Huawei MateBook 14 2020 AMD review

04 October 2020
One of the most powerful thin and light 14-inch laptops on the market.

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  • 05 Oct 2020

To me, the plastic trackpad and the awfully glossy display ruin this laptop, a matte screen protector for this is inevitable. To be honest, the battery capacity is also a bit small but what's more important is that the power consumption of other components could've been a bit lower. To complete this review it would've been great to include color accuracy results since color gamut coverage isn't the main indicator of a display's color accuracy (assuming you already know this). Also, how about the power consumption of the cpu during those tests? Did it sustain 50W, 45W,35W or what? Just because the cpu is advertised as a 45W cpu it doesn't mean that it will sustain its max frequencies at that TDP. That was kinda uninformative, just telling us the clockspeeds isn't really ideal since frequencies don't truly represent the performance of the cpu, IPC is what also matters quite a lot but power-draw would've been great to include.
When did the fans start to ramp up during those benchmarks? Did they start to spin faster as soon as they hit a particular high temp or did they wait for a while and then start to spin? These is quite important info since it separates laptops apart, depending on their features. It would've been great if we'd know if the fans start to spin immediately or they wait (keep spinning at low RPMs) until the cpu has stayed at high temps (bcz of high power draw) for 1 minute or so and then to start ramp up the fans, lower the tdp and stabilize at at particular power-draw, similar to how Dell XPSes behave and Macbooks.

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    • Anonymous
    • nXp
    • 04 Oct 2020

    dear huawei, why didnt you removed 3.5mm?
    Dont you have enough guts?
    You can gain 997657998754356789999876988868994367213987509 m²

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      • Anonymous
      • GQd
      • 04 Oct 2020

      I love this design and most importantly a great laptop with AMD processor