Huawei’s notebooks have now formed a complete
product line, including MateBook X Pro, MateBook X, MateBook D, MateBook E,
etc. Today, Huawei has released its brand new MateBook 13 at the Wuhan Research
Institute. This notebook features a narrow-screen full-screen design. The
Huawei MateBook 13 adopts a new aesthetic design. The surface is forged from an
aluminum alloy ceramic sandblasting process and the fuselage is curved. This is
supplemented by a chamfered CNC cutting design which gives this notebook a premium
appearance. It will be available in three colours which include deep space
gray, silver moon, cherry powder gold colours.
The Huawei Matebook 13 comes with a maximum weight
of 1.28 Kg and its thickness is only 14.9 mm. Huawei love to compare its
products with Apple and in comparison with the recently released MacBook Air,
this notebook weighs 30 grams more but it is 0.7 mm thinner. The Matebook 13 is
6% smaller than the MacBook Air overall.
Huawei Matebook 13 is a traditional notebook product
and it is equipped with a 13-inch IPS screen with a resolution of 2160 x 1440.
It has a screen ratio of 3:2 covering 100% sRGB color gamut. Its brightness
hits 300 nits and the side bezels are only 4.4mm thin. This makes the notebook
achieves an 88% screen-to-body ratio which is impressive. The Huawei Matebook
13 is powered by the latest Intel Whiskey Laek Core i7-8565U processor. Its thermal
design power consumption is only 13W.
Huawei Matebook 13 processor has eight generations
of Core i5-8265U/i7-8560U options (TDP15W) while the graphics card has UHD620
or NVIDIA MX150 (TDP25W) options. It is equipped with 8GB LPDDR3 RAM 2133MHz and
the hard disk is 256GB. For power, it comes with a 42 mW battery. For
connectivity, Huawei Matebook 13 has a USB-C interface on the left side and
another USB-C port with a 3.5mm headphone jack on the right side.
It is worth mentioning that Huawei Matebook 13 is
also the first of Huawei’s notebook to support Huawei Share 3.0 technology.
This tech has been seen in Huawei’s flagship such as the Mate 20 series. With
the Huawei Share 3.0 technology, the Mate 20 Series can transfer up to 1000
photos to your notebook in 2 seconds. Huawei Share 3.0 technology is an
NFC-based feature that can be used by Huawei mobile phones equipped with NFC
chips and EMUI 9.0 systems.