this week at MWC while i introduce two new laptops the next generation of the
huawei mate book X Pro and the huawei mate book 14 last year of Huawei
introduced the mate book X Pro an excellent combination of price and
performance now we're seeing the next generation
now functionally this looks exactly the same as the previous generation and it
should its identically the same accepted ways in at two point nine three pounds
what's new about this is what's inside of it a whiskey Lake processor the same
that was in the mate book x13 that was introduced at CES now the mate book X
pro sits at the top of a mate book food chain it's the premium model for Huawei
and it comes with premium features what you're looking at right now is a
Microsoft Surface style 3000 by 2,000 inch to 3000 by 2,000 pixel display
which comes in at thirteen point nine inches and measures 450 nits and output
inside of it is an 8th gen core i7 85 65 you again that's whisky Lake it also
comes with a core i5 model the 80 to 65 what's new about this particular model
are a couple of things first of all the previous generation emitted the
Thunderbolt IO ports this comes with two we have two right here on the side as
well as a headphone jack and on the other side we have a standard USB type a
port that helps eliminate the need for a USB type-c port jack inside of it 16
gigs of memory up to a terabyte of SSD storage which is actually something that
we haven't seen from too many other laptop manufacturers now we also see
from a wireless perspective 802 11 AC and bluetooth 5.0 it comes with Dolby
Atmos in a speaker system which is actually a requirement these days
because most laptop speakers are sort of lousy the mate book X pros really pumped
up the volume and the previous generation we're expecting this to be
the same again a beloved feature this in fact is the power button but it's also a
fingerprint and when you log in it really logs you
in a couple of seconds and worked actually somewhat flawlessly to log you
in now we are told that this will ship after MWC it's the previous generation
was 1499 we don't know the exact price we're expecting it to come out in late
May now let's turn to the next model that while we showed us and that is the
mate book 14 now this doesn't come with any particular letter designation you
may be familiar with a mate book 13 which came out at CES this is simply the
larger version of this laptop and actually it contains many of the same
features that the 14 or so that a 13-inch did as well from a displays
standpoint it's a 14-inch display 2160 by 1440 again a 3 by 2 ratio it puts out
a little bit less light 300 nits we consider 260 to be satisfactory you'll
notice that it is rather chunky that's not necessarily a bad thing it gives it
an area of sturdiness we don't know the exact weight but it comes in at fifteen
point nine millimeters thick again whiskey Lake inside of this core i7 85
65 u or a core i5 80 265 you the one thing that we should mention is that
both of these models the mate book X pro as well as this come with a discreet
graphics processor inside them specifically the geforce MX 250 that
gives it a little bit more graphics oomph not going to make this a gaming PC
but it's certainly going to allow you to play videos back with with little or no
effort and it actually will allow you to play some games just not the latest Call
of Duty or battlefield this has a step down in terms of i/o again on the side
you're seeing USB type a ports unfortunately one of these is a USB type
2 or you saw a USB 2.0 port one of these is a USB 3.0 port we would have liked
both of them would be USB 3.0 just for simplicity's sake unfortunately it
didn't happen on the other side at least we do have us
see but it's not a thunderbolt enabled like the maple gex Pro it's simply power
and the basic data capabilities however we do see HDMI here as well so again we
don't necessarily need a USB see hub we do have the output right there like the
mate book X Pro we have the fingerprint reader we also also have a very large
trackpad on both devices that's one of the strengths of the Huawei machines and
actually it's one of the things that makes it quite easy to use by the way
that keyboard has about one point two millimeters of travel I've also found it
to be quite easy to use and comfortable one thing that we mentioned mentioned on
both these devices as well is the 1 megapixel camera you'll notice that the
bezel on these devices especially this one is quite thin that screen goes
almost out to the corners we're talking about screen of body ratios of about 90%
or more and what that means is there really isn't any opportunity to put the
camera into the bezel there's this entire room for it so you have to put it
sort of at this keyboard level now what this means in reality of course is that
you're anyone who's talking to you on skype is going to be staring at your
chin which is a little bit awkward on the other hand again you really don't
have too many other options as far as where to put it we have seen laptops
that put it sort of out to the side but again Huawei's uses a full-size keyboard
and tries this use up all the available space now that's pretty much it except
for a couple of new usability features which we should talk about as well now
there is actually let's see if it'll work there is actually a feature to go
ahead and take a screenshot you can obviously in previous years use the
print screen or the screen snip capability so with this a three-finger
swipe enables you to take a screenshot which you can go ahead and highlight
using a finger here and that'll go ahead and take a picture of the screen which
you can go ahead and do a number of things with including recognize any text
that's actually in the image now there are a couple of other features involved
than this and Huawei sort of lumps them under the category of what's called one
hop if you have a Huawei phone you can go ahead and pair it with either of
these two devices using the NFA and FC capabilities in the phone and it only
works with Huawei phone so by the way when you do that you have a couple of
options you can go ahead and share images basically either from the phone
or to the laptop over a 30 megabits per second NFC connection and that allows
you to quickly go ahead and take photos from your phone and put them into your
PC for editing you can also shake your phone and if you do so what happens is
it takes a snapshot of what's actually on your PC so if you're in the middle of
a Skype call for example you can go ahead and take a quick screenshot of
your Skype call and share it with whoever you want the third thing is
clipboard sharing again this is something that you can go ahead and do
with email or some other capabilities but you can go ahead and use the
one-hopper capability to go ahead and share it directly from your phone so
that's the huawei mate book X Pro as well as the huawei mate book 14 staying
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