Huawei Announces MateBook X Pro 2022 Flagship Laptop

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The HUAWEI MateBook X Pro is the company's latest flagship laptop. It is a comprehensive improvement over its predecessor in terms of aesthetic design, innovative technologies, and smart experiences. In a Super Device system, it connects and collaborates with other Huawei devices for a fresh smart office experience.

It comes equipped with the best touch display that Huawei has ever used on a laptop. The 14.2-inch Real Colour FullView Display features 3.1K resolution, 92.5% ultra-high screen-to-body ratio, and the mean ∆ E < 1 (typical value) in P3 and sRGB dual color gamut. As the world's first product certified by TÜV Rheinland for pro-level dual color gamut color accuracy, it delivers more true-to-life colors and it's unique wedge-shaped body weighs as little as 1.38 kg, merging a minimalist aesthetic with a comfortable grip.





The HUAWEI MateBook X Pro comes with a HUAWEI Sound six-speaker system for a revolutionary immersive spatial sound experience. The Free Touch Gesture feature allows users to take screen shots, start screen recording, and adjust screen brightness and playback volume with simple gestures.

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[Valantar]

If anyone wonders why they're not mentioning specs at all, it's because this is built on Intel 11th gen. Not bad hardware, just very late to the game and already in the process of being significantly overtaken by 12th gen and Ryzen 6000.

 

[Chrispy_]

I've always been tempted by the MateBook range, but Hauwei only make ANSI keyboards for these things which is pretty annoying for the ~40% of the global population who are used to ISO layout.

It's not a complete dealbreaker but it's a constant annoyance that means I'll always choose the laptop with the ISO keyboard unless the ANSI laptop is too good to turn down.

 

[zlobby]

Nnnnnnope!

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

14.2 inch screen is more like netbook size rather than laptop.

unless the ANSI laptop is too good to turn down.

I'd rather have more trust in them not data farming and spying.

(tinhat)
Too good to turn down is a myth created so we can tell ourselves its ok to buy without knowing what secrets lie within.
(/tinhat)

 

[Solaris17]

I own the 2018 matebook x pro and honestly I love it. No complaints at all with the built quality or performance. If I ever find the need to upgrade I would probably get another one. As long as it stayed at 13.9 I dont really want it any bigger personally.

 

[Chrispy_]

I'd rather have more trust in them not data farming and spying.

Turns out Acer, Lenovo, Asus, and plenty of others all openly datafarm and spy on you too.

They're all shady AF and Microsoft are by far the worst so unless you plan to run Linux on it, the Huawei spying is the least of the privacy concerns.

 

[Valantar]

14.2 inch screen is more like netbook size rather than laptop.

Lolwut? 14.2" 3:2 is wider than 13.3" 16:9 and taller than 15.6" 16:9. In terms of area it's 600cm², compared to 488 for a 13.3" display or 670 for a 15.6" display. This is not a small laptop display. Slightly smaller than average (as the median laptop still likely has a 15.6" display), sure, but by about 10.5% (89.65% of the larger screens area, to be precise). That's not a lot.

For reference, netbooks had 7-11" 16:9 displays, with most being 10.1" - 42% of the area of a 15.6" display. In other words, this has more than twice the screen size of a netbook.

 

[Chrispy_]

Lolwut? 14.2" 3:2 is wider than 13.3" 16:9 and taller than 15.6" 16:9. In terms of area it's 600cm², compared to 488 for a 13.3" display or 670 for a 15.6" display. This is not a small laptop display. Slightly smaller than average (as the median laptop still likely has a 15.6" display), sure, but by about 10.5% (89.65% of the larger screens area, to be precise). That's not a lot.

For reference, netbooks had 7-11" 16:9 displays, with most being 10.1" - 42% of the area of a 15.6" display. In other words, this has more than twice the screen size of a netbook.

I thought 14" laptops were the default size these days and outside of a gaming laptop that needs the larger chassis to cover cooling for a dGPU most people were buying 13.3 or 14" models.

Thin & light is by far the most popular market segment for laptops by sales volume; Most vendors offer their widest selection of models covering the widest range of pricing from ultrabudget to flagship in 14";

The same cannot be said for 15.6" and above, and although it's not hard to find a 15.6" thin & light, not all manufacturers even offer one.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Turns out Acer, Lenovo, Asus, and plenty of others all openly datafarm and spy on you too.

