In our traditional perception, the combination of performance and portability in laptops has always seemed like an unattainable ideal, akin to wanting the best of both worlds. But is the contradiction between portability and performance truly irreconcilable?
On April 11th, Huawei unveiled its latest MateBook X Pro during the Huawei HarmonyOS Spring Communication Conference. Sharing the spotlight alongside the Smart Screen S7, the MateBook X Pro's debut underscores the significance of PCs within Huawei's broader strategic framework. Recently, Huawei outlined its comprehensive strategy for intelligence, aiming to establish a robust computational foundation in China. Within this ambitious vision, PCs play an indispensable role as endpoints of computational power.
The new Huawei MateBook X Pro features a 980g body, an Intel Core i9 Ultra high-performance processor, and an unprecedented 40W performance release without the need for plugging in. This heralds a new era of ultralight high-performance notebooks, addressing the longstanding trade-off between portability and power in the laptop market. It's rightly hailed as the optimal solution for today's demand for "light and powerful" laptops.
Huawei has truly delivered with its lightweight yet powerful notebooks!
Huawei has consistently focused on the PC market, and not long ago, market research firm Canalys released the latest data for the 2023 PC and tablet market in China.
Among the top five manufacturers in terms of shipments, Huawei is the only one to achieve growth against the trend, with a remarkable 11% annual growth rate, while the rest have experienced varying degrees of decline.
According to data from another third-party organization, in the third quarter of 2023, Huawei's share in the ultrabook segment reached 24.3%, and even soared to 37.8% in offline channels.
Huawei's performance in the smart PC market has been robust, with its smart PCs leaping to the forefront of the ultrabook market in the third quarter. Such outstanding achievements in the PC domain demonstrate Huawei's smart PCs are a core component of intelligent office setups, playing a crucial role in Huawei's strategic layout for smart scenarios.
Introducing the high-performance laptop "Huawei MateBook X Pro": A Visible 980g Ultra-light Body
But how did Huawei achieve such a combination of extreme performance and thinness? If based on the "patch and mend" approach of traditional laptop architecture, it would be difficult to overcome the longstanding challenge of integrating lightness and performance. Therefore, Huawei took a different approach by adopting its self-developed Yunfeng architecture to redesign the new Huawei MateBook X Pro, thus breaking through the design limitations of traditional laptops.
Simply put, Huawei's self-developed Yunfeng architecture is a solution designed for lightweight notebooks. It tackles the issue of notebook weight reduction through multidimensional innovations in materials, structure, and other aspects.
Huawei engineers drew inspiration from smartphone modular motherboard and miniaturization technologies to comprehensively redesign the internal layout of the new Huawei MateBook X Pro, creating the industry's most compact three-section motherboard. Compared to the previous generation, the weight of the motherboard has been reduced by 13%, and the internal space occupation has decreased by 8%.
Thanks to the Yunfeng architecture, the new Huawei MateBook X Pro is able to perfectly accommodate the Intel® Core™ i9 Ultra 9 high-performance processor, along with larger fans, a bigger battery, and larger speakers, breaking the stereotype of "thin and light laptops lacking in performance."
Supported by Huawei's self-developed Yunfeng architecture, the new Huawei MateBook X Pro measures only 13.9 millimeters thick and weighs just 980 grams, taking the portability of high-performance notebooks to a whole new level.
The new Huawei MateBook X Pro continues the classic wedge-shaped design, drawing inspiration from the boundary between Earth and space with its innovative "Leap Line" design. For the first time, it employs a new four-axis CNC process on both sides of the product's waistline, enhancing its lightweight appearance. This creates a natural and graceful curve akin to that of the Earth, delivering an unprecedented sense of thinness and sophistication to the laptop.
In terms of color, this notebook offers a choice of three colors imbued with the emotional essence of traditional Eastern culture: Clear Sky Blue, Noble White, and Ink Black. These colors are understated and modest, embodying the essence of simplicity in Eastern aesthetics and reflecting the unique aesthetic taste of the owner.
