Huawei Matebook X Pro: nice screen and extraordinary performance.

IT 168 evaluation On April 12, Huawei MateBook X Pro was officially unveiled in China. As Huawei's second-generation notebook product, this MateBook X Pro combines 100% sRGB color gamut, 3:2 ratio of 3000*2000 resolution, 9 1% screen ratio of full screen and 65438. Core? +MX 150 configuration, hidden cameras and many other highlights in one.

In addition, an independent cooling fan and Dolby panoramic acoustic response system have been added. The superposition of many new functions has upgraded this notebook from the previous thin and portable notebook to a high-performance productivity tool.

The function has increased, but the price is acceptable, which is the benefit of Huawei's more mature notebook technology, technological progress and fast iteration. At the press conference, * * * announced four configurations. Compared with the price announced by MWC20 18 to foreign countries, the domestic price is about 2000 yuan cheaper as a whole, and the lowest is only 7988 yuan. It can be said that Huawei MateBook X Pro has won certain competitiveness in pricing in the current highly competitive notebook market.

Recently, we got the top gray version of the new MateBook X Pro. Let's combine several tests to learn more about this notebook.

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Huawei MateBook X Pro screen: amazing!

Huawei MateBook X Pro body: thin and light, needless to say.

Huawei MateBook X Pro performance &; Heat dissipation: no card!

Huawei MateBook X Pro battery life: 8 hours without stress.

Try it for a week and feel it:

Features:

1. 3:2 screen with resolution of 3000*2000. The 3: 2 photos taken by SLR can be completely tiled on the screen with complete details.

Second, the 100% color gamut screen has a high degree of color reproduction accuracy, which is completely sufficient for photographers and designers.

Third, the screen brightness is very high, and there is no pressure for outdoor use.

Fourth, electricity is well managed and can be used for one day.

Fifth, Dolby's panoramic sound effect is very good, and there is a surround sound experience when watching movies.

Six, pure metal fuselage, good workmanship, very textured.

Seven, pre-installed genuine windows 10 system and office20 16 suite, which can be directly used for office.

Eight, cost-effective, comprehensive experience, for this configuration of light and thin, MateBook X Pro domestic price is very affordable.

Nine, the performance is very good, and the frequency is not reduced for a long time.

Regret:

First, although equipped with a touch screen, the rotating shaft can't be turned 180, so from the application level, the significance of the touch screen is weakened.

Second, moving the camera to the keyboard area is an innovation, but at present, the camera angle is lower, which is more suitable for conference video.

Third, the heat dissipation noise is acceptable, but the computer will be a little hot if it runs for a long time and requires a lot of calculations.

Screen: I just want to use the word "amazing"

Judging whether MateBook X Pro is a high-end productivity tool, we can first see some clues from the screen, and the screen is naturally the most prominent highlight of MateBook X Pro.

As a scientific and technological product of the 20 18 "full screen" era, Huawei took the lead in further narrowing the four sides of the notebook screen and moving the camera to the keyboard area, so MateBook X Pro was presented to the world with an ultra-high screen ratio of 9 1%. Compared with XPS series, the originator of "big chin" and narrow frame, Huawei can be called a real "full screen" notebook.

In addition, Huawei also replaced the LTPS low-temperature polysilicon screen in the mobile phone with this notebook. The color gamut of 100%sRGB, the contrast ratio of 1500: 1, the peak brightness of 450 nits, the better effect and lower power consumption all make people marvel at its excellent visual performance and the heart of Huawei's craftsmen.

▲ Covers 100% sRGB color gamut.

Starscream 5 tested the screen of MateBook X Pro and concluded that its color gamut reached 100% sRGB. The results show that this screen can completely cover the sRGB color gamut of our webpage and the mainstream application of SLR photos, and the color reproduction degree is also very good.

Generally speaking, when we put our own photos on Huawei MateBook X Pro, the picture we see is the picture captured in our camera, and there is no deviation, so even photographers and designers can completely retouch the pictures.

In addition, in terms of size, MateBook X Pro is equipped with a 3: 2 display screen of 13.9 inches, which is not small for me to work on the move. Its ultra-high screen ratio can reduce the size of the body, which means that the actual specifications of MateBook X Pro are equivalent to that of an ordinary notebook of 12- 13 inches, which ensures a strong screen.

The 3: 2 scale screen can make photos (also 3:2 scale) 100% flat on the screen without black edges, which brings more editing space to those of us who need post-editing photos. The same is true for browsing the web and typing, with rich upper and lower space and bright vision.

