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I'd like to start this review off by disclosing the fact that I've been using the mate book X Pro from Huawei yeah I know it's kind of a weird name as my daily driver for just over two weeks now to replace my 13 inch of MacBook Pro base model to the 2017 edition as you'll find it compared to the mate book in almost every single way in this video I think the juxtaposition is a fair one though because they're not only equitable in terms of price but they're like copies of each other well I should say hawawa copied Apple when it comes to the design but they definitely improved many things across the board and we'll talk about those in this video so here it goes the huawei mate book X Pro review now at first glance you might be thinking okay yeah they definitely ripped off the MacBooks design here the dimensions of both are nearly identical I'm talking length width height whatever you want to look at slim foe speaker grilles surround the keyboards there are even two USB C ports on the left side of each granted only one on the mate books is a Thunderbolt 3 and chargeable but what makes the mate book truly great are its improvements elsewhere in the design and function of the laptop for instance it's difficult to overlook this beautiful nearly bezel as display capable of up to 450 nits it rivals the brightness of the MacBook the color gamut here is also pretty incredible not quite on par with the Mac books in terms of Adobe RGB but nearly 100% srgb I noticed neither oversaturation nor backlight bleed and the 3000 by 2000 resolution brings with the DES pixel density of 259 a clear step up from the 2560 by 1600 13.3 inch 227 PPI density of the Retina display with these dimensions comes a slightly taller aspect ratio for the mate book than traditional sixteen by nine you'll find a three by two here meaning you'll see black bars and pretty much any widescreen video you watch I'm more than welcome the extra real estate you don't have black bars when you're surfing the web when you're content creating and I'm fine with that other aspect to the screen are satisfactory as well the LTPS technology yields excellent viewing angles in a decent contrast ratio oh and did I mention it's also yeah a touchscreen and that's something the Mac books have never had this is a clear step up from the 13-inch retina panel in every regard that I can think of so a great job while wait with this display but a near bezel us form comes with quirky function you know what I'm talking about here the camera right where is it you ask is it here nope is it here no is it what Dell does with the XPS 13 is it down here somewhere the answers still no it's actually right here in the keyboard that's right a click release key of sorts hides an upward facing one megapixel sensor with of course terrible low-light performance as you might expect along with putrid and viewing angles I'm not even sure this really qualifies as 720p not that the MacBooks is any better it's just it's so sad to see a MacBook Pro with such a terrible camera but now that who always also doing it I really can't talk the MacBook any more for it this is a test of both of the camera quality as well as the mic sensitivity and quality I'm about two feet or so away from the screen and of course I'm looking down at the camera because it is below everything above it so if you want to look at content on screen this is what it will look like to someone watching you on camera your eyes are going to be so you definitely higher than the person that you're actually trying to talk to via the camera but a convenience factor associated with always take is that it can be securely stowed into the keyboard tray meaning that you don't have to worry about unwanted spies snooping in on well whatever you happen to be doing no more tape tinfoil hat wears now fit in all seriousness cam hacking is a serious and a real thing it's happened before many times and this design mitigates the issue altogether so all in all I would trade optimal camera placement for extra screen real estate and this cameras no function any day of the week I also enjoy watching companies tackle the camera placement issue in different ways this is by far the most unique I've seen in an ultrabook more on the build quality it's very similar and feel to the MacBook surrounded by solid aluminum on all corners although the mate books feel is just a bit smoother so the MacBooks has a more rough aluminum texture this one might be a bit more slippery just something to keep in mind chamfered edges make the mate book look pretty majestic AF in my opinion and the sturdy hinge is still subtle enough to be open with one finger and it actually won't wobble too much either when being pressed with a finger remember this is a touch panel I hate this about other laptops in the elder book category they always seem to wobble whenever you push it this one of course if you give it some force is gonna do that but I don't think that it's a major concern if you're just kind of you know tapping something or sliding up and down you're not gonna have too much wobble at all I do find the trackpad a bit lacking though definitely a downgrade from the math book though any laptop is going to be a downgrade from the MacBook in terms of the trackpad if anyone's doing it right it's Apple in this regard I'm not gonna dock them for it at all so the two physical buttons on the mate books touch pad here on the bottom left and right side are a bit loud and difficult to push though you could just tap with your finger instead I'll be it without any physical feedback and I think that's the part that I