chris here with huawei's macbook x pro
this is the
2022 revision there's quite a few tweaks
changes and improvements to make it even
better than the last gen model so a
touch pad goes right up to the end now
it's a very good touchpad and a bit of a
spoiler here probably the best i've used
in a windows laptop
it does come with windows 11 home we've
got a backlit keyboard fingerprint
unlocking face unlocking a new six
speaker sound system in this our screen
which is definitely the star of the show
here with this laptop so it's a 14.2
inch screen 3.1 k resolution 500 nits
improved color coverage and accuracy and
with the 10 touch points it's quite a
practical screen too a 60 watt hour
battery and it weighs 1.4 kilos but
what's powering it all well we do have
the core i7 1195 g7 with ir60 graphics
16 gigabytes of ram and a one terabyte
ssd included with our laptop you'll find
a type c two type a adapter our type c
to type c cable which is quite a good
length and then no this is not a mobile
power supply but this is our power
supply super small really do like the
size of this it is 90 watts the output
from it with huawei's supercharge
this laptop's weight is reasonable it's
not the lightest out there because of
the extra cooling they have in for the
boost mode more copper in there but it's
1.4 kilos the total travel weight so
when i do add the power supply and the
cable brings it up to 1.46
that is still respectable considering
other laptops will have heavier power
supplies so i lit here it's a matte
space gray color that they call it i
don't believe there's any other colors
at least at the time of this video while
we're there of course and then the hinge
this can be opened up one-handed and
it's a a very nice feeling hinges just
feels
super good really high quality just like
our keyboard here so obviously i don't
have an english keyboard with this one
but we still have our print screen
shortcut right there you can see insert
that's the delete key right there this
by the way is the spanish keyboard that
i have so the key travel is 1.5
millimeters it feels very good this
keyboard to type on i've been doing a
bit of typing on it and we do have some
speaker grills here at the top so
there's six speakers in total within
this particular laptop and they sound
really good in fact i'll give you a
sample of what they sound like now
[Music]
so they've got a bit of bass to them and
i think for a laptop speakers they've
definitely stepped up compared to what
we've had in previous generations from
them so we have a palm rest that is made
out of alloy 2 there really is no
plastic here the touch pad there's some
changes here you can see that goes right
to the absolute edge so we've got a lot
of space here but this touchpad using it
has to be
the best that i've used on a windows
laptop it is super accurate the finer
movements are just fantastic with this
now it's got free touch support with
their application you can actually tweak
the gestures you use so they've got a
lot more additional gestures on their
huawei compared to what you just get
with windows but it's that accuracy and
throughout this entire review i won't
plug in an external mouse i will just be
using this because it really is good
enough it's a fantastic touchpad that
huawei have in the macbook x pro 2022
model the power button here does double
as a fingerprint read it's from goodx
you can use this with windows hello it
works great and we also do have windows
hello face unlocking with that hd webcam
and the ir lights it has either side of
it on the underside here there is no
typical intake vent that you'd see on
other models of theirs for example this
is the makebook 14s which i absolutely
love this is a fantastic laptop they've
got vents here where it sucks in so with
the matebook x pro here the air is being
pulled in from the sides here and then
we do have of course the speakers too
within those we've got four solid rubber
feet and unfortunately i cannot show you
the internals of these lone unit models
then right up the front we have four
microphones here now due to their
location and the fact that we have four
mics instead of two it's a lot better i
can tell you now
than what we normally get with other
laptops that just have say two
microphones either side of the webcam
this location bringing them a little bit
closer to you actually does work out to
be really good as you'll hear later on
from my webcam sample
on the left we've got two type c ports
here so these are usb4 specs so display
out power delivery and video 4k 60 on
those all four of them status led
and there we have a 3.5 millimeter
headphone jack at least they did not
remove that and then looking at the
right you'll see that we have another
two of those type c ports now i really
would have liked to have seen on this a
type a at least one of them like we have
with their other model so this here is
the 14 s and it's a lot thicker you can
see the difference on them but we do
have a type a port which is very handy
so it looks a lot thinner and it is
because this one's just over 15
millimeters and that is me measuring
right here that's not including the rear
rubber foot so the build quality and the
finish of this laptop is absolutely
superb and the screen we have in this
one is a stunner very good so it's fully
laminated touch screen it does run up to
90 hertz you've got two options so you
can set it 90 hertz when you're plugged
in and when you're on the battery you
can just run it at 60 for the battery
savings of course so the bezels you can
see super slim yet there is a hd webcam
in the top here i'll give you a quick
sample now of what to expect out of that
webcam but also the microphones i showed
you before
so this webcam is hd 30 frames per
second you can see as i move my hand
it's not a stuttery terrible mess
dropping frames no so that's great to
see there is a status led next to the
webcam and the microphones of course the
inbuilt ones those four that i showed
you at the start of this video when we
