Okay so I’m writing the script for this video on a mate book X Pro review device on the train and a man sits down across from me and it gets to work on his Apple MacBook Pro glancing over I see what other reviewers have been talking about the similarities between the Huawei product and the Apple one are pronounced but you know what it gets so much right that I’ve just stopped caring how similar these two look and if you can get over the one or two downsides that pop up you’ll probably feel the same way I’m mr. rubble and this is the mate book X Pro review if you’ve seen any of Huawei smartphones from the past year like to make 10 Pro or the new p20 you’ll know the company has really stepped it up in the design department recently well Apple comparisons aside the MacBook X pro is no exception beveled edges set off the casing sides trackpad borders and the fingerprint sensor a sensor fast enough to boot you into Windows 10 from standby in under 8 seconds that’s Windows signature Edition with very little bloatware and it comes to your eyes via a gorgeous thirteen point nine inch display this is one of the best features of the machine the 3:2 aspect ratio gives it a larger canvas than sixteen by nine laptops and it packs a 91% screen to body ratio the Dell XPS 13 that started the trend of ultra thin bezels only gets up to about 81% the display offers solid saturation plenty of backlighting once you’ve disabled the auto brightness and it’s now touch sensitive if that’s not your thing the large trackpad beneath the spacebar has excellent precision and click feel that’s a lot of improvements already over what you get from the MacBook and here’s another one huawei’s keyboard proves you don’t need to resort to rigid butterfly switches to build a thin laptop the combination of 1.2 millimeter travel with quiet switches and maybe a more supple paint on the keys I can’t tell makes this a soft keyboard in all the right ways if I had to boil the typing experience down to one word I’d call it pillowy and the fact that it’s also splash proof is an excellent bonus smack in the middle of the top row of that keyboard you’ll find this pcs best and worst feature best because it’s such a cool way to hide a webcam it lets you stow the camera when you don’t want to be seen without resorting to tape or stickers and it also doesn’t take up valuable space on the bezel worst because way down there and the keyboard is just a terrible angle to shoot a
person from and on top of that it’s a pretty bad sensor to maxing out at just one megapixel so at the end of the day the webcam is probably a net negative despite its innovative placement someone once said if you don’t know me by now you will never ever ever ever ever know me so you probably understand that I score mobility above most things when it comes to tech the mate book X pro dominates at balancing portability and performance when I say performance I don’t just mean things like read and write speeds I’ll point you to Windows central review for benchmarks like those rather I mean the fundamentals of delivering a solid PC experience in a bag friendly package that package is less than 15 millimeters thick and it weighs under three pounds but it comes in configurations that include both an 8th gen Core i7 processor with discrete graphics and a large 57 watt hour battery these days 8 hours of continuous use is my benchmark for solid endurance on a laptop and this machine consistently delivered on that under a light to moderate workload it by the way if you don’t want to miss it when I review a laptop that promises much more battery life subscribe to the mr.Mobile on youtube right now I don’t mean to say the mate book doesn’t wheeze a little when you stretch it fire up a game like world of warships and you’ll get the fans spinning loud enough to make you take notice the thing is you won’t hear them over the sound system which has more depth base and dimension than anything I’ve tested in a while quick note here that game takes performance mode to run well which will kill your battery a lot quicker than that light to moderate load I mentioned earlier and which lets me segue semi smoothly into a brief note on the charger it’s not the bulky transformer on a rope that so many laptops make you deal with instead it’s a compact wall wart that puts out 65 watts over USB C that means you can charge the laptop very quickly and if your phone also has a seaport you can leave its charger at home on a trip on the computer there’s a Thunderbolt 3 compatible port as well next to the headphone jack a USB a port on the other side and in the US ‘we will bundle a mate dok2 for further expansion the only thing that isn’t here is an SD card slot it which is kind of a bummer before we come to the conclusion let’s spend a minute on the minutia pros the mate book X Pro passes the one-handed opening test it comes with huawei share
for high-speed wireless transfers if you have a fall way phone and if you do use that camera for video conferencing or talking to Cortana cons the hard drive is weirdly partitioned into system and storage drives which is not necessary on a Windows 10 machine and the elephant in the room should US consumers consider buying it given all the recent concerns about Huawei and national security well I spend an afternoon reading articles on that and I came away with this conclusion if I worked for the US government buying a Huawei machine to do state business on would indeed give me pause but since I’m not I’m not losing any sleep over privacy concerns relating to Huawei at least not any more than I’m already losing over how much I’m sharing with my own government if your concerns run deeper you’ll want to take your dollars elsewhere how many dollars you’ll fork over for this machine in the United States is still TBA as is exactly where you’ll be able to buy it once it goes on sale but I’ve heard that it’ll be priced more competitively than current import costs would suggest time will tell whether that pans out or not but if what you want is macbook hardware running Windows 10 and you don’t mind sacrificing selfie quality for some innovative engineering the maid book X Pro is a fantastic contender folks I’m giving away three LGV 30s over on the Instagram channel so go find me over there at the mr.Mobile or at the link in the description but hurry the contest ends Monday April 9th good luck and speaking of phones well this laptop isn’t the last Huawei product you’ll see on my channel this season stay tuned for the p20 pro review as i put that monster triple camera phone through its paces until next time thanks for watching and stay mobile my friends you
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