Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Huawei Windows MacBook Pro”.
Mmm, so this is my very first time, looking at a laptop from Huawei they’re, making some pretty compelling stuff based on the videos and pictures and reviews and things that I’ve seen on their products in the laptop space. Now this stuff, it came out long before the issues, the problems, the Huawei band and so forth, and at that time many people that got a chance to get their hands on these products. Mate book X and, of course, Pro is in front of me here. This is the latest one now they’ve put them at the very top of the of the Windows laptop list. Now I dunno, based on looking at photos that this thing is heavily inspired by the MacBook.
Can you really tell other companies not to be inspired not to take some of those elements and possibly improve them? You can’t really do that, but you just hope that it’s not a one-to-one copy. You hope that you have some uniqueness to it. This spec that I have in front of me. I 78550 you MX 150 GPU 16 gigs of ram 512 gig SSD.
What’S funny about this laptop, and I talked about this on the loo later show downstairs this thing popped on and off of the Microsoft Store. As the huawei News stuff was breaking, it’s been a controversial topic. You just have the text now which to me I kind of prefer it’s a really simple. Look.
You can see the space grey anything space grey is okay with me. Even if some people gon na say it’s copying on the bottom, you can see we have the NVIDIA GeForce sticker. There you’re not used to getting any degree of GeForce level graphics and something this thin and light like this thing is crazy.
Slim, as you can probably tell to type-c connectors over here, one of them is labeled as power, the other as Thunderbolt. You get a USB type, a port which is frequently bump into things and have that versatility is useful. So will what is the weight of this thing? 2.9 pounds? So it’s actually a bit lighter than a MacBook Air.
So this is where things get very MacBook ish. As you can probably tell the keyboard, it’s looking almost identical, though I’m sure there’s a bit more travel here, because it’s not using those controversial, butterfly key switches similar to what Apple has been doing, although they might change on the next-generation appear wise. It’S very reminiscent the trackpad is huge, which is a good thing.
It’S got a glass touch to it. It’S also got this Huawei share thing over here, which allows you to tap a huawei device and just instantly share files. Also, the power switch up here is a fingerprint reader. At the same time, a pretty tiny little power, brick type-c connector on it ooh do you have the password for it. Well all right, so we’re back.
I think my hat might have changed. We took a little time because there’s actually this is a review unit of this laptop and there’s a password on it and it was like what are we gon na do and will he do he got to the bottom of it so that he set it up. We’Re ready to go now. Okay, as you can tell glossy finish now, I’m sure probably open up like a white background, so you can see.
Look how slim that top bezel is that’s really wild. You have no front-facing camera. The camera is now down here in the keyboard and it’s identified by this little camera icon and when you click it, it pops up like that and now it’s looking at you Jack. Can you see that right there boom? That’S a camera. The criticism, it kind of looks up your nose. It’S looking up your nose and it’s also just terrible quality.
Maybe if I take the actual photo, it will help. No, no! So it’s a terrible quality camera. I mean they fit it into a key cap. How important is this like how big of a deal is jack right there look at you, you, crazy maniac Jack, where there yeah there wait there.
You I’m rarely satisfied with a video conferencing quality experience on one of these laptops, even when they have the camera. In the right place, so for me it’s not a deal breaker. I can look past it, but it is worth noting on the privacy side, I think some people might like the fact jack. You might like the fact. You’Ll put the camera away, the quick ooh.
This isn’t this: is this one’s okay, quick brown fox? These are big key caps, it’s very MacBook esque, but there’s a little bit more travel. Obviously, there’s no butterfly key switch situation going on jumps over the late now. I think part of the reason I might be so comfy here is just because of how much time I spent on macbook keyboard.
For me, the real story of this laptop is actually the display. I have to say this is obviously ahead of what Apple’s doing and on Apple’s latest stuff, even though you’re spending between 1,000 and 2,000 dollars, you still can’t get something with this type of screen to body ratio. That is just a crazy slim bezel. Now, obviously, the chin on the bottom is a bit bigger down there. As you can see, your eyeline is constantly along the top, and when you eliminate that bezel from the top, it’s just it’s a very pleasing thing to see much the same way. It was when you started to see it pop up in smartphones. Maybe I could get a quick a be against your MacBook will? Would you really would you mind? Can we just? Is it a bit? Oh interesting, yours is Space Gray right. Yes, please we doing drinking a milkshake over here. What’S so dirty what you doing to it, this Space Gray is more blueish. It kind of looks more like raw, a raw metal. You can actually get a sense when they’re side-by-side for how crazy low profile the butterflies it is yeah. It’S like there’s, really no key trap, but very substantial.
No, it’s a heavy click. This one is gon na give you a more traditional feel if you’ve never felt the butterfly key switch. It’S all noise, no travel exactly, but like a serious clack do it. I like the fact that they’re both really solid once you press down on this one yeah has a 91 % bar. You could scream great.
You know, I mean it looks fat by comparison. Now. Is this how big of a deal is this look if you use this other laptop over here on it on the daily you stop noticing effect, then you got this big forehead on it. Now again, you probably want to compare this to the MacBook Air.
Actually we haven’t met. What am i doing? This is a more one-to-one. Would you look at that? Hey look. They look. So when you, when you stick these two together, it’s even more obvious where the inspiration came like we got. We got to just be honest about it. Yep no! Is this just a MacBook for people who want to use windows the windows back book.
