Well its a great looking laptop when you see it and the spec reads like an Olympic thoroughbred.
Huawei MateBook X Pro, with the Intel Comet Lake Core i7-10510U processor, 16 GB of LPDDR3 RAM, 1 TB of fast SSD storage and dual graphics, with the Intel UHD embedded within the Core U platform and a dedicated Nvidia MX250 chip,
The screen has an insane 3000X2000 resolution which you need a magnifying glass to see anything on it specially with those Java apps that don’t scale quite a well with MSFT’s various scaling utilities.
First disappointment was when I hooked it up to an external monitor . The image was slightly blurred and when compared to my now rather old ASUS Zenbook which has a native HDMI port the Huawei it looked absolutely rubbish!
On further investigation it appears they have crippled the thunderbolt ports to run at a slower 20Mz and it shows! They also didn’t want to cough out the license fee to Intel apparently in order to call them Thunderbolt ports so maybe as a consequence they are not recognises by the Windows Thunderbolt controll center which reports NO APPROVED devices,
Another surprise to add was the crippled NVIDIA GT250 whose performance is downgraded by 35% add to that the fact that the laptop runs hot… and I mean very hot… I have measured centre of keyboard temperatures at 47 deg this caused CPU & GPUs to throttle down so as to not burn out…
So really what are you rally getting?
Well you can sum it up: A top priced, good looking laptop with mediocre performance!
As long as you stick to doing browsing and a little office work on it is just fine but then for that do you need a top spec laptop?
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