Review laptop Huawei MateBook X Pro

Despite the wide variety of laptops presented on the shelves of electronic equipment stores and online markets, choosing a truly powerful and productive device is not easy. If you want to buy a quality device, the first thought that comes to mind is Apple.

However, laptops of this brand are not equipped with licensed Windows, which domestic users are so accustomed to. To the delight of the domestic buyer, there are young “players” in the electronics market who are gaining popularity due to the presentation of quality products. One of them is the Huawei brand, which introduced the MateBook X Pro portable personal computer.

About the brand

Currently, there are many brands on the electronic goods market that are well known to the consumer. However, few know the details about the path of their ascent to the top of fame and recognition of customers.Huawei is not familiar to many users. The Republic of China, where the company began its existence, for a long time did not reveal the secrets of either the company itself or its technologies. Before the appearance of the first touchscreen phones on the market, only a few design specialists had heard a lot about this brand.

Today it is one of the largest organizations in China engaged in the production and transmission of television programs. It is based on individual developments, ideas and research. The brand is one of the most influential in the world.

From the first days of its existence, the company's activity was aimed at reselling devices for switching subscriber connecting and long-distance telephone lines. The founder of the company, engineer Zhengfei, could not produce and sell his own products, since he did not have any money at that time. And to create their own devices, a considerable investment was required. However, the founding engineer did not give up and after a couple of years, having saved up money, he expanded and began to increase his business.

The proceeds received from the resale of switching devices, the founder invested in his own research and development. A year later, it was decided to manufacture and sell their own communication devices. The company stopped reselling other people's products, and began to sell equipment made independently. And a few years later, the manufacturer brand had a research center, which Zhengfei had always dreamed of. Even the most eminent brands cannot boast of such success in such a short time of existence.

The company's aspiration throughout its activity has been the development of the industry.The management of the company supports any cooperation and joint achievement of success. Thanks to close work with many partners in the research and development of innovative products, the company increases the value of information technology, creates a successful system of mutually beneficial cooperation. Today, Huawei is actively involved in the work of more than 350 companies united to maintain and develop open source software. The company's specialists have made more than forty thousand proposals for standardization, which contribute to closer and more fruitful cooperation in this industry.

Together with its partners, the company is currently working on the continuous development of the industry, as well as such innovations as:

• distributed data processing technologies, in which computer resources and capacities are provided to the user as an Internet service;
• data transmission networks, in which the control level is separated from the data transmission device and implemented in software;
• network architecture concepts suggesting the use of network virtualization technologies with 5G functionality.

Throughout the company's activities, central offices, research centers and factories have appeared in more than 150 countries of the world. To date, the staff of the manufacturer has about 175,000 people, of which more than 45,000 people work at the company's head office in Shenzhen. Half of the company's staff are development engineers who are engaged in research activities.

In the fifteen leading countries of the world, the Huawei brand has huge research and development centers.And the main financial investments of the company are aimed at the development of technologies related to telecommunications - communication at a distance through the worldwide Internet. The main activities of the company today are:

• design and construction of complexes of technical means of telecommunications and facilities intended for routing;
• global communication services, which include high-speed Internet service, as well as consulting for both individual users and huge corporations;
• creation and promotion of mobile gadgets under its own brand. At the moment, touch phones are the key products of the company. In addition, the range of devices also includes: wireless modem modules and routers, devices for telecommunications, tablets, personal and stationary electronic computers.

• effective device design;
• practical covering of devices;
• high-quality displays of smartphones, tablets and computers.

• minor flaws in the device interface.

Description and characteristics of MateBook X Pro

A young company from the Middle Kingdom, unlike its compatriot competitors who promise to release products no worse than Apple, kept its word. And at the end of 2017, it released a full-fledged portable computer MateBook X Pro, which surpassed similar devices from the most famous brands in performance.

Screen

In the innovative novelty from Huawei, the display is the most impressive. In this device, not only the side frames are made as thin as possible, but also the upper and lower ones.Looking at the device, it visually gives the impression that the upper part of the gadget consists of one monitor and nothing else.