I think the screen really makes a difference like the screen to body ratio. Like that’s enough of you get that format. That’S the thing Willie do and it’s great where they do, and you have to believe that when Apple goes to their next version at least some version in the future, they’re gon na have to approach a more aggressive screen to body ratio as well. Now you were probably ought to give up the front-facing camera and put it somewhere else. Maybe yeah, maybe or I’ve noticed I think, there’s a new Dell laptop where they had a crazy slim bezel and were able to fit it or that Lenovo s 940. From a recent video in which they just kind of like bumped up the bezel only in the center and then that little bump up acted as the lift point mmm for the display, can I just say something about this: you go to lift and it you know It kind of it does work one handy, but the thing slides around a little bit. You see that is it because there’s rubber grips, you see that right there. This is the type of thing Johnny I’ve used to do all day, long yeah.
You would obsess over this, so I’ve been hearing a lot about this. This Apple carb – and I mean I remember when it was announced it was already like it was a hot topic cuz. I wouldn’t listen. This loud type of private private chat, company, unusual type of product for Apple or really anybody in the space that were used to covering not remember you in the financial business where the voice was pretty clear or you guys have been a case. So essentially, they put out a flashy titanium credit card. We’Ve said it before, like the Mac MacBook speakers are typically better than what we’re gon na test here on a PC side, I feel like this is kind of in-between is one of the better PC speakers. I’Ve heard on a laptop it’s better than a lot of thin and light PC laptops that we’ve tested there is some low-end. I think, you’ll be satisfied with it, particularly when you pair it with this.
With this screen, could it be brighter? It could be how many nits are we dealing with 450 450 nits, and it’s weird that I am feeling that way. But I’ve been looking at 500 nits. Well, the directional keys over here you don’t like the layout, hey, it’s tight in there yeah the up/down buttons.
They need to rework that I agree. The trackpad is very nice. It might be the nicest Windows traffic this track. That definitely beats my Lenovo trackpad that I’m currently using so for those of you that haven’t been following the channel and my my laptop journey, I was on Mac books forever. I left to try out Windows laptops.
I’Ve been loving life on a number of different laptops daily driving. I was a bit upset with the keyboards on those units. I had multiple units failed in the studio here, a high percentage cause like we actually had a lot of them working here at one point, and I use the MacBook for like a I don’t know a decade even before that I used power books. I had a original MacBook polycarbonate I’ve been in this okay.
I’Ve been at this yeah, I know so. I moved on. I, like the open, end, an aspect open-ended nature of the window side and the idea that I could really try out a bunch of different laptops and select one. That was right for me with the specs, as opposed to just accepting whatever Apple was giving me or dealing with my terrible et on the MacBook Air.
For example, I was the sticky E yeah. We got ta get that repaired, the stick II. This thing is taking aim at the MacBook Air. It’S just it’s attempting. I think, there’s no question. This thing wants to be the MacBook Air of Windows laptops.
I think they’ve achieved it, the stuff you’re looking for. Is there it’s a pretty package, but you’ve got to be. If you go this direction, you got to be ok with people.
Saying hey, that’s a that’s yeah! It’S slightly off! It’S not a Macbook! No, but also you have to be. You have to be okay with people saying that’s, obviously inspired yeah by a Mac bug, so I think a lot of windows buyers really need to be looking at this thing to be honest, but you do have to take out the part in which there’s, like a General apprehension regarding the Huawei brand right now you’ve got to put that piece in because that’s a valid thing for people. This thing was on the Microsoft site.
Then it was not on Microsoft, Store and went up and went down. Then it was what’s the future, whereas the updates, and so that that’s a real thing, if you’re paying two grand mm-, they have to consider there’s a real thing to think about all this year by few. Oh, is this your show? I was just gon na ask that, would you use this? No, absolutely not no mm-! No, because I’m away now, I’m away from this elegant styling, you see, I’m not. I moved away from the elegant thing, yeah you’re more, like utility.
I, like the tool nature of it, yeah the unit that I’m using right now, which is the x1 yoga from Lenovo. When I look at it as a tool, it’s a better tool for me than this. It mm-hm and the reason is versatility of ports. I can flip it all the way back around if I so choose to write it. I don’t do that, for I got the better keyboard that I could you know. I feel real confident on that keyboard.
Everything’S. Looking nice now Dells looking nice now, Lenovo is looking nice now HP’s looking night. Looking nice now is just everybody right. So then you look at those other pieces when you make your decision and for me, if you can give me a bunch of ports and options on the side, I’m gon na take it if I can get it, how about you? On the other hand, if you had to go to Windows right now and give up your MacBook, which windows laptop, would you grab? I would probably pick this your analogy. It’S like a nice ease into you, know, windows, which I love using. I have a desktop, but this just kind of gives me the comfort of like it’s a sleek thing that I can take to like a coffee shop.
You don’t even notice yeah you wan na suck. If you came from this, if you had a previous generation MacBook Air – and I just like subbed it out for this – I’m like you’re gon na try Windows for a bit mm- yeah, even gon, na notice yeah. I think internally. It gives me peace of mind right.
It’S just like oh yeah. This is similar to the Mac. Well, that’s what they were going for and that’s definitely what this is similar to a MacBook, I’m gon na call it the Windows. .