependent on of course your
region where you're buying this if you buy from europe you'll get an eu charger this is the uk one
so it's their supercharger 90 watts and it takes just under two hours to fully charge the laptop
we have that typical matebook finish which is a brushed metal finish matte here we've got the
huawei logo and yes it can be opened up one-handed and we're greeted with a nice keyboard here for a
14-inch laptop it's not too bad what they've done with it now we do have the half-sized arrow keys
and you can see we are missing like the matebook 16 there is no page up or down button or no
home button and we do not have the pop-up webcam right there that's where it would be but it's of
course in the top bezel now with this particular model so this is all metal palm rest we have the
evo sticker here with intel and the touch pad nice and large very good smooth finish to it
it's accurate finer movements i've had absolutely no problems with either the good thing about the
keyboard too it's got about 1.5 millimeters of travel it's very comfortable tactile keyboard
nice feel to it and it's not loud and pressing down here there really is no bounce there is no
flex to it at all and it is a backlit keyboard so the keyboard is not particularly bright that
is the first level there which looks rather dull in fact it's looking a lot duller on camera now me
capturing it than what it is in person right here and that is then the second level so after a while
it will turn itself off automatically to save on our battery now like the mate 16 we do have a
fingerprint reader in the power button there so that's a good x brand one it works really well
if you don't want to enter in passwords you can use that and you do have the option to use the
webcam as well for windows hello face unlocking which again does work well now the thickness of
this one we are looking at approximately 15 millimeters and then just over 1.4 kilos of
the weight of it so that is very good and i'll give you the total travel weight of this shortly
so we do have a rubber foot at the rear slightly higher than the one at the front this is the
intake vent there are two little fans in here that suck cold air in from here and then blow the hot
warm air out of the back and i'll get onto the thermals and the fan noise and later on in this
review so two down with firing speakers there are in fact four speakers in total with this two subs
two tweeters here is a sample of them at 100 volume it does sound very good for a small laptop
on the right we've got a usb type a port this is usb 3.2 gen one specs so as i mentioned before
the thickness here is about 15 millimeters so it is thin and then the top spec model that i have
here which is the core i7 one with the space gray one terabyte of storage and 16 gigabytes of ram
we do have thunderbolt 4 with this so that can output 8k 30 30. we've got another type c port
they can also output video this is 4k 60 tested hdmi 2.1 with this so that's 4k 120 hertz that
i've tested working fine with my lg cx and then a 3.5 millimeter headphone jack with microphone
support very good quality out of this there's no static or interference or any problems with it
and then up the front a bit of a change here with a microphone so instead of just the two
we normally have like the mate book 16 and previous models four microphones now and
they are using some ai tech to improve the voice clarity now the laptop weighs 1.42 kilos however
with the cable and our power supply you're then looking at a total travel weight of 1.66 kilos
which is excellent so it is lightweight and portable now we have a 14.2 inch fully laminated
touchscreen here with the matebook14s the resolution of it as you can see bring this up 25
20 by 1680 right now i'm running a scaling of 200 which is just recommended by windows
and so we can see things a little clearer now the touch response i find to be very very good
the accuracy i've had no problems with it and the brightness does top out at over 380 net so it's a
lot brighter than the matebook 16. color coverage here we've got 72 percent of p3 adobe rgb is 72
ntsc is 67 and srgb is 94 so good brightness supports 10 touch points and when i am tapping
on the screen it does wobble a little bit but that is normal something we cannot avoid the hinge does
feel good and it doesn't feel like it's going to be loosening up anytime soon for me so overall
i rate this as a great screen i like the 3x2 aspect ratio and the fact that does support touch
so the laptop is running the 11th gen as i mentioned the core i7
it is the 11370h now this is a 35w part but if you turn on the performance mode it will then
use up to 45 watts so that is function mp it's a balance mode and then onto the performance mode
and then the refresh rate this is another important one that you can change it over to 60
for power saving which is by default and then i will be running it the entirety of this review in
90 hertz not that you're going to actually see that because i record of course in 30
frames per second so 16 gigabytes of ram maximum unfortunately no 32 gigabytes of ram which would
it would have been really good for this now the memory is definitely a huge positive here it's
very very fast now the speed is not actually this 3.7 gigahertz it's in fact 4.2 megahertz
so over 4.2 gigahertz it's the low power ddr4x so extremely quick ram here and that really aids and
