Big performance in a light 980g body

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When focusing on getting work done, the last thing you need is for your laptop to break your concentration by not cooperating with you. A good productivity laptop should allow you to seamlessly blend its features to get the job done with ease. If you don’t know what I mean, you’ve probably never used such a machine.

Well, that streak might break once you experience working on the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024. It’s one of the few laptops on the market today that offer a combination of features that adapt to your working style while making the process as seamless as possible.

Here’s why the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 is a perfect partner for productivity work.

Freedom to work from anywhere

Sometimes, the place where you feel the least productive is at your desk. So you might feel like taking your work someplace that makes you feel more comfortable. You might also want your laptop with you everywhere you go just in case an idea strikes for a solution to that work problem you’ve been facing, and you can quickly apply it.

To make this possible, the laptop needs to be very light, and very light indeed is the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024. It’s built from magnesium alloy and weighs just 980g, making it cartoonishly light.

Besides that, it’s also impressively thin at just 13.5mm. The body is treated with a micro-arch oxidation, which not only makes it harder and more wear-resistant but also grippier.

So whether you’re, lugging it in a bag, carrying it around in your hand, supporting it with one hand, or using it on your lap, it will be long before you notice its weight. As such, you’ll want to take the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 with you everywhere you go.

Flexible OLED display, a first on a laptop

The display is the medium through which you interact and consume content. So HUAWEI gave the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 a flexible OLED display, a first on a laptop. Picture quality on this laptop is nothing short of impressive with perfect blacks, high contrast ratio, and vibrant colours, furtherance by HUAWEI’s X-True Display calibration.

It measures 14.2 inches and features a productivity-focused 3:2 aspect ratio, a high 3.1K resolution, and a 120Hz refresh rate. This is also the first laptop from HUAWEI to be calibrated for Adobe RGB colour space with a Delta E of less than 1.

In addition, the display can also accurately reproduce colours in the sRGB and P3 colour space. As such, you can use the display on the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 for colour grading.

Moreover, since you can take the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 with you wherever you go, it has to adapt to a wide variety of ambient lights. So when you’re working outdoors, the screen can hit a full-screen brightness of up to 600 nits with a peak of 1,000 nits.

Additionally, the screen also uses a nano-optical coating to reduce reflections by up to 70%, increasing screen legibility.

On the flip side, the display can turn its brightness down to just 2 nits making it comfortable to view at night in a dark room. This is further helped by the 1440Hz high-frequency dimming which reduces display flickering at low brightness to minimise eye strain.

Great keyboard, functional trackpad

Typing on the backlit keyboard of the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 is satisfying. The keys are tactile so you can feel when they click and when they spring back up, allowing you to find your typing rhythm.

You’ll also feel more comfortable as the layout offers great spacing between keys while keeping the keyboard compact enough to easily reach the common keys. Moreover, the alphabet keys are centred, allowing your hands to lay straight instead of at an offset angle.

When on the go, the trackpad is the most convenient way to control the cursor on a laptop. As such, the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 features a relatively large trackpad with a set of software features called HUAWEI Free Touch that expand its functionality.

Knocking twice using a single knuckle on the trackpad will take a screenshot while doing the same process with two knuckles starts a screen recording. Swiping one finger along the left edge of the trackpad to adjust the brightness while doing the same on the right edge will control the volume. Swiping along the top will let you seek the video timeline.

You can also minimise a window by pressing the upper left corner of the trackpad or close a window by pressing the upper right corner. When you press on the trackpad and feel it click, that’s feedback from an X-axis linear vibration motor as the trackpad has no moving part and does not physically click.

Powerful performance in a slim package

Typically, when you make a laptop thin and light, it comes at the sacrifice of cooling, and by extension, performance. However, HUAWEI has managed to find workarounds for these limitations on the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024.

Firstly, there are intake vents on both sides of the body, the front hinge of the screen, and the keyboard to channel cool air into the chassis. With air coming in from multiple sections of the laptop, heat dissipation has been increased by 37%.

On the inside, HUAWEI segmented the printed circuit board (PCB) into 3 sections which it calls Cloud Falcon Architecture. This unconventional design saves 8% more space than the previous generation.

Thanks to the additional space, the laptop now comes with larger dual Shark Fin fans that feature streamlined pressurised fan blades that follow the airflow path to smooth it out and minimise aerodynamic loss. As a result, system flow resistance has been reduced by 19%, allowing hot air to reach the exhaust vents more effectively.

With a beefier cooling system, the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 can be equipped with up to an Intel^® Core^TM Ultra 9 processor with Intel Arc graphics paired with 2TB of storage using an SSD and 32GB of DDR5 RAM.

There’s very little productivity software out there that can even stress this machine. For reference, the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 exported a 1:22, 1080p video on Capcut, 61% faster than the previous gen model.

System resources are also more intelligent allocated using HUAWEI’s proprietary Super Turbo technology which determines the running status of the CPU, GPU, memory, hard disk, and battery, and applies optimisation policies in conjunction with Windows to deliver higher performance more efficiently. Besides that, Super Turbo helps to boot up Windows within 10 seconds.

To help capture as much of the Wi-Fi signal as possible, Huawei has designed a 3D Metaline Antenna which achieves a wider connection range, more stable connections, and improved performance in weak signal environments.

Huawei claims the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 can achieve a connection range of up to 330 meters in open environments within a horizontal and vertical 360° range.

Time-saving software features

Work effectively and efficiently with time-saving software features on the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024. HUAWEI Share and HUAWEI Super Hub allow you to quickly transfer files between your HUAWEI smartphone or tablet and the HUAWEI MateBook X 2024.

It is also easy to work on your laptop and phone at the same time by mirroring your phone screen on the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 with HUAWEI Super Device. You can drag and drop files between devices and even run multiple mobile apps simultaneously in different windows.

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Stay mobile for longer

With a 70Wh battery providing up to 7 hours of typical usage as tested by HUAWEI, the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 will power through a typical workday.

But if you foresee yourself using the laptop unplugged for longer, the 90W SuperCharge charger can extend the battery life by up to 2 hours after a quick 10-minute charge. This is made possible using a patented dual-cell charging technology that places two independent charging integrated chips (IC) on the PCB.

Experience the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 today

The HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024 combines lightweight construction, a stunning display, a great keyboard, an accurate trackpad, powerful performance, and decent battery life so that you can produce quality work more efficiently.

If you’re in the market for such a machine, you’ll likely be impressed by the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2024. There are two options for you to choose from based on your needs: