Honor MagicBook: another MacBook clone with a price tag of $ 800

Along with the flagship smartphone Honor 10 "daughter" Huawei showed an ultrabook Honor MagicBook with thin screen frames and Intel Core processors of the eighth generation.

What do we have here?

The laptop is equipped with a 14-inch Full HD-display (1920x1080 pixels) with a thickness of side frames of only 5.2 mm. Above it a little more, but there was a camera for video calls. The panel occupies 81% of the area - up to the level of the flagship Huawei MateBook X Pro does not hold out, but also not bad. The top cover can be opened 180 degrees.

Inside the processor is used Intel Core i5-8250U or Core i7-8550U. There is a discrete graphics NVIDIA GeForce MX150 with 2 GB of video memory GDDR5. The amount of RAM is 8 GB, the capacity of the SSD-drive is 256 GB. The keyboard with the three-level illumination is protected from a strait of a liquid. On the sides of it there are two speakers, claimed technology Dolby Atmos Sound System. The power button has a built-in fingerprint scanner.

Honor MagicBook received a metal case and is very similar to the MacBook Pro (without the Touch Bar), except that the touchpad of a Chinese of the most usual sizes. Available in three colors: silver, gray and pink-purple. At full charge of the battery capacity of 57.4 W · h the laptop will last up to 12 hours of operation in the mode of web surfing or viewing of Full HD-video.

At a thickness of 15.8 mm (9.6 mm at the thinnest point), the notebook weighs 1.47 kg. Declared support for Wi-Fi 2x2 MIMO for fast and stable connection. From the interfaces there are USB 2.0, USB 3.0, HDMI, 3.5-mm connector and USB Type-C, which is used for charging. The operating system is Windows 10 Home, but it is not yet known how things stand with the support of interface languages. In Xiaomi notebooks, for example, there is only Chinese.

Question price

In China, Honor MagicBook will go on sale on April 23 at a price of $ 800 for a model on the Core i5. The top version will cost $ 910, but since the difference is only in the processor, it is worthwhile to dwell on the standard configuration

The main competitor among the models "a la MacBook" is the updated Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13.3 ($ 860). Whether it is planned to release the Honor laptop in other countries is unknown.

Source: Honor