benefits that iris xc graphics which you'll see later on when i show you some synthetic benchmarks
so not too much of things to point out here of interest really but we do have a one terabyte
ssd now oddly enough the slot in here according to hw info and the spec of this machine it is a
pcie 4.0 spec slot okay but ssd that they used in it isn't we are only getting here
just your standard mvme okay so pci 3.0 spec speeds so that's a bit disappointing
and then a wireless card this one is the intel wi-fi six ax 201 so that's paired up with
bluetooth 5.1 it's very very quick now transfers you can get out of this i'm getting with my wi-fi
6 router approximately 1.3 gigabit per second transfers so it's very very quick it can probably
even do better with a slightly better wi-fi six router so it's very very fast no lan port
on this unfortunately but i didn't really expect it with this ultrabook style of laptop cinebench
r23 score here does show that it is for a quad core it's a fast machine okay so this performance
getting over six thousand six thousand five hundred forty three for our multi-core score
over 1400 for a single core score there for an 8 core is very good now to put this
into perspective the matebook16 will be able to achieve 12 000 points double the score but it has
of course double the cause and 16 threads this has eight threads maximum turbo is 4.8 gigahertz
and a 3.3 base clock so more synthetic benchmarks here let's take a look at some of these are very
very good some big surprises when it came to well performance in general just excellent especially
the ios graphics but first geekbench here really good score single core score there getting close
towards 1600 and multi core close to 6 000 for a quad core very very good score but look at this
this is where i started to actually break some records here i've got the best score ever for this
chipset with the iris xc graphics when it comes to fire strike now this is over 2 000 points more
than the vega 8 graphics you can find in the ryzen 7 5 800 h macbook 16 really impressive performance
there with the graphics i'm blown away by the iris xc performance here paired up with that super
quick ram you really can see the difference and you're seeing gaming soon when i get on to that
and night raid here another really impressive score graphic score here look at this 20 000 it
is another record it's a record breaker so that is great and then time spy still for integrated
graphics i mean this is a really good score 16 over 1600 points here for the graphic score
of course as a dedicated gaming machine if it was one this would be a poor score but for integrated
graphics this is the best i have seen it is really quick here's a sample from our front webcam so
yay it is in the top bezel it's not located in the keyboard unlike the mate book x series and because
i make book 16 that i just recently reviewed quality of the camera itself not good you can
see it looks washed out a little bit grainy now it does have a 720p infrared camera too with it
so that means that it works with windows hello for face recognition for unlocking which is another
positive there because it's always on as soon as you lift it up the lid is going to see you and
unlock you don't need to pop up the camera now the microphone quality is good because of those four
mics they've done an excellent job with that sound quality overall on this laptop i really do like i
think it is excellent i just wish they would start using 1080p improved cameras in their laptops and
onto our video editing now so i'm using adobe premiere pro here this is a 4k clip that i
always test out and it is fast and fluid but i'm only running a quarter playback here with the
resolution so i'll change that to full and you'll see that it actually runs fine it doesn't seem to
drop any frames it doesn't seem out of sync but i have noticed that sometimes when you skip around a
little bit on the timeline you may see sometimes a little bit of lag and that is typical that's
normal there really when you have a dedicated gpu it's just so much better and faster however the
iris xc graphics is really good as i have shown you it's quite potent so export times i'll test
that out now we'll see how long it will take to export one minute of footage at the youtube preset
and it is about to finish up this is super fast look at that about you could say 35 seconds
for one minute of 4k footage to be encoded in the youtube preset and can it gain this laptop here
so the macbook 14s with the iris xc graphics and that super fast ram actually does really well so
this title here is cyberpunk 2077 low settings low textures 1600 by 1900 resolution and i am really
impressed by this performance it's getting always over 30 frames per second this is a demanding game
it's got a lot going on even on the low settings now this was the old gen intel graphics we would
only be getting about 16 frames per second on average or 18 not good not playable but for
this one to be over 30 i am super impressed so the iris xc is a huge steer pop and it's doing
a little bit better here than even the vega 8 graphics we've seen in the ryzen 7 5 800 h
gta 5 now so this is 1080p but because of the 3x2 aspect ratio screen it looks all crushed
in it doesn't have the borders top and bottom so i set this to the normal settings and in