The designers equipped the laptop with a 13-inch and 9-inch low-temperature polycrystalline silicon screen. Thanks to this technology, the pixel density of the display is increased, and the added bonus is reduced power consumption. The ratio of the side of the frame to the height is 3 to 2, which emphasizes the business style of the device. Despite the fact that the video on such a monitor will have wide dark stripes, all other tasks on the laptop will be very convenient.

Being engaged in work with the documentation, programs or viewing of content, much more information will fit on this monitor. And you will have to scroll the page much less often. The display of the device itself is touch-sensitive and glossy. The quality of the display is at a very high level: the picture is juicy and rich. And the manufacturer himself claims a 100% coverage of the color spectrum. At the same time, the picture does not look faded even on the street. The brightness of the LED backlight is enough even to work in the darkest room.

Almost one hundred percent “frameless” of the device is very impressive - the monitor occupies 92 percent of the entire lid area. This option appeared in the laptop due to the fact that the designers hid the webcam right in the keyboard. The module is integrated between the f6 and f7 buttons with a separate key. When it is pressed, it jumps out, and when used, a white indicator lights up on the button.

Memory and processor

The device platform is based on the eighth generation Intel Core microarchitecture.High performance desktop and laptop chips built for gamers, streaming and recording. In addition to the integrated Graphics 620 video adapter with workable unified processors, the device received a video card on a separate board.

The NVIDIA GeForce MX150 card features a 64-bit bus, Pascal architecture with two gigabytes of memory. It shows itself well in modern shooters, successfully competing with other video cards.

It has 8 gigabytes of RAM of the Low Power DDR modification with the option to reduce the level of power consumption. Additional savings come from longer refresh times at low temperatures. In synthetic tests and real tasks, the device shows good results thanks to the productive changing graphics.

autonomy

In the manufacturer's application, it is indicated that the device can work 11-12.5 hours on a single charge. However, in practice, such an application is significantly overestimated. When viewing content or visiting social networks, the device will work without recharging up to 9-10 hours, during active games - 3-4. At the same time, taking the device with you when traveling by plane or train, you can be sure that its autonomy is enough for a six to seven hour trip with not very active work and a display brightness of 40% -45%.

Wireless interfaces and sound

The device is equipped with a complete set of wireless connection points and conductors for data transfer and input: a Bluetooth 4 module and a Wi-Fi distributor. The laptop has its own program from the manufacturer - Tencent PC Manager. The antivirus program has real-time cloud and local protection, updates drivers, firmware and the entire system.Quickly responds to new types of threats and neutralizes them.

If you have a smartphone from the brand of the same name, using a special program, you can quickly connect to a laptop through an access point, exchange files and information.

As for a laptop with a small screen size, the novelty from Huawei has a large margin of volume. The sound quality at the beginning of listening seems normal, but after a couple of minutes, cinematic wide sound is heard coming from four speakers. At the same time, the proportion of low and high frequencies does not change depending on the volume.

Touchpad and keyboard

In the spirit of modern innovation, the device's keyboard slides down when lightly pressed. However, the keys are large. The buttons have a distinct response. At the same time, if the user has not encountered such a move before, he will need to get used to the keyboard for some time.

Thanks to the increased dimensions of the keys, unlike the buttons on standard laptops, these keys are very convenient and practical to use. The only drawback of the keyboard is the lack of Print Screen, Insert, Page Up. "Home" and "End" are available only through Fn. The input device is equipped with a white LED backlight with two brightness modes, which gently and evenly illuminate the buttons in the dark.

The surface of the touch panel of the device occupies a large area on the device, has the function of fingerprint scanning. Using the panel is very convenient, it allows you to use different variations of finger gestures in Windows.

Options

New from Huawei MateBook X Pro has the following specifications:

Reviews

According to user reviews, the novelty ultrabook from Huawei turned out to be just great: a stunning screen, high performance, a fingerprint scanner and high-quality assembly. The only drawback, according to users, is the simplification of the keyboard and the lack of a card reader. However, compared to the quality of the device, these are just trifles that you quickly get used to. Average price: from 105,000 rubles.

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• quality assembly;
• stylish design;
• ergonomic keyboard and touchpad;
• high performance;
• fingerprint scanner.

• lack of a card reader;
• high price.

Of course, you can buy a device with similar technical parameters and cheaper. However, the user who works on the device at least once will never want another.