HUAWEI Matebook X Pro Review. The BEST Business Laptop of 2024? 

It would be nice to see Huawei unrestricted again.

I will never touch a macbook, no matter, I do love em Dell and HPs, but for price and functions, it will be Huawel, Asus all the way. Innovation and free market competition is dead in the west, all you get now are cartel price controlled in pretty much everything. The only thing innovative is their prices!

Yes glad to see it doesn't have it! But boy Windows sure is getting so bloated now. Time to run BloatNosy and remove all the bloaty bits from MS.

Slowly heading there it's been a long road! But thank you for your support.

The only other person covering these types of devices so quicky is Tech Spurt, I watch them both regularly.

Thank you for the comment and support. Those old Notebook Pro from Xiaomi where great back in the day. This Huawei is really impressive and would be a huge step up for you.

Audio jack was a surprise I think they should have left that in. I guess in their quest for weight reduction they made that call. One type a usb and 3.5mm wouid have been perfect.

In my country, they are throwing a free ear bud and dock. So, it will make up for what's missing.

Yes it's that. Similar temps on all the Ultra laptops I've covered 😕

@@Techtablets Really worried about the Ultra line up. At work our most recent batch of Intel devices are cooking themselves. 30/50 in just the first few months. They last a few weeks before the heat damage begins bluescreening the device multiple times a day. The techs replace the motherboards on most of them, they last a few more weeks and repeat.

They are very power hungry and heat up so quickly so not surprised. It's not just Intel, I've tested 8845HS laptops and its' the same story they hit the high 90s.

@@ericneo2 I mainly live in Thailand which is hot and I would never buy a laptop with more than an i5 in it as they just used to overheat

When you reinstall Windows, files on C drive don't get deleted though

Glad you liked it!

So I read and that's such a loss for the pc world, but hopefully they can use AMD?

@@TechtabletsThey already banned from AMD since 2019 😢. Huawei working on developing their own processors equivalent to M3 and operating systems harmony OS. In my opinion it might succeed in china not global.

I’ve been running it connected up to my 4k monitor and the fan is always on but low rpm you can’t really hear it.

And how bloated and slow Windows 11 is becoming. It's only getting worse!

Personally I’ve never had issues with them dying on me. They are good as any other laptop.

Also, do you have any clarity on when will you be reviewing any Spandragon laptops? Like Yoga Slim 7? Super curious how would they compare.

P30 was and is still a beast 5 years later

P30 pro user here from 2019

Powerful hardware and that screen res I did expect it. Really needs like 99wh battery but then the weight and if they have room. Oh I just read it was Qualcomm chips but also Intel, damn not good as they make some amazing PC hardware.

Thanks for watching

No thank you for watching!!

Not sure I'll buy that one to review sorry.

No flicker that I can see. Yes that 155H should have better thermals.

It's possible I thought the same but the bios up I just got and used in this video is a general public one? Maybe the set 50w now for reviews and later drop it to 40w.

Thunderbolt 4 eGPU.

It's one of the best for a glossy display with reduced reflections BUT they are still present. Really usable if not in direct sunlight.

@@Techtablets Currently I'm working on the ROG G14 with a matte screen. Do you think the visibility will be at least as good on the X Pro as on the G14? Maybe you could record a short film demonstrating the visibility of the text in daylight?

My thoughts exactly, it's very good for the size and weight of it.

They have to be some of the slimmest yes, especially the bottom bezel.

Using one right now with TB4 display out to my 4k120hz screen no issues. Docking works well as expected. No cutting out, no drive disconnections etc perfect so far.

@@Techtablets wow. Thanks for the answer. I have an older honor laptop, some 4 years old with ryzen processor. Everything is still perfect, but sadly it does not support docking. Looking to upgrade next year, and im researching upfront. Alhtough these type of machine have fairly limited space for adding memory, and stuff like that i find them very well built. And still, being able to install whatever software, not being bound by echosystem, still means a lot. Thank you for the info, once again.

This wasn't at CES or MWC, only recently announced in China first and now Europe.

