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hey how's it going guys this is Dave 2d and this is a video on the huawei mate book so this is a 12 inch Windows tablet cost $700 it's got two and one capabilities it's got a very clean design let's take a look so when you open the box you get the mate book itself 24 watt adapter a double mail USBC cable and then some components to adapt to other USB devices this cable lets you connect to micro USB and then if you plug this in the adapter you get a standard USB port so the build quality is really nice recent Huawei devices have had excellent build quality and this one is no different aluminum body chamfered edges the exterior finish feels very similar to an iPad is that silky smooth texture the device has a little bit of flex but it doesn't bother me at all now in terms of how it feels when you use it this is a very comfortable tablet to hold it's got rounded corners rounded edges it's not too heavy I like handling it now going around the edges we have a volume rocker power button stereo speakers up top a headphone jack mic and the keyboard connector pins on the bottom there's only one port on this device is a USB 3.0 type C connection it's not Thunderbolt 3 so there's no external GPU connections you can charge the device through this port and you can also connect drives and peripherals there's an optional mate dock by Huawei that connects to the port I think it's $90 this thing has use PC pass-through so you can charge it while it's docked and as a couple use bas Ethernet HDMI out VGA out and it magnetically fits into a carrying case if you're using the mate book for work or for college a dock like this can be super useful the volume rocker actually has a fingerprint sensor in the middle it's fast its accurate and works with Windows hello to log you into the tablet pretty quickly the display is a 12 inch IPS panel and it's pretty good quad HD so 2560 by 1440 if you turn off the automatic controls you can get up to 400 nits it's still not great for viewing outdoors because of the glossy screen but indoors it's awesome viewing angles are great and so is the color gamut when I'm measuring with the spider for the bezels are also pretty thin at 10 millimeters and overall I really like this screen the speakers on the top edge of the tablet okay to get loud louder than you would think for the size that they are but they don't sound particularly clear I'd say they sound a little bit worse than the speakers on the surface Pro for the webcam up top is five megapixels and it's actually pretty good but if you'll notice there's no rear facing camera on the device and at first I thought this was pretty cool because well I'm not a tablet photography person and it keeps the back really clean by not having a camera cut out but I use this for Skype a few times and once I want to show what I was looking at to the person I was talking to and I realized that in order for me to do this I had to flip the device around use the front-facing camera and kind of hope that I was aiming it in the right direction it's not a big deal and I won't affect most people but if you are a frequent video color keep that in mind there's an optional $60.00 mate pen it's rechargeable my microUSB kind of wish they'd made it a type-c connector but it works well 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity and it has a laser pointer if you want to go old-school the portfolio keyboard costs $130 and it connects magnetically using pogo pins the keyboard has backlighting and the keys have one and a half millimeters of travel it's a pretty comfortable keyboard and I think most people will get used to it quickly I would say that the keyboard from the surface pro 4 is better not by lot but I do think it's better the trackpad is big for this type of device so if you're coming from a laptop it's an easy transition it has a nice texture on the glass surface tracking around is good but the button mechanism feels kind of average to me clicking and dragging sometimes feels unresponsive but I've been told that a software update will fix this soon the cover to the portfolio keyboard has folding flaps and because the structural support is dependent on the flaps it's not sturdy using it on your lap at all now if you're using it on a table or any kind of flat surface it's structurally sound you don't have to worry about it but if your workflow requires you to use the mate book on your lap it's not going to be easy then terms of screen tilt it's not universally adjustable in fact there's only two sets of positions one of them you set up like this it's sturdy in a flat position the other position is tilted back a bit more but it uses magnets to secure it into place and it's pretty easy to knock down but fortunately I think the first position is a good angle for most people the unit I have is the base model skylake core M 3 HD five-on-five integrated graphics with only 4 gigs of RAM it's the same loadout as the base models of the surface pro 4 and the Samsung Tab pro s drive speeds are okay but the performance overall is good if you're doing light tasks like email web browsing or typing up documents for work it's more than enough but you might feel limited with four gigs of RAM if you have a lot of browser tabs open gaming isn't great even the lightest 3d games run at pretty crappy frame rates but overall I'm happy with the performance on the base model thermally it's a little warm with heavy use but on my m3 version never gets uncomfortable to hold ok the battery life is less than the advertised nine hours I was getting around 5 to 6 hours of light use and screen at 75% it doesn't have good battery life especially for a tablet but it does support quick charging and it gets you a full charge and around two and a half hours alright the huawei mate book it starts at seven hundred dollars it's a six point nine millimeter thick tablet nicely machined aluminum with no camera on the back it has a 12 inch IPS panel that's bright with pretty good color gamut and the bezels are nice and thin there's two speakers on the top that get loud but they don't sound amazing there's a super quick fingerprint scanner for Windows hello the portfolio keyboard is backlit has good key travel and it's a pretty solid typing experience the glass trackpad is spacious but the button mechanism isn't the best the fold up stand only has a couple positions it's good on a flat surface but it's not really usable on the lab on the inside the core m3 processor is sufficient for work and media consumption but it's not great for gaming the RAM and storage are not user replaceable but the base model with four gigs of RAM is enough for light computer use and then juicing this tablet is a battery that lasts around five to six hours of regular use now there's obviously things I don't love about the mate book and for some people these might be deal-breakers but things like the portfolio keyboard I wish I had more till positions for the screen I wish the portfolio keyboard was a little more sturdy so that I could use it on my lap I'd also wish it had a bigger battery or a longer battery life but aside from those things I really like this device it's one of the best Windows experiences in terms of the the Aeronautics of the tablet most Windows tablets are uncomfortable to hold this one just nails it and if you look at the laptop experience it's also really good as long as you don't have to use it on your lap so if you're a student or you're a professional that's looking for a tune one that has a really good tablet experience as well take a look at the maid book you might like it that's you in this video I hope you guys liked it thumbs if you liked it subs if you loved it it's been nice I'll see you guys next time