took a look at the design they do a
really good job of giving us nice clear
audio which is what you want out of a
laptop now the touch accuracy i'm not
having any problems with at all it's 10
touch points that it does support
brightness tops out at 500 nits and this
is a 3x2 aspect ratio screen so 3120 by
2080 is our resolution you can't see any
pixels it's really sharp and bright but
what about the color gamut the coverage
so 91
of adobe rgb coverage here p3 is 97 that
is excellent
srgb 100
and then ntsc 98
so it is a top tier panel here this ips
is excellent and perfect for
professional use
and here we are in windows 11 that it
does ship with so it does have windows
11 home so it's not using windows 11 pro
that's interesting and then i installed
ram so 16 gigabytes of ram now i wanted
to point out that i can't show you the
internals but i do know that it's sold
it on board there are no ram upgrades
with this particular model so that's all
you're going to get when it comes to our
ram so it has the core i7 the 1195 g7
that i did talk about before now even
though it is last gen this is one of the
better last gen chips it definitely is
quite
quick still so i won't go over windows
performance in general because
everything's quick it's very snappy
loads up documents spreadsheets are
great but i will be testing out a few
other things later on in this video so
it'll show up eight times because it has
eight threads it's a quad core and just
wanted to point out too that we do have
very fast wi-fi six on board with this
as i would expect out of a machine like
this and it does have bluetooth 5.1 now
the speeds of that drive you can see
here they are good but it's pcie 3.0
spec so i would have thought that they
would have gone with pcie 4.0 because
after all the 11th gen here does have
thunderbolt 4 and it does support pcie 4
spec however they're using a lower spec
drive so i do hope that changes if they
make a revision of this which i'm really
looking forward to with possible
hopefully 12th gen intel or maybe even
an amd option 2 later on from the amd
6000 mobile series would also be good so
we have for our biometric unlocking near
the fingerprint power button reader i
showed you it works really well it's
very quick windows hello so face
unlocking and there is the infrared that
it does have with that hd webcam so that
means you can just log in with face
unlocking it is very quick and or finger
whatever you want to do whatever is your
preference there of course with that so
the general performance as i mentioned
like it is very quick there's no point
me showing you just things like basic
that i do on lower spec machines like
document spreadsheets it's great so here
i have a sony swordsmith file this is 4k
60 and just to see the performance now
what normally happens with windows
there we go did do it there's always
this initial little bit of a stutter
there with the default player i'm seeing
this on a lot of other systems and once
it is going the playback performance is
very good and jellyfish this is 4k an he
vc file 10 bit
very demanding but the ir60 graphics
does handle it well but again that
initial
funny weird thing that
windows 11 pro is doing which is
continually okay there we go it's
finally
stopped dropping frames and then we do
get the kind of performance we expect so
you're better off actually using windows
media player classic you can get that
separate and it wouldn't be doing that
it's something to do with windows
geekbench 5 score here so just over 1500
with the single core performance and
just over 5000 there well quite a bit
over that 5 000 almost 700 multi-core
performance there too for a quad core
this type of chip that is excellent now
yes if it did have the 12th gen we would
be looking at probably about 7 000 here
and then about 1700 or maybe even a
little bit higher they did make some big
improvements there intel with the 12th
gen when it comes to multi-core and even
the single core performance so that's
why i am hoping that later on we will
have a refresh to 12th gen or maybe even
amd 6000 series
then included software what do we get
now there's nothing that i would
classify as bloatware there's no
horrible antivirus program that's going
to keep nagging you keep popping up and
asking you to do this or that download
upgrade or pay no none of that we have
what is called their pc manager so
huawei pc manager you've got your
control panel ai search a few other
things manage files now under
optimization this is very handy you can
find this driver updates it's all in one
place you can just get all the updates
you need for everything without having
to hunt those down which can sometimes
be quite a pain so i really actually do
like this feature and they do push
through updates to update all those
drivers and then the software too
performance tuning and just a few other
little bits in there now they've got
this as well which is the control panel
just bring that up now this is very
handy there's a lot of different things
in there that you can just quickly
trigger with a single click and well two
clicks there screen recording huawei
share and super device now super device
i've talked about in my previous other
huawei videos it's actually very good
you can seamlessly move files from your
phone your tablet if it's huawei and
you're logged into it you can also do
screen share collaboration
and it's really quite productive and
useful the super device there and that's
all there too and free touch you've got
a few settings for the touchpad with
their own custom gestures that they do
have huawei so there's a lot in there
that you can either disable or just a
few little things to tweak with this
excellent touchpad which i'm really
enjoying on this model how about
something really demanding though so
this laptop's great for course
spreadsheets and documents but this is
video editing 4k but this is where i am
seeing the strength of the iris xe
graphics and being in the performance
mode which is what i'm testing out here
