Huawei unveiled its MateBook X Pro, a high-end ultra-slim notebook with a 13.9-inch 3K resolution touchscreen display and a stunning 91% screen-to-body ratio, the best in the industry so far.
The smaller fanless MateBook X unveiled last May was the best Windows laptop of 2017, with a 13-inch 2K display (although not touch-enabled) and an already impressive 88% screen-to-body ratio.
For the size of a MacBook, the MateBook X had the performance of Apple's MacBook Pro, but with a rather poor battery life of 5 to 6 hours at most on a single charge.
The battery capacity - by 38% - which it says should last through 12 hours of video playback and 14 hours of office work.
Huawei also added a fast power adapter that will supply 6 hours of use with only a 30 minutes charge.
Despite being powered by the latest Intel Core i5 and i7 processors (40% faster than the previous generation), and the optional high-performance Nvidia GeForce MX150 graphics chip great for gaming or graphics-intensive applications (Autodesk, Photoshop, Premiere...), the Matebook X Pro is only slightly heavier (2.9 vs 2.3 pounds) and bigger than Huawei's entry-level ultrabook, while being almost as thin at 0.57 inches (14.6 mm), making it one of the lightest and most powerful notebooks on the market.
We also liked that the Chinese telecommunications-equipment maker added a full-size USB-A port, along with two USB-C ports that can be both used for data transmission (Thunderbolt 3) and power. Which was not the case for the smaller MateBook X laptop.
The webcam placement on the keyboard is a major design flaw...
However powerful and beautifully built the MateBook X Pro is, Huawei made a huge design mistake - similar to Dell's with its XPS 13 - in concealing the video camera beneath the F6 key on the keyboard. While most people considered the camera popping up from the keyboard as a clever innovation, the webcam location actually makes it totally useless, either in video conferencing or to record a video selfie, simply because the camera's awkward angle catches the user's chest and chin rather than the face.
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