I’m testing the new X Elite it’s very good but the Adreno graphics is very weak! And I don’t Huawei can work with Qualcomm.

@@Techtablets Ohh yeah totally forgot about the bans. What about Honor? Aren't they using SD processors in their phones? They might be able to make a SD laptop as well.

Garbage no but not amazing. It was a bit choppy with the Ai virtual backgrounds.

I have it connected to my 42" LG CX and it's great.

My pleasure!

G7 don't do innovation nor free market, mostly innovative cartel pricing!

Tandem OLED reaches >1600 nits!

Tandem OLED was out on Honor smartphones first. The dual OLED tech allows for less power consumption at higher brightness. So, it's unfortunate that Huawei didn't follow Honor's lead as Apple did.

I haven't seen anybody actually verify 1000 nits, seems most people are getting around 600.

Yea I did that months ago here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pBQ-RwXhJwc.html

@@Techtablets thank you so much!

Bitter ka lang kuya kasi wala kang pera pang apple products

Not sure but should be most countries.

Will be in UK

It would be also perfect then with that chipset and 3.5mm hpj.

Thank you. Yes so many stupid spam bots and RU-vid does nothing about it!

I booted a Linux pen drive and that was my result

Now it has two fans inside

I have the X100 Ultra coming

@@Techtablets 🙏 thanks, looking forward to it

Depends if you prefer Windows or MacOS.

@@Techtablets ok but technically speaking why choosing this Matebook????

It's fine not large enough to be an issue and it gives it a modern look.

@@Techtabletsmore like a macbook look lol

And how is the graphics? And what worries me is x86 support still up and down with emulation.

I'm sure keen to test X Elite and hopefully will next week at Computex.

They will have to have their own chips at this rate with the new sanctions.

2 percent in a week, that's definatley not true, my mac book pro with m3 pro loses around 20% in a day on stadby, a day being full 24 hours.

2 percent? That's crazy good.

​@@Techtablets that's why I'm asking about battery drain, it will be either the matebook x pro or macbook pro. The thing I hate about macbooks is the fact that they make the next Iteration worse if they realize the current product is to good for the price

Yes and speaking of the Gram, i'm working on my review of it. Also an impressively think and light laptop but at 16-inches. It's very good but the thermals and throttling aren't good with the LG.

@@Techtablets Great. While here in Switzerland LG has an awful distribution (and US keyboard layouts are hard to get), it'll be great to have a direct comparison. Nice work

I've got an OLED it's a LG CX 42" years old now and It's on at least 7 hours a day maybe more and no burn. The trick is to use screen saver of blank set to 1 minute. Auto hide taskbar, don't run 100% brightness nonstop and you should be fine. The last time I saw burn in AMOLED/OLED was my Galaxy S6.

I was in the same boat but now with this and how it edits 4k video I'm no sad I sold my MacBook Pro 16 M1 Pro. And then this build, screen and the weight is much better my MB was just same heavy...

@@Techtablets I see... my only problem with these windows laptops until the new Snadpragon X Elite laptops come up, is that battery and noise levels are not comparable with macbooks...

Only if Macbooks could actually be of any use to professionals outside of the video/illustration/spreadsheet/music needs. Try being a CAD engineer or an architect with a macbook, or a CGI artisti (like myself). No support for anything, nobody uses them because they are beyond useless with negligible software support. Would love to take that hardware for a spin, but from my perspective they are almost these exotic niche products of no real value. I guess my point is the only way an apple laptop may be the "go to" product in this field is if you're someone whose software needs align with that of a youtube creator in general. For spreadsheet/office use nobody really needs an m2 or m4 tbh.

