This is Huawei's new Matebook 16. it's a ryzen 7 5800 h powered 16-inch laptop with a 3x2 aspect
ratio ips screen backlit keyboard very large glass touchpad it can run two external monitors
from its two full spec type c ports and it does have this version i was sent out from huawei
up to 16 gigabytes of ram and this one has 512 gigabytes of storage now i just wanted to point
out that this is a loan unit after my review i have to send it back to huawei i'm not being
paid for this video and all opinions expressed like all my reviews are 100 my own weight wise
i think this is a decent weight for a 16 inch full metal laptop just a fraction over two kilos
and with our supercharger the total travel weight then does come up to almost 2.4 kilos
this laptop's thickness is around approximately 19 millimeters that's not including the rubber
feet on the bottom so we do have here alloy it's a complete metal build high quality very
very good it's a premium laptop now pressing down on the lid there is almost no flex you don't have
to worry about the screen pressing up against the keyboard because well it's covered with glass and
i'll get onto that shortly that screen so yes you can open it up one-handed so this is our backlit
keyboard now we do have a first level which is a lot duller and then the second now it looks a
little bit brighter here than how i'm capturing it with my camera my lens and all my setup but
i wanted to show you two we've got this which is the pop-up camera of course so this we have seen
before on the macbook pro series the x and that is our front facing hd webcam which are people
either don't like it or some people actually do because it's hidden away and more private
so there is a way to hold our function key so when this is on you don't need to do the function
and then press those you can either disable that for the media controls brightness volume
we've got half size arrow keys and we do even have a mute key right here too with a status led
the same status led is in the caps lock too as well but overall this is a great keyboard
to type on so speakers either side i will give you a sample of those two in this review of course
and a glass touch pad now this one does support windows 10 gestures like they all do nowadays left
and right mouse buttons within it and our power button here does have a fingerprint reader in it
it's a good x1 works really well so you don't need to type out passwords to get into windows
on the left here of the macbook 16 we've got two full spec type c ports so they both accept power
you can use either one of them to power and charge the laptop status led so these do both
of them support 4k 60. our hdmi port here is hdmi 2.0 so this is 4k 60 in theory but i'm able to get
8 bit 4k 120 hertz out to my lg cxtv not a problem and it has been stable no glitches
or anything a combo 3.5 millimeter headphone and microphone jack there and on the right two usb
3.2 gen one ports and up the front we have these two dual array microphones these ones sound
really good then the underside we've got this intake grille right here so all the
fresh air is going to be sucked in i can see two fans inside here and they will have some
thermal transfer heat pipes in there now i can't unfortunately remove this rear cover
and show you the internals strictly no tear downs allowed with this lone unit unfortunately so a
large rubber foot here at the front the one at the rear is slightly taller just to improve of course
the ventilation now we've got a great screen on this particular laptop because of this very
very slim bezel around the outside we do have a 90 screen to body ratio so it's all screen
3x2 aspect ratio it's covered with glass that's scratch resistant and fully laminated so optically
bonded you don't see any gap between the ips panel then that glass 2520 by 1680 is the resolution
now according to huawei maximum brightness should be 300 nits but i do measure with my spyder 5 pro
286 nets for indoor use is great it is quite reflective obviously with the glass on it i do
wish it was a little brighter though if it was 350 nits i think that would be ideal now it does dull
right down to only about seven nits which is great so that's not bright at all good for late time use
and of course when you do that that is really going to extend the battery life which i'll get
onto later on in this in-depth review so taking a look now at our color gamut here the coverage
so uncalibrated it does have a bit of a bluish tint to it that's now the uncalibrated view blue
tint definitely present this is more of a neutral white now calibrated of course with that spider 5
pro i've got the color coverage here the gamut so we've got 94 srgb ntsc is 66 adobe rgb of 71
p3 also 71 and huawei does include this which is great they've got an srgb mode eye comfort mode
there and you can tweak the color temperature so as i mentioned it's quite a bluish tint white out
of the box here but you're able to adjust it with this if you weren't going to be using of course a
professional tool to calibrate this particular display so the internal storage here we do have
a samsung drive this is pcie 3.0 spec of course amd does not support pci4 only the latest 11th