The new Huawei MateBook X Pro features a lightweight yet high-strength magnesium-aluminum alloy body, presenting a unique matte texture with a microfiber metal process. Moreover, this process makes the notebook's shell surface harder, more scratch-resistant, and more durable. It also boasts excellent anti-fouling capabilities, allowing even the Noble White color option to easily wipe off daily stains.
Powerful Performance, AI Strength, and Outstanding Display: Users No Longer Need to Choose
Today, the demands for laptops are becoming increasingly diverse and situational, requiring a comprehensive user experience that is not only lightweight and portable but also capable of handling high-intensity workloads effortlessly.
The new Huawei MateBook X Pro leads the pack with its powerful performance. Within its ultralight 980g body, it houses the latest generation Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 high-performance processor, featuring Intel's advanced 4th-generation process technology, a 16-core 22-thread design, including 6 performance cores, 8 efficiency cores, and 2 low-power efficiency cores. Equipped with the Arc Brilliant graphics card, the GPU performance has doubled compared to the previous generation. Ultimately, it achieves unprecedented TDP 40W performance without the need for plugging in, with peak performance reaching up to 64W (sustained for 13 seconds), far surpassing the mainstream lightweight laptops' performance levels of 15W-18W. Additionally, there's the newly upgraded Super Turbo intelligent scheduling technology, delivering improved power consumption, higher efficiency, and a smoother user experience.
The new Huawei MateBook X Pro also supports opening the lid to power on and facial recognition. Super Turbo, optimized from the system's core, achieves system startup within 1 second of opening the lid and entering the desktop within 9 seconds. Anytime, anywhere, you can open the laptop and get into work mode without wasting a moment.
Additionally, Super Turbo accelerates optimization for 9 major scenarios users commonly encounter, such as meetings, internet browsing, office work, and video usage. According to statistics, opening a 150-page large PPT only takes 19.2 seconds, a 43.48% improvement. Opening a large Excel file with 1.3 million rows takes only 31.4 seconds, a 42.29% improvement. It dynamically accelerates software based on user usage demands. Compared to the previous generation, in flat creation scenarios, PR 4K video rendering speed increases by 1.69 times, and WPS Meow 4K video editing export speed increases by 2.18 times. In professional programming scenarios, VSCODE compilation speed increases by 1.27 times. For professionals and video editing users, staying ahead and doubling productivity becomes effortless.
The new Huawei MateBook X Pro also supports a maximum combination of 32GB RAM and 2TB storage, ensuring ample space for everyday use without worry.
Additionally, the AI capabilities of the new Huawei MateBook X Pro are notably robust. With the support of the Huawei Pangolin Large Model, it introduces AI summarization for the first time (entering Smart Voice AI Summary - after transcription into text, AI summary can be conducted), enabling us to swiftly extract key information from vast audio data, making content more concise.
The newly launched AI Space serves as a one-stop hub for AI capabilities, offering users personalized AI services. It features top AI models such as Baidu Wenxin Yiyuan, iFLYTEK Xinghuo, and Zhipu Qingyan, providing users with over 100 AI models tailored for various scenarios including office work, learning, creative tasks, and software development. This platform aims to enhance user productivity and efficiency across different domains.
Additionally, Huawei and Wonders Meow Shadow jointly trained. The new Huawei MateBook X Pro is the first laptop to support AI effects using NPU, enabling rapid and precise cutouts and special effects. Export speeds for 720P and 1080P resolution videos have also increased by 30% to 40%. The Huawei MateBook X Pro also supports WPS AI, offering three intelligent features: smart text layout, conversational spreadsheet operations, and mind map to PPT conversion, empowering users for efficient work and creativity.
In addition, the new Huawei MateBook X Pro boasts exceptional screen display quality. It is the industry's first laptop to feature a flexible OLED screen, equipped with Huawei's proprietary display enhancement algorithm, meeting Huawei's immersive display standards. The 14.2-inch screen adopts a high resolution of 3.1K (3120 x 2080), with a high PPI of 264, supporting a 120Hz ultra-high refresh rate and offering a response time of less than 1ms. This results in better dynamic clarity in scrolling web pages, text, and certain gaming scenes, with significantly reduced motion blur.
