Get your laptop on Amazon click here https://amzn.to/2OznL4Q or click the image below!
Technical information
Brand HUAWEI
Colour AMD R7, Win 10 Home
Memory storage capacity512 GB
Operating SystemWindows 10 Home
Screen size 14
Display type IPS
Manufacturer Huawei
Form Factor Ultrabook
Series Matebook
CPU speed 2400 MHz
About this item
With powerful system architecture and software stack capacities, the laptop provides you with the large screen and light weight possible for a laptop of its size; with a thickness of 15.9 mm and a weight of 1.38 kg, the MateBook stands out from other laptops with a 14 Inch screen
Multi-Screen Collaboration facilitates seamless cross-device interaction with the MateBook D 14, allowing you to project your phone screen to the laptop; this not only allows you to use phone applications and edit phone files on your laptop, but also to drag files between the two devices more easily
Fingerprint sensor suuported allowing you to log in to your MateBook D 14 without having to enter a password by simply pressing the power button; It also features a two-stage backlight that illuminates the keyboard in the dark
HUAWEI MateBook D 14 is a ideal travel companion packed with 56 Wh battery, you can get through a long haul flight by binge-watching a series with up to 9.5 hours of 1080P videos
The increased AMD Ryzen 7 3700U efficiency make this laptop ideal for use in a variety of complex office and gaming scenarios; the S-shaped blade design facilitates heat dispersion and airflow, increasing the laptop's ability to dissipate heat
Costumers Product Reviews
Pros
Works like a charm, been using it to work at home during lockdown for Coronavirus and it's handled nine hours of constant use with HDMI upscaling to two screens without a problem. It's quick opening and navigating Windows, conference calling on Microsoft Teams is no problem and it handles Citrix remote connectivity comfortably. Not found any issues multi tasking and the fan is very quiet when it kicks in, the keyboard and track pad are reassuringly responsive and screen colouration is fine with different filters and resolutions available in settings. Only minor point of criticism is no backlight to the keyboard but easily remedied with a usb light as there's three usb ports.
I've seen mention in other reviews that the screen is washed out but I really can't say I'm finding that, perhaps if you're into gaming or streaming movies it might be but for day to day use this is a fine piece of kit at a mid range price.
If you want loads of on board storage you're only getting 256GB (35GB used by system) here unless you add an external HDD and maybe DVDR. I've got a 1TB HDD connected and it reads and saves to this very quickly, I haven't tried running anything from the external HDD but with 8GB of RAM it really should cope with anything.
I get about five hours out of the battery on a full charge and that's in constant use in double screen with WiFi, it charges to full from 20% in just under an hour but the trickle charge at the end at around 98% can a bit annoying if like me you like to see 100% on the battery meter before you unplug it.
The fingerprint sensor is accurate and being an SSD the boot and shutdown times are seconds not minutes. All in all a great piece of kit for both working and day to day stuff, bags of internal power to cope with most things although I can't really comment on gaming or streaming, I use an Nvidia Shield for that kind of malarkey.
Cons
The good:
Build quality, FHD screen, the software driver and update manager [PC Manager], and integration with Huawei Mobile are very good
The Bad:
Trackpad, keyboard, battery life, charger gets very hot, short power cable
The Ugly:
Pop-up camera [in the keyboard] people are likely to be seeing your nostrils rather than your face, and you can't see people on your screen during a conversation if you wanted to establish eye contact with them!
The Microphone is problematic, because it sits under the pop-up camera, you have to be facing the camera and be very close [within 12 inch] for you to be heard clearly. The moment you move beyond 12 inch or if you move to the left or right of the camera by a very small angle then your voice won't be heard, people will hear you as if you are in a deep well!
The system gets very hot with loud fan noise, especially when video conferencing, or even when using simple applications like excel.
The integrated Graphics driver caused several "blue screen of death" ending up with a crash and core dumps, not able to recover unless you restart the system twice.
The Laptop was advertised as having 8GB RAM, but it doesn't say clearly that you cannot upgrade the RAM, in reality you end up by having only 6GB of RAM due to the fact that 2GB are being reserved by the system for the integrated video adapter.
The system sometimes freezes and the mouse gets stuck intermittently.
On one instance we had total data loss when my wife transferred the photos from her mobile, everything was saved on the Laptop hard disk [SSD] but when she disconnected the mobile from the USB, and rebooted the Laptop the saved folder disappeared.
The Laptop initially was advertised as alloy and having backlit keyboard, which was one of the main wanted features, however, it tuned out that the alloy body and backlit keyboard were for the 14 INCH version not the 15.6.
In general I was a bit disappointed with this purchase and I returned the Laptop for a full refund as promised by Amazon helpline staff.
Get your laptop on Amazon click here https://amzn.to/2OznL4Q
Comments