miss the most with this little haptic engine here on the MacBook you feel it wherever you push just because of the motor embedded into the touchpad itself other than that the mate books is pretty large taking full advantage of the gap beneath the keyboard and it is fairly precise it'll you know detect even the smallest of movements with your finger by the way don't confuse the mate book X with the mate book X Pro you want the pro model but there are two versions the i-5 in the i7 and you want the i7 Pro model specifically we'll discuss why here shortly but next let's talk about the mate book keyboard now you're probably assuming it'll be difficult to adjust to thanks to the slim profile yet only MacBooks really suffer the fatal key switch flaw thanks to that butterfly design which really wasn't corrected the second time around third time around supposedly fixes the issue but this laptop here does not have third gen butterfly switches we're still on 2nd gen and that's a huge problem because Apple actually doesn't even fix the issue by you know implementing a 3rd gen switch when you send it in for repair if something stops working it's all discussed in this video right here by the way if you're more interested now fortunately the mate book X Pro though copying much of Apple's design to you stayed away from such a dangerous which is in favor of more traditional mushy keys I know it sounds weird to promote such a bland tactile feedback because there's almost literally none in this chiclet style keyboard especially when it's in the context of mechanicals right but for an ultrabook I'd put this on par with maybe like a Dell XPS 13 they aren't great but they're better than what you'd expect from this form factor and that's all I'm really worried about they also won't break on you three months into use so there's that another cool feature just above the keyboard is a fingerprint scanner and it's embedded into the power button it's fast with Windows hello and much easier than chugging a pin or password just takes a bit of getting used to pushing the button versus typing in a pin if that's what you've been doing for the longest time less than a second of whole time even while sleeping and you'll be signed in automatically up next I want to discuss drive speeds this i7 unit comes equipped by default with a 512 gigabyte pcie-based in VME SSD these reads and writes almost line up with this thing screen resolution oddly enough so a blazing fast 3 gigabytes per second or 3,000 megabytes per second for reads two-ish tuition gigabytes for writes you'll find that it competes almost neck-and-neck actually with the macbook counterpart and i've really never had anything bad to say about modern Apple drives Windows loads from a cold boot in about 8 seconds games fire up instantly and best of all no unwarranted harddrive noise which is not something you should expect anyway the most ultra books I recommend by the way opting for the higher tier storage model not just for the i7 and GPU half a terabyte is kind of a bare minimum I would recommend for a laptop of this calibre any less and you may find yourself upgrading drives in the future at which point should've gone with a larger Drive to begin with right and saved yourself the hassle of transferring the operating system important files yeah it can be a mess sometimes now on to other relevant internal specs starting first with the CPU this is the Intel Core i7 8550 you a KB Lake are quad core packing a 15 watt TDP and boost clock of 4 gigahertz it should be noted that this turbo frequency is rarely attained though under intense workloads daring Adobe Premiere workloads for example average core frequencies level off around 3 gigahertz instead and it's still not bad though for a quad core hyper-threaded ultra-low power chip now the performance Department this thing actually excels a score of 529 in Cinebench is a huge step up from the lowly dual core i7 ultra low power CPUs from days past that's what's in this macbook by the way they did step it up recently but still no discrete graphics and that's a deal breaker for me geek bench scores reveal strong single core performers despite reduced clock speeds under load and a modest multi-core score thanks in large part to hyper threading in this scenario this translates to solid debris from your pro renders which when paired with the MX 150 which I'll talk about a second amount to a respectable ten minutes for a five-minute 4k video file I'm not even joking 10 minutes with this machine here that is unheard of most ultrabooks take 30 40 minutes to render a five-minute 4k video file at about 40 megabits per second so this is incredible we aren't even far off the mark of lower and desktop grade CPUs with much higher TDPS our kilise hill here is definitely the small chassis and the thermal limitations associated with it but if portability is a top priority that's what an ultra is for then this one is one of the best in the business now let's move on to the MX 115 NVIDIA GPU included in the i7 variant of the mate book X Pro it's the one I'd advise you buy for only a couple hundred USD more than the eight gig i5 model without discrete graphics that's a deal-breaker again I recommend the d GPU it's a huge step up in almost every regard the MX 150 packs a heck of a punch in such a small form factor nearly doubling the OpenCL performance of the i7s integrated uhd 620 graphics according to our Geekbench runs in fact watching these two GPUs tag team via quick sync in Premiere Pro is a pretty phenomenal process partly explaining our low render times we saw earlier the MX 150 can game - now none of the native resolution