gen intels do very very good speeds for pci 3 no problems there now this is a 512 gigabyte drive
and we do have the 16 gigabytes of ram now i won't show you general performance on this laptop
just to let you know that it is very very good so documents spreadsheets all that sort of stuff is
really quick on this very very fast now on first boot you are looking at around here you can see 70
gigabytes that is used for windows but they have partitioned this one into two separate partitions
which is the second one there for drive d 337 gigabytes now you can of course change
that with partition manager software if you're not happy about that at all so the city bench
r13 score very very good this of course ran for 10 minutes for the single course score of just
over 1400 points and close to 12 000 points for multi-core score out of this ryzen 7 5800 h now
i did run the performance mode you simply have to use function and then p to enable or disable this
so all the benchmarks i ran with the performance mode on that is 54 watts it's got eight cores
and 16 threads with this particular chipset very very potent and of course it's got vega graphics
with this so very very quick now some other synthetic benchmarks here that i did go through
geekbench 5 score here so over 14 000 points single core score and just over 7 200 for
multi-core score there seems a little bit low i think for the seven ryzen 7 5 800h it should
be a little bit better than this i have seen a little bit better especially when at 54 watts
here is our 3d mark sorry pc mark 10 score getting just over 6 000 points which is excellent
and that just goes to show you that what i was mentioning before that's very very
quick your daily pc workloads and things like that spreadsheets all of that really quick five strike
score here for integrated graphics with the vega 8 graphics here just over 3 000 320 that is actually
okay that's good for integrated graphics of course there's no dedicated gaming laptop this one here
it's more for business use what they're aiming at here night rate score so over 13 000 points
close to 14 000 again as a good score time spy uh just over 1 300 and you can clearly see that this
is yes not a gaming laptop as mentioned so those are the synthetic benchmarks i have run on that
and there's a few other things i wanted to show so we've got huawei's pc manager right here
and if you bring this up it gives you a little bit more information about our pc spec right there the
display that's a bo e 0 9 2 f if you're interested in that and there is our card right there for our
internet which is the very fast ax200 so that's wi-fi six spec and my throughput through that
one is just over 1.2 gigabits per second so very quick faster than a gigabit lan port with that
and then thermals on this for 60 hours of me just doing general kind of work some light browsing of
the internet youtube then those benchmarks stress testing it and gaming on it it did not go over
92.8 degrees as our maximum there for the thermals no thermal throttling on this but it was only just
a couple of degrees away from doing that that was again in that performance mode the fan noise not
too bad it does have dual fans within there but unfortunately huawei does restrict me with this
lone unit that i'm not able to open it up as i mentioned before and show you those internals
now we do have huawei share with this laptop so if you have any huawei devices for example their
matepad pro which i've got right here using this you are able then to connect up to them share the
screen move over files quite easily and you can view and just drag and drop things using huawei's
shared from one device to another now you can also do what is called their multi-screen collaboration
now i've connected up right now in the mirror mode so that's mirroring everything from the laptop
screen of the mate book 16 over to the mate pad 12.6 in the extended mode here you can see the
connection is very very quick it does work really well and what has surprised me is the latency so
i'll just move this over now to this screen here so i set that up as a second extended screen here
so i can take a look at content on that move them over so this is very handy if you've got
a mate pad for example you can do a bit of work on that when i go to the screen here you'll see
that when i scroll on it it's not too bad it's not perfect like a cable connection which by the way
you can also do but wirelessly i think for this kind of work the latency not too bad of course you
would not be using it for gaming or anything like that but for working with spreadsheets
this is very handy now this by far is the biggest letdown of this particular macbook 16. like we're
seeing with their previous laptops as we have of course that horrible location for a webcam
and it's just above our number keys right there so this points uh well up your nose up your neck
it's not a flattering position not only that the webcam quality does look very grainy now excellent
quality from the jewelry front facing microphones which is just in front of the touch pad
and if you were typing away on the keyboard and say zoom meeting people would see your fingers