They're all shady AF and Microsoft are by far the worst so unless you plan to run Linux on it, the Huawei spying is the least of the privacy concerns.

That is a conscious choice to let them do that. I get some people need laptops for important stuff (work, etc.), you might even justify the convenience of them. I just dont see that kind of cost as part of a too good to turn down opportunity.

Lolwut? 14.2" 3:2 is wider than 13.3" 16:9 and taller than 15.6" 16:9. In terms of area it's 600cm², compared to 488 for a 13.3" display or 670 for a 15.6" display. This is not a small laptop display. Slightly smaller than average (as the median laptop still likely has a 15.6" display), sure, but by about 10.5% (89.65% of the larger screens area, to be precise). That's not a lot.

For reference, netbooks had 7-11" 16:9 displays, with most being 10.1" - 42% of the area of a 15.6" display. In other words, this has more than twice the screen size of a netbook.

when you put it that way... silly me. I didnt think laptops smaller than 15..6 were still made.

 

[Valantar]

I thought 14" laptops were the default size these days and outside of a gaming laptop that needs the larger chassis to cover cooling for a dGPU most people were buying 13.3 or 14" models.

Thin & light is by far the most popular market segment for laptops by sales volume; Most vendors offer their widest selection of models covering the widest range of pricing from ultrabudget to flagship in 14";

The same cannot be said for 15.6" and above, and although it's not hard to find a 15.6" thin & light, not all manufacturers even offer one.

13.3" and the like have been increasingly edging in on the 15.6" market, but at least last I saw any numbers on this that size was still in the lead - likely due to massive business purchases where portability isn't really something they care about, as well as the ultra-budget ranges. But yeah, for most users thin-and-lights are where it's at. I would be surprised if 14" has supplanted 13.3" though given that it essentially didn't exist outside of business laptops half a decade ago - if so, that would definitely make me happy, as that's IMO the ideal balance of screen size and device size/weight. Thankfully we're seeing a proliferation of taller-than-16:9 aspect ratios leading to a matching proliferation of screen sizes. I'm really looking forward to a future of 120Hz 3:2 thin-and-lights with decently powerful APUs inside

when you put it that way... silly me. I didnt think laptops smaller than 15..6 were still made.

Wow, that is about as opposite of reality as you could get. It's the larger-than-15.6" crowd that's dying out (and has been for a decade). Do you live in Bizarro World?

 

[Chrispy_]

I don't have any sales figures but during the first month of the pandemic it was extremely hard to buy 13-14" models and there were long lead times from the two vendors I deal with directly (Dell, Lenovo) meaning that every model was sold before it was even made. The 15.6" models were continuously available, often with discounts, both direct from manufacturer and at usual consumer/business retailers.

It could also have been that there were huge inventories of 15.6" models that hadn't run dry, so correlation does not equal causation etc.

 

[Sir Alex Ice]

Build quality is excellent and the hardware used is mostly top notch. If only they had it made using Ryzen 6000 or Intel 12th gen CPUs, then it would have been a contender.

But as it is using years old CPU, it's got no chance to convince the tech savvy user.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

Wow, that is about as opposite of reality as you could get. It's the larger-than-15.6" crowd that's dying out (and has been for a decade). Do you live in Bizarro World?

Well, no, but... I dont see the same data as you, trends truly are speculative as you can see in my reply.

As for my Bizarro World... Leave my Magic 8-ball out of this!

 

[Valantar]

I don't have any sales figures but during the first month of the pandemic it was extremely hard to buy 13-14" models and there were long lead times from the two vendors I deal with directly (Dell, Lenovo) meaning that every model was sold before it was even made. The 15.6" models were continuously available, often with discounts, both direct from manufacturer and at usual consumer/business retailers.

It could also have been that there were huge inventories of 15.6" models that hadn't run dry, so correlation does not equal causation etc.

I don't think I've seen any specific figures since the pandemic started either, but If I were to guess I'd say the latter was likely the case, plus that most people buying laptops then were likely relatively well off (at least as much as you tend to be with an office job in the Western world), and probably also wanted something nice and small that they could tuck away or bring with them after the pandemic, leading them to prefer smaller laptops. Of course monitor sales also started taking off soon after, demonstrating the weakness of these - or any laptop, really, but particularly the smaller ones.

Well, no, but... I dont see the same data as you, trends truly are speculative as you can see in my reply.

Oh, absolutely, and we all have our own perspective on things that is never perfect, no matter how much we would like it to be. Mine is always right though