Honor unveiled its flagship laptop, the MagicBook