There are three main promoting elements in the case of laptops: Specifications, Price, and Style. It is exceedingly uncommon to have a laptop computer hit all three, and if usually takes a flagship machine to attain excessive marks on all three. The first two, specs and value, usually go hand in hand, however one side that usually will get ignored within the mid-range is the aspect of Style.
The Honor Magicbook 14 pocket book, which is the topic of this overview, scores remarkably excessive marks for fashion. Honor, and its guardian firm Huawei, are primarily within the smartphone enterprise in the case of client merchandise, however over the previous couple of years, they’ve each made efforts to enter the pocket book market. With that they carry the sense of favor that has ruled their smartphone designs to turn out to be the second largest vendor on this planet. Regardless of what could also be occurring on a political stage, Smartphones from Huawei and Honor are very effectively acquired for his or her capability to seize the attention in a manner that different gadgets don’t, and it’s this fashion that Honor brings to its new Magicbook line.
This covers not solely the polished steel chassis, the easy-to-use keyboard and trackpad, the thin-bezel show, however the edges of our area gray Magicbook are lined with a stellar azure blue like I’ve by no means actually seen on a pocket book earlier than. It is a marque which brings to thoughts the HP Spectre notebooks in black and gold – besides the place these gadgets are north of $1500 apiece, the Honor Magicbook is nearer $550 (at the moment £550 within the UK together with gross sales tax). The Magicbook is an ultrathin machine however retains prices down by not going fully space-age in its materials alternative. The 14-inch kind issue and the burden at nearly precisely three lbs makes for a modern light-weight journey machine.
Under the hood is an AMD design, with Honor selecting the Picasso-based Ryzen 5 3500U quad-core processor in cTDP down mode. I can predict that the primary remark from quite a lot of our technical customers goes to be that this processor is the earlier technology, based mostly on AMD’s Zen+ design, whereas the corporate has not too long ago launched Renoir-based Zen2 into its portfolio for these kinds of gadgets. Given that that is Honor’s first pocket book into the worldwide market, and the way the timeframe lined up, the corporate went down the safer route to start with, with a view to study the AMD platform, and hopefully provide a Renoir-based design sooner or later.
For specs, the Honor Magicbook 14 has a 14-inch 1920×1080 LCD show, with ours peaking in brightness round 240 nits and whereas the preliminary calibration was not nice, we did get a very nice calibration profile with our tools. The show has a ~5mm bezel across the edge, harking back to different firm’s ‘Infinity’ like shows. In order to allow a skinny bezel on the prime, the webcam has been moved to into the keyboard, much like the Huawei Matebook notebooks. The show isn’t touchscreen, however it might rotate again to a 178-degree horizontal mode.
In our unit now we have the Ryzen 5 3500U processor, which as I discussed is definitely at a barely decrease energy setting than the 15 W normal, prone to steadiness efficiency and battery life (extra on these later). There are Ryzen 7 3700U fashions, nevertheless we perceive that these are for China solely. This system has eight GB of DDR4-2400 in twin channel mode, and storage choices are 256 GB for the Ryzen 5 and 512 GB for the Ryzen 7. The storage drives are literally very good, with Samsung NVMe models contained in the system – there’s no mechanical spinning rust right here.
The battery capability is 56 Wh, which Honor charges for 9-10 hours in video/net/workplace sort workloads at 150 nits (we obtained 7h at 200 nits in our net check). The battery helps 65 W quick charging with any appropriate Huawei or…