the middle for the pedestrian variety the view distance and those other settings so exactly the
same as what i had for the matebook 16 but it's performing a little bit better now that matebook
was probably getting around on average about seven or eight frames per second less even ten
so if you do intend to play older titles and light games like this on the side i would go for this
model the macbook 14 s over the matebook 16 even though it does have that super powerful ryzen 7
the 5800 h so really good for these kind of older titles and games you better get
this kind of performance without even having of course a dedicated gpu but what about an
older lighter title counter strike let's see how that one runs on the iris xe graphics here
as expected the game is running really well we're at 90 frames per second and i'm just
up against some bots here so i could turn on the v-sync and keep it at 90 frames per
second matching the 90 hertz refresh rate with the screen so older titles like this
very very playable and of course i'm able to get kills here because i'm just up against
some easy bots and not human players so really smooth great for these older titles
now that was just a sample of the fan noise so it gets a little loud when you are gaming
and coding video or running cine bench now the thermals it did end up peaking at 94 degrees
celsius now what i did notice though that when the fans ramp up that when you're putting it
under continual load like cinebench or gaming the thermals are pretty good the temperatures
do drop right down and it does maintain it just spikes to 94 or the early 90s triggering thermal
throttling for just a few seconds until that fan curve and the fam rpms creep up
and then it takes over and it's fine so i think they need to adjust a little bit the fan curves
to be maybe a bit more aggressive on the higher end temperatures so it kicks in a little sooner
then this would not happen at all but the sustained performance is what is important then
it is not throttling but yes it did trigger it and it does get hot these are hot chips and even the
five ryzen eight hundred h and the matebook 16 does to get quite hot into the 90s and this laptop
does support huawei's share and the multi-screen collaboration that you can do so you can share
the screen and have it mirrored as a secondary monitor on the mate pad pro right here for example
and then you've got huawei share 2 which you can easily connect up the two devices and swap over
files so it's rather handy if you happen to have other huawei tech like phones or tablets
now i do get linux working on it but unfortunately the touchpad doesn't work the touchscreen does not
either so there are going to be some driver issues to work through if you're going to be
running linux on this laptop now battery life on this with the brightness set to 30 percent
at the 60 hertz mode not the 90 hertz and in balanced i can get around over seven hours so
the battery life is good it's not amazing but it's good now if you use 90 hertz and you're
doing something a little bit more demanding than what what i was doing was just light work on it
then it really comes down to about five and a half hours so it takes a bit of a toll of course
the high refresh rate on our battery life so this laptop i think is absolutely fantastic this
is one of the best i think work and business laptops that i've come across
now it's not cheap i see that this configuration in europe is going to be selling this is the top
spec the core i7 with the one terabyte drive for about 1400 euros so it is pricey but you've got
thunderbolt 4 pcie 4.0 support but the odd thing is the ssd included is a pci3 one it doesn't seem
to support psi4 speeds i could never achieve them so you'd have to swap it out and put say something
like a samsung 980 pro in here to get the proper speeds then we've got the touchscreen the 90 hertz
the super fast ram sadly it's only up to 16 gigabytes of that lp ddr4 x ram but it runs at
over 4.2 gigahertz that means that as i showed you iris xc performance in this is fantastic it's the
best i have seen ever on integrated graphics i ended up getting what were basically records
that i set world records for the integrated graphics performance for iris xc with this
chipset on 3d mark it's the highest scores ever that i've actually seen in the highest reported
it's a pretty amazing performance there that means even a game like cyberpunk 2077 was playable
achieving over 30 frames per second average on low settings but not the lowest resolution
so in all up it's got i think almost the complete package here the webcam great to see it up the top
unlike this model here of course which is that pop-up one that looks up your nose and your neck
but it's only 720p and the quality not that great i really wish they'd improve upon that quality
great speakers excellent build quality excellent keyboard touchpad it really is the absolute
best that i've come across i think for a work orientated business laptop so thank you so much
for watching my review here of the mate book 14 s do check out my review of this one which is
the macbook 16. it's a cheaper model about 200 euros cheaper for the ryzen 7 the 5800 h model
eight core 16 thread much more powerful cpu but not the vega 8 the vague a here is weaker than
what we had with the iris xc graphics so do check out that review and i'll see you in the next one