so scrubbing ahead in the timeline and
then playback it's not dropping frames
now i do have it set to half playback
resolution but if this was the older uhd
graphics then it would be dropping
frames it would not be as fast as at as
it is so this is a simple 4k edit that
i'm doing there's no grading fancy
transitions or anything like that not a
huge amount of layers or anything with
b-roll but it's all very quick so you
can edit 4k video on this which is
fantastic for a laptop like this then to
export 4k and the 4k youtube preset it
took around 39 seconds there's a two
second delay or so with the timer here
with me timing this and that is an
excellent result considering that this
doesn't have a dedicated gpu it's aided
by the fact we have that increased power
limit with the performance mode the very
fast ram and the iris xe graphics just
completely ripped through that in code
in a very decent time
now i know this is not a gaming laptop
but it actually does all right so this
is the witcher 3 720p is the resolution
on the lowest possible visuals and you
can see i'm getting a very respectable
frame rate here over 60 frames per
second that's because the iris xc
graphics in this model here with the of
course 28 watt part and that faster ram
especially is helping boost our frame
rate here so very playable at 720p
the witcher 3
then gta 5 here so this game playable at
1080p i am on the normal settings so the
population density and the viewing
distance is in the middle
and at 1080p i could lower the
resolution down but i could certainly
lower down the visual visuals to get a
slightly better frame rate so this game
should actually be performing a little
better here i have seen up around 60
frames per second
but for some reason the gpu use has
dropped down to 70 percent here
not at 90 so that is what is
contributing there to a slightly
lower frame rate in this game than
expected but it is still very playable
fan noise and thermals so the fans in
this particular ultrabook here are very
good so you don't normally hear it when
you have it on the battery normally not
at all and if you do something really
demanding and then when you're on power
now and then yes it does cycle on and
off now the fans are a very pleasant
noise they're not that bad at all when
you do push it very hard and especially
in the power mode uh the performance
mode which is what i've been using now
that's balanced and then into
performance mode so that's actually
taking that power limit right up here
you can see power limit level one is up
to then 35 watts and level two up to 64.
and i pulled a total system power here
of a really huge 73 watts considering
this is a 28 watt part huawei's letting
us push this really to the absolute
maximum so that's why it did peak at
103 degrees celsius the good news out of
this is it was just for
a few seconds and then those
temperatures dropped down into the lower
90s once the fan rpm crept up there with
the current fan profiles they do have
then the battery life it's only a 60
watt hour battery and i wasn't expecting
amazing results it's not brilliant but
if i do run
30 brightness on this and 60 hertz with
the display refresh rate not 90 90 does
take quite a bit of a toll on it you are
able then a to achieve with light tasks
only so documents spreadsheets gmail a
little bit of youtube about five tabs
open in chrome just over seven and a
half hours that's a little better than i
was expecting out of it but not an
amazing result however the charger is
very small it's lightweight so easy
enough to carry around with you and if
you have other huawei devices it will
also support the supercharge on those
you can charge your mobile phone and
this too which is handy so build quality
weight of it 1.4 kilos it's good very
good and the build is absolutely superb
it is top-notch with this laptop the
touchpad is one of the best i have ever
used in a business style laptop like
this in fact in any recent windows
laptop it's that good the keyboard
excellent 1.5 millimeters of travel good
feedback from those keys backlit the
screen fantastic up to 500 nets good
color accuracy and coverage it's fit for
professional use very slim bezels
webcams not amazing a little grainy but
we do have excellent microphones at the
front here and then those six built-in
speakers that's the biggest surprise for
me out of this thing those speakers with
huawei sound there sound fantastic
really good
some bass good volume i just was blown
away by them i really wasn't as was a
big surprise for me
so overall it's a great package but
there have to be cons right well for me
it's the lack of a type a port on this
so we've got four
type c ports on this which is great they
all support video out 4k 60. they
support data of course and charging so
all four of them four of them can charge
but it's just a type a port would have
been handy so we don't have to carry
around a dongle all the time if you need
to connect up a usb pen drive it's so
handy having that type a port on it like
we do get with the matebook 14s which is
a slightly cheaper model than this and i
would have mentioned
the
second con being the price originally
they announced the price
which shocked everyone
was
2199 euros for this and i just went wow
that's
that's too expensive
luckily now the time of this video that
i'm making this review it's
14.99 here at least in spain so they
really did bring that price down
considering the fact it does have 11th
gen in this i don't know about you but
when i buy a brand new laptop i want the
latest and greatest chipset in there i
don't want last gen so i do hope huawei
can revise this model here i'm crossing
my fingers they give it 12th gen elder
lake they can put a taipei port on it
and if they don't change the rest of it
they will probably have the best
business
laptop that you can get it really is
that good it's an impressive machine
here so thank you so much for watching
this review do check out my review of a
very similar machine that is a little
cheaper it is the huawei mate book 14 s