When watching 16:9, there will be a little black border on the screen at 3: 2, which is not very exaggerated and excessive. This is entirely due to the design of the full-screen concept, and the actual look and feel is not worse than that of the notebook computer with 16: 9 non-narrow bezel design.

For the touch screen, I just want to say that there are some chicken ribs. ...

However, Huawei can obviously do better, except that the 180 axis, which is usually equipped for high-end business offices, is not added to the MateBook X Pro, and the screen itself has the 10 touch function, so if the screen axis cannot be rotated, this touch screen may not mean so much to me. After all, I won't control the screen with my hands when I can use the keyboard and mouse.

If you add a 360 flip design to the next generation product, the product can be said to be perfect! In this way, the notebook is not only convenient for many people to watch in business meetings and other scenes, but also can be used as a tablet computer, and its use value will be qualitatively improved.

Body: Needless to say, it is light and thin, and it feels very stable!

Huawei MateBook X Pro notebook adopts Nordic "sexual indifference" simple style design as a whole, and there are no decorative lines except the "chrysanthemum" on the A side and the logo composed of Huawei English letters. Of course, the edge of the notebook is polished by high light, and there will be metal reflections from different angles, but on the whole, I still feel that the notebook is dominated by the "absolutely plain" style.

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Left: Notebook front thickness13.94 mm; Right: the thickness of the back of the notebook is14.67mm.

▲ Bare metal weight1.33kg.

▲ The travel weight with power supply is 1.5 16kg.

In addition, the weight 1.33kg and the thickness 14.6mm are used by adults, and there is no pressure when held by one hand. Bian Xiao takes it to work every day and occasionally goes out hunting. This weight is not a burden to me. If you don't think about the notebook in your bag, you will almost forget its existence.

All four corners of the notebook are designed with rounded corners. The fuselage adopts aluminum alloy CNC process to cut the metal fuselage, and the surface has metal sandblasting treatment, which does not stick to hands and has skin-like touch.

Don't think that being as thin as a piece of paper will be "vulnerable". You can still feel a very stable feel on the MateBook X Pro, because the overall high-grade aluminum alloy material is very hard and will not be deformed when pressed hard. The use of such materials ensures the durability of notebooks in various complex mobile office scenarios.

▲ There is a groove design on the edge of the notebook, which can be opened and closed with one hand.

▲ There are four foot pads at the bottom.

▲ Air inlet & speakers are on both sides of D-plane.

On the C side of the notebook, the keypad is cancelled, and a keyboard with a larger keycap is replaced, which makes it feel better, and the black keycap of the C side aluminum-magnesium alloy is also very harmonious. In terms of feel, the keyboard of Huawei notebook is flexible, but the keystroke is relatively short, and the long-term typing experience is average, not particularly tactile.

▲ Fingerprint identification power key

Security has always been the focus of business, and many notebooks have also added fingerprint readers. Huawei pioneered the ultra-fast fingerprint power key on Huawei MateBook X, which combined fingerprint identification and power key into one. When the power button is pressed, fingerprint information identification and power-on instructions are carried out on the Windows system at the same time, and it is safer and more efficient to directly enter the Windows desktop without entering a password or scanning fingerprints on the login interface.

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Fingerprint recognition is very sensitive. Fingers can recognize fingerprints by lightly touching the power button.

This time, Huawei upgraded the speed fingerprint power button again. It only takes 7.8 seconds to log in to the desktop from the shutdown state and 6.6 seconds to log in to the desktop from the hibernation state, which reduces the cumbersome boot steps and waiting time.

In order to design a full-screen notebook, Huawei has made great efforts, so it has developed a unique design in the world, that is, a hidden camera hidden on the keyboard. The advantage of this camera is that it can prevent hijacking and voyeurism while achieving a larger screen ratio.

However, after my actual measurement, this camera has a slightly lower angle and will illuminate the big chin. However, the general video conference is still very good, at least it is easy to frame the whole person into a high-definition picture.

The large touchpad feels silky and can replace the mouse to some extent.

Interface: There are many kinds of USB-A interfaces, but there are still several.

The interface is equipped with dual Type-C interface +USB3.0 interface+earphone interface, which is the combination of the mainstream Type-A interface and Type-C interface in the future. It is much kinder than MacBook 13, but without the card reader and HDMI interface, it will be a bit inconvenient at present.