you can hear a little bit of feedback there but that is kind of typical however i really think
it's overdue now that huawei needs to move this webcam into the top bezel i'm sure they can do it
now this laptop has the upward firing speakers here and here they do sound
really good i like them good volume a little bit of bass to them too here is a sample at 100 volume
and moving over to gaming so older titles like this one gta 5 running on which is basically just
over 720p resolution on normal settings you get close to 60 frames per second and you'll note up
here that it does hold a 2 000 megahertz maximum turbo on the vega 8 graphics which is good that
means it's not throttling down thermals are great when you're gaming and the fan noise
is just a light whooshing noise it's really not that offensive so these older titles you're able
to play a little bit on the side with a decent frame rate as long as you lower down the visuals
and the resolution you're not going to be running the max resolution because it simply won't be able
to hand it with that vega 8 graphics still this is very good performance for integrated graphics
and i'll have a look now at counter strike and we'll see how that one performs so i do have this
one running on what is basically medium settings and 1080p but it's 1680 by 1080 or something to
keep with that three by two aspect ratio so it looks really good i'm gonna frame rate here over
120 frames per second i've seen it get up to about 160 maximum it does sometimes dip below a hundred
but it really is quite good whoa whoa whoa okay dead straight away there but you get the idea that
nice frame rate here very very playable with older titles
video editing this is with adobe premiere pro so i have installed the latest version now the timeline
if i keep the playback resolution here on full which is the full 4k 100 megabits per second files
i can see that it sometimes is dropping a few frames per second with that so it's better to
really run it at a half resolution or quarter resolution for the playback now i just do basic
edits so no fancy transitions or anything like that the timeline seems to be quite
good relatively lag free good performance from that ryzen 7 the 5800h export time now
so what i'll do is my typical test it's one minute of footage at the youtube 4k preset
and that is h.2.64 we'll see how long it takes to export just one minute so we're down now to
the last five percent i'll hit pause here once that bar completely disappears there
we go so about one minute and you can roughly say three to four seconds to encode one minute of 4k
100 megabit footage to the youtube preset now the battery life on this one is not bad at all i think
it's very good so with light use 30 brightness in the balance mode so i did not use the power
mode up to 54 watts streaming youtube videos light work documents internet stuff like that
with just a 30 brightness i was able to get close to nine hours so that is excellent all up i mean
this is a really good laptop i have thoroughly enjoyed my time using and testing this loan unit
here from huawei backlit keyboard is great to type on we've got that very large glass touchpad and
just an overall general excellent build quality i think the weight too is not bad at all for a 16
inch laptop of course three by two aspect ratio the brightness i wish was a little brighter than
the approximate 280 nets i'm able to achieve out of this so they do claim 300 but still
indoor use it's perfectly fine fully laminated and that high resolution means you get a lot
of workspace on this which i do find is great and good for documents reading things like that
so it's a work orientated machine good speakers very good charge time too it's just over an hour
and 30 minutes with their super charging what about the things i don't like about it apart from
my minor complaint about the screen brightness i wish it was a little brighter is this right here
they're still using that pop-up webcam and i don't like that looking up your nose your neck
location of it now i do believe with huawei's engineering they should be able to put it up here
in the top bezel i do get it i know that a lot of people in the comments will probably mention but
chris you're missing the point here that it's hidden away the webcam and that means for privacy
reasons having it closed like that yes that is good okay i do understand that but still
i would like them to see deciding to actually incorporate it into that top bezel so there we go
overall i think this is a fantastic laptop here pricing it's not super cheap but i don't think
it's too bad considering the spec on offer so it's about 1200 euros here in europe for premium
build quality the great keyboard with the 16 gigabytes of ram and the 512 gigabytes of storage
that's great and unfortunately i couldn't show you the insides of it okay no tear down can show
the expandability so i don't know if we can add another ssd or anything like that sorry i
just couldn't take a look unfortunately that's just the way it is with these loan units thank
you so much for watching this video and i do hope to see you back in the next laptop review from me