For professional users, the screen of the new Huawei MateBook X Pro meets their demands as well. Each screen of the new Huawei MateBook X Pro undergoes professional calibration before leaving the factory, resulting in a unique 3D LUT file tailored to the calibration results. It achieves professional-grade color accuracy with ΔE < 1 in Adobe RGB, sRGB, and P3 color spaces. Thanks to storing the 3D LUT calibration file in the BIOS chip rather than the system, even reinstalling the system one day won't affect the calibration results.
It also supports P3 wide color gamut screen mirroring with Huawei smartphones. The screen mirroring window on the laptop side matches the color and detail performance of the smartphone's screen. With consistent color across multiple platforms, whether it's an OLED or LCD screen, or running HarmonyOS or Windows, users can see more unified and accurate colors.
Innovative "black technology" fully addresses past laptop pain points.
In our daily use of laptops, we often encounter problems like network disconnection, difficult-to-use touchpads, and slow charging. The new Huawei MateBook X Pro solves these pain points one by one through a series of innovative "black technologies".
As a leading player in the communication industry, Huawei's mobile phone signals are well-regarded. Now, they've integrated the powerful connectivity of base stations into PC products. The new Huawei MateBook X Pro adopts 3D stereo metamaterial antenna technology, providing a network connection capability of up to 420 meters in open environments. It also supports Wi-Fi 6 network protocol, with 2.4GHz and 5GHz dual frequency bands, and a 2 x 2 MIMO dual antenna design, achieving a faster, more stable internet experience.
Furthermore, the traditional problem of imprecise control and poor experience with laptop touchpads is addressed by the new Huawei MateBook X Pro, which introduces the industry's first electric eddy current pressure touchpad. It utilizes four highly sensitive pressure sensing coils to recognize pressure changes generated by finger presses, resulting in more precise control. It also supports up to eight innovative gestures, including screenshot capture and adjusting brightness and volume, providing great convenience for mobile work and travel.
The new Huawei MateBook X Pro comes equipped with custom-tuned high and low-frequency split 6 speakers, featuring the industry-first "Intelligent Sound Master" technology. This enables superior depth and spatial perception when playing music, delivering an immersive auditory experience, eliminating the embarrassment of lackluster laptop audio output.
The long-standing issue of laptop charging has been addressed with the new Huawei MateBook X Pro featuring dual-core charging patented technology, supporting 140W super-fast Turbo charging. In just 10 minutes of charging, you get 3 hours of office work, a 50% improvement in speed over the previous generation. Additionally, the accompanying 140W charger weighs only 205 grams, making it highly portable. It also supports super-fast charging for Huawei phones, tablets, and other devices, meaning you only need to carry one charger when you're on the go.
In addition, Huawei has unveiled the Huawei Wireless Mouse Starlight Edition alongside the new Huawei MateBook X Pro. This mouse features Starlight wireless communication technology, coupled with adaptive frequency hopping algorithms, boosting its anti-interference capabilities by four times compared to the previous generation of Huawei wireless mice, ensuring stability even in complex environments. In terms of appearance, the Huawei Wireless Mouse Starlight Edition is crafted with a velvet-like material, offering a silky smooth touch, akin to satin, in two color options: ink black and clear blue, perfectly complementing the new Huawei MateBook X Pro's debut, creating a harmonious match with the device!
The new Huawei MateBook X Pro starts at ¥11,199. Here's the breakdown: Ultra 7 16GB/1TB version is priced at ¥11,199, Ultra 7 32GB/1TB version at ¥12,499, and Ultra 9 32GB/2TB version at ¥14,999. Pre-orders began on April 11th at 16:08, with full sales starting on April 18th at 10:08 on Huawei's official platforms including Huawei Mall, authorized e-commerce sites, Huawei Experience Stores, and authorized retail platforms. For HUAWEI Care+, the three-year plan is discounted to ¥1,143 (recommended retail price: ¥1,299). Note: HUAWEI Care+ promotion is valid from April 11, 2024, to July 18, 2024. Additionally, the Huawei Wireless Mouse Star Flash edition is priced at ¥229, with pre-orders starting on April 11th at 16:08 and sales on April 18th at 10:08 on Huawei Mall and select authorized e-commerce platforms.