However, the Type-C interface supports external docking stations, 4K monitors and even high-performance GTX 1080 graphics cards, and can also charge devices such as mobile phones. "You can do many things in one bite" has also solved many problems.

Performance &; Heat dissipation: the entertainment office is not stuck, and it will be a little hot in extreme cases.

Since we want to regard it as our main productivity tool, performance is naturally crucial. Faster processing speed allows us to complete more tasks in a shorter time without getting stuck in the whole process.

Huawei MateBook X Pro provides a version of SSD hard disk with a maximum memory of i7-8550u+MX150+16g and a maximum memory of 5 12GB, which is exactly the configuration of our notebook.

Master Lu's running score is close to 1.7 million, which is considered to be the highest score of a high-performance notebook at present.

I ran a large 3D game "Resident Evil 7" at leisure to see how high the upper limit of this notebook is.

When we reduced the resolution to 2K level, the number of game frames immediately remained above 60. From a distance, the picture was still very delicate, and the laptop's calorific value was acceptable, and there was no frequency reduction for playing for a long time.

▲ Huawei MateBoox X Pro runs Resident Evil 7 60 frames.

In other words, this kind of high-resolution screen does have some procrastination for the game, but when we reduce the resolution of the game appropriately, there is no pressure to play large 3D games.

CPU:

The CPU of this notebook is eight generations of Core quad-core and eight-thread CPU, and the power consumption 15W TDP is the same as that of the previous generation, but the number of cores is doubled, the third-level cache is upgraded to 8MB, and the comprehensive performance is improved by more than 15%-30%.

According to the test results of professional CPU performance test software CBR 15, the performance of i7 8550U equipped by Huawei reaches 499cb for multi-core and 164cb for single core. The multi-core performance is improved by about 55% compared with the previous generation i7 7500U 322cb.

GPU:

The GeForce MX 150 carried by Huawei adopts 16nm Pascal architecture, and adopts the same GP 108 core as the desktop GT 1030, with similar overall specifications. However, considering the power consumption of the whole machine, Huawei adopted the 8W low-power version of MX 150. In fact, we also conducted a game test just now. There is no pressure to play Resident Evil 7, a large 3D game with slightly lower resolution, and there is no overheating and frequency reduction in the whole process.

The 3DMark fire strike mode runs out of points, and 2382 has reached the expected level of 8Mx 150.

Hard disk:

As for the hard disk, we tested the SSD hard disk of Drive C. In the five tests with the capacity of 1gb each time, the highest reading reached 3 1.20 MB/s, and the writing reached 459MB/s, which is a good quality solid state hard disk.

Besides, a thin notebook with excellent performance needs a good cooling system. Huawei MateBook X Pro is equipped with an intelligent temperature detection and cooling system, which can be set to a more active and active cooling mode when dealing with tasks with a large amount of calculation. At this time, the built-in shark fin fan in the fuselage will work hard to ensure the smooth operation of the computer, and it is usually a more energy-saving passive cooling mode. Overall, the heat dissipation has increased by nearly 20% compared with before, which ensures the stable and smooth operation of the notebook.

Endurance: No stress in any entertainment office for more than 8 hours.

Whether on the high-speed rail, on the plane or outdoors, charging is a small but annoying problem for notebooks. The computer must not stop working, and Huawei MateBook X Pro's long-lasting endurance can do this.

With 50% brightness of the notebook and "better battery" power management configuration, we used the working mode of PCMARK8 (simulating various office software) to test its endurance. The results show that the endurance of the notebook can reach 7 hours and 32 minutes, which is already a very amazing achievement. Before, our test of ordinary business books was usually about 3-4 hours, and it was rare for notebooks to reach the level of 7 hours and 30 minutes.

In fact, PCMARK8 will reserve 20% of the computer's power during the test. If it is completely exhausted, the continuous office life can reach 8-9 hours without pressure, which means that we can properly meet our office needs for one day without charging.

In the actual experience of battery life, two movies were played for 5 hours, and 43% of the power was left after being fully charged. To sum up, if this notebook is used normally, it is no problem to support any office needs for more than 8 hours.

Summary:

The light and sturdy appearance is my first impression of Huawei MateBook X Pro. When I opened this notebook, the full screen with 9 1% screen ratio once again surprised me. If you continue to try, you will find that Huawei MateBook X Pro is the best companion that can continuously inject vitality into our work and life, regardless of performance, sound experience or endurance.