This is the New Huawei Matebook D 15 2020 Version. The entry-level version will set you back 600 pounds which is actually relatively affordable for a very premium ultrabook.
The Matebook D is actually quarried cheapest
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Features & Design Overview:
It looks pretty smart actually and premium considering the price. there's definitely cues from a certain fruit-based rival. if they even call this aluminum chassis Space Gray as well but that's no bad thing and I think it definitely looks more expensive than it is which is always a good thing.
we've got pretty thin bezels, although they are plastic and they protrude a little bit they're not flush with the screen so that takes away a little bit from the premium aesthetic and the key feel a little bit plasticky and cheap and then not bad clear either. so you can see some areas where they're cost saving but for a 15.6-inch laptop and Weight just 1.62 kilograms. it's remarkably portable as well so I think the design is definitely one of the selling points of this. This Laptop comes with
if security is important to you if you're so on who puts a bit of tape over their webcam normally the fact you can just press the little key here between f6 and f7 to physically hide or recess the webcam, I think it's definitely a selling point. Then we have the power button which also doubles as a fingerprint minute, so with just one press, you can start it up and log in.
We also get USB C charging which is not something you find on lower-end mid-range laptops, you usually get those horrible proprietary little DC in cables. So, actually what that means is you can also charge your phone assuming you're not using an iPhone and actually it's pretty fast as well the charger is 65 watt so you can go from 0 to 55 percent battery in half an hour which is actually very impressive and again fast charging is not something you tend to see on more mid-range laptops.
Finally, we have Huwaei Share, now you may have seen this before on previous Matebooks and the idea is that you can pair it with Huawei's phone and then easily transfer photos and videos with one-touch through NFC.
If you're using a Huawei Phone with EMUI10 or later there's a new feature called multi-screen collaboration. So, what you can do with your Huwaei is with one touch you can connect it to the laptop and then you can actually use your phone on the laptop screen whether you're swiping between home screens, messaging someone, you can even use the mouse and keyboard to type messages and the coolest thing is you can then drag and drop files or photos over to the desktop from the phone, it's all done for its own local Wi-Fi network so, it doesn't use up any data.
I love it when tech works together that seamlessly. it doesn't happen very often although of course, you do need to buy into the
Spec & Technical Information :
We still have Microsoft Windows and we're getting the latest updates and on the higher end models of this and other Matebooks. we get Intel processors so their laptop division doesn't seem to be affected at all which is good news. this is the entry-level model where we get the AMD Rison 3500U along with 8 gigs of ram and 256 gigs of SSD storage which is absolutely fine. it's not going to break any records. that processor is roughly equivalent to the previous Gen i5 the 8250U So, it's okay.
it's a quad-core chip with 8 threads and also 8 gigs of ram are pretty much the minimum but acceptable minimum these days for laptops. although this can expect up to 16 gigs. so actually using every day it's pretty nippy and that's also largely thanks to the fast NVME SSD we get inside here although 256 gigs isn't a lot if you stole a couple of games and put a few videos on there that will fill up quickly. as for graphics, we get AMD's Vega 8 chip which is built into the processor is an integrated chip.
it doesn't quite come up to say the Nvidia MX 150 or even Intel's brand new iris + graphics and that's because actually, this processor is getting on a little bit. we're expected to see in these new 4000 Rison series in a month or so so that is worth bearing in mind but you know what for everyday stuff a little bit of Lightroom like TTP video editing this is absolutely fine and you can also get away with just a little bit of like gaming as well.
Actually, even when I was gaming or rendering videos it stayed cool and quiet throughout and I think that's thanks to Huawei's new shark fin to design which is another new feature. it never got particularly loud and no one a laptop doesn't get anywhere close to uncomfortably warm it was actually very impressive.
Not Big But I Have Noticed Some Problems:
So far so good then but as I say I do have a couple of problems with maple with d15 the first one being the screen. it's okay but it is not color accurate it doesn't get particularly bright looking at a peak of 220 nits and say if you've tried color correct photos or video on this the 65% sRGB 49% aRGB and 48 percent p3 Gallants. color accuracy is pretty poor actually and also with an 800 to 1 contrast ratio it just looks a little bit washed out. it's not the end of the world and again you do have to factor in the price of this 600 pounds.
My other issue is battery life it's not great inside we get a 42 watt-hour cell which is a good deal smaller than the 56-watt hour cell. Huawei says you may get up to sort of 10 hours of use that's their tests with local video playback at 150 minutes but with normal use, you're looking at more like five and a half hours the upside though is that we do have that fast 65 watts charging so you can top it up pretty quickly
Other Information Inside This Laptop :
So, then the big question should you actually buy the 2020 Matebook D 15 ? well I think for 600 pounds it's a pretty good value laptop/ although I have to say I do think it's smaller brother the 14 Inch Model may be a better bet, you get a better battery life, it's obviously thinner and lighter because you get a smaller screen and while it does cost 50 pounds more you do get double the storage 512 which is kind of what you want in 2020.
So, for a bunch of reasons, I think that maybe the better option but if you won the biggest screen and also the extra USB a port and then yeah this is still worth considering. The screen and the battery let it down a little bit but then I think the design, the fact that we get the fast charging, the webcam and also the Huawei share assuming you are invested in the Huawei ecosystem.
What do you think on the Matebook D 15? would you consider buying this or if not what laptop are you looking to upgrade to next let me know in the comments below.
Analysis By - Ifti Ahmed
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