@@aljosacebokli well that can be for your 'sector'. I've worked in several IT / dev companies and I can tell you that macbooks are the de facto standard since years... and for people 'just' using it for spreadsheet / office, having a completely silent laptop that last even days without charging it it can be a huge difference too

@@sssssalva1 I very much doubt that apple machines are the industry standard in the it/programming fields as most of these professionals will support Windows infrastructure or write software for Windows, which has over 70% market share globally. Mac OS has like a 15% market share total, unlikely to make it the prevalent standard in any field. I've worked through small studios to big companies to international corps in London and the only time I've seen a Mac is when I freelanced for a branding agency. My gf is an EA for finance and accounting firms and she has never been issued anything but a windows laptop by her employers. I guess my point is that the "oh but there's Mac why buy XY" really doesn't hold much water outside of the RU-vid creator community. Again, I think the hardware is really good and I'm also waiting to see what Qualcomm shows us this year for Windows.

The screen res takes its toll. If you watch only video then it's about double but browsing with WiFi.

Hmm yes but it's not out yet and ARM so still not everything runs well if X86. There are still some issues and when emulating it will not be as good as native. But hopefully the new X laptops I'll see in Taipei at Computex really looking forward to seeing if they live up to the hype.

For business use-case shouldn't be many problems, all Microsoft software will be fine. For cases where specific software is called for then perhaps non-native programs become a stumbling block. ASUS set to unveil their first one about 7 and half hours from now, and likely quite a few more in coming week or so with all the leaks flying around.

Well I found most X86 programs ran but performance wasn't there with some. Hopefully I'll get some hands-on time with it with ASUS once i'm there. The ARM powered Robo & Kama really impressed me so that X should be something.

I might be wrong but I would really wait and see with the Snapdragon X.....their last one wasn't great. And the OS is Microsoft not Apple. Apple have switched CPU's 3 times - successfully. Microsoft aren't even switching, only adding support....

@@catman99Well we're all waiting to see, not long now.

Haha of course they did, and fun fact I had a M1 Pro MBP 16" and it was great but I think this is better and now how it handles video editing I don't miss my MBP.

@@Techtablets Thank you for your honest reviews as always, sir. Keep up the good work 🤍

Thank you.

@@Techtablets I prefer the MB Pro 14 (M3Pro), costing a similar amount as it has far better battery life, as good a display, similar keyboard, trackpad and speakers, but the Mac runs mostly cold and silent. Also the Mac has far better IO. But as far as Windows laptops go, this resembles what Apple would make if doing Windows, and my first choice, though I am still unsold by this year's Intel and AMD chips. Thankfully, Huawei have recognised this and given a nice new design with added features.

Can a reluctant Apple user speak up? Im mostly stuck in the Apple ecosystem because of my kids. No iPhone would mean no FaceTime with them, no parental controls over them, no easy sending of full quality vids with them, no AirDrop with them, etc. if it weren’t for them, I’d have a NothingPhone at the moment. iPhone is pretty mediocre, really. … that said, the Mac laptops are Apples best product. I had a M1 pro MacBook Pro, was flawless. Upgraded to a M3 pro MacBook Pro, also flawless. Having a laptop with instant on/off, and almost no battery drain when closed, is really useful for business. And performance is great (I also have a top tier windows gaming laptop, and for daily usage outside of games, the MacBook Pro is snappier). Windows or MacOS is six of one, half dozen of another. Basically equivalent for normal folk. This Huawei definitely looks nice though. Cannot deny that. Once the new intel low power chips are in everything, and once MS fixes the sleep implementation in Windows, Apple loses its real advantage. Also cannot deny that.

LG Fram was even worse with the lower spec 7 155H chip it hit 108 degrees. All the new chips do this ☠️

@@Techtablets Wonder if this short peak damages the chip over time

not huawei, its intel's issue, if this were built with an ARM processor, this will actually be a perfect laptop, i guess huawei wont be able to use qualcom elite's chips

🤡 Been covering them since the Mate 10. Oh no one sub less what will I do. 😂

Get over yourself!

cope harder.

I subbed ​@@Techtabletsjust because of this comment. :D

The Ryzen 9 8845HS I've tested also does the same. They all hit those high temps briefly unfortunately it's not just one brand. But AMD still has the lead with gaming iGPU performance.

@@Techtablets reviewing the p70 ultra sir?