obviously but modestly with 1080p in low settings I'm talking specifically about pub G here which isn't buttery smooth from an optimization standpoint anyway we're looking at anywhere between 35 and 50 fps in the very low preset at a resolution slightly higher than 1080p actually because we have a three by two aspect ratio it's 1920 by 1200 if we don't want the stretched image but if you're more into fortnight let's say that may pick X Pro still turns out just under 60 fps on average again these are incredible numbers relatively speaking but watching a laptop the size of a 13-inch MacBook Pro turn out playable frame rates and modern battle royale titles is pretty incredible if you ask me now temperatures across the board were also fantastic to my surprise the fans kick on fairly early but they aren't loud by any means go ahead and have a listen so yeah definitely quieter than some of the beefy gaming laptops on the market do keep in mind though that this GPU only sports two gigs of beer amps so bumping inium settings and soccer titles will be a challenge that's assuming that your GPU though isn't already the bottleneck which in most cases will be the case now a few other things I'd like to briefly mention battery life is excellent emitting around nine hours of my use which is pretty heavy and about 10 hours when playing back 4k Netflix at 50% brightness that's also really incredible for a laptop of the size these speakers also sound great there are four of them two against the keyboard edges along with two larger ones down below the range is excellent sounds are undistorted all the way up to max volume and the bass is very present go ahead and have a listen to these not as much of a kick as the MacBooks which I think are still the best if you listen to them in person is the difficult to kind of translate this across a microphone the macbook sound a bit clearer but the netbook x pro speakers get significantly louder so if that's a concern to you this one is definitely the louder one of the two and again at minimal Distortion so these are actually pretty high quality speakers in a laptop again in this size I also failed to mention the ultimate selling point for the may pick X Pro USB type-a that's right we actually get a single type a port on the right side of the chassis there's barely enough space for it but Huawei made it work with this you can connect to gaming mice wired headsets following this pretty much anything that isn't super new so the things I love about this laptop just to recap here the great screen discrete graphics embedded and the slim profile things I think are kind of math not deal-breakers but things I'd like to see improve in the future the camera exactly down here the keyboard and the trackpad I wouldn't say they're deal-breakers again just things that do need improvement now for my workloads the may pick X Pro is just a massive jump in the right direction especially when compared to them to the MacBook 13-inch model I've been using Final Cut Pro with a MacBook and it's very well optimized for this software for Mac OS but again you can only get it on Mac OS and that's a compromise for quite a number of people out there if you're interested in Adobe Premiere Pro more like solid rendering on Windows 10 which is used by quite a number of people and I think this is one of the best ultrabooks in its class hands down it's about 1500 bucks but I would choose this over like a Dell XPS 15 for around the same price because it does come with a 10 X 150 and that makes a world of a difference you can find this product link down below along with a few other ultrabooks kind of similar to this one I know Asus has an ultrabook with a discrete chip in it but I'd like the build quality of this one better I like the screen better on this one and you get the 512 gig SSD right the 16 gigs of ram by default with this model so now I want to hear from you guys in the comments down below if you think that the huawei mate book X Pro is a step in the right direction for ultrabooks let us know if you disagree with anything I've said in this video maybe the opinions expressed based on some of the specs that we've listed then let's duke it out i'm before that right I know that Apple fanboys are gonna creep their way into here and I'm sure they're gonna have things to say about the Huawei being on and all its solid coffee nobody can do things better than Apple that's why they copied them blah blah blah but whatever ultimately Huawei has improved what Apple should have already improved in their MacBook 13-inch models and they've managed to cram a discreet GP when you're at the same time again an infinity edge display almost from like you know similar to what Delta's with the XPS 13 s discrete chip mediocre trackpad a weird camera placement excellent battery life a price is comparable to a MacBook 13-inch model that's significantly weaker in many respects it's hard to bargain with an Apple laptop when you have this in your corner so if this video a thumbs-up if you thought it was cool dislike it if you like umm but opposite or if you hate everything about life you guys can click that red subscribe button if you feel like getting fancy with it you can also sponsor us or join that's basically your way of like paying us money I don't know what you kids gonna call it eventually but it's gonna change from sponsor to something else soon if you're already a sponsor and you want to keep sponsoring us don't worry about it nothing will change on your end you'll still get the icons the badges of sport and live streams and what have you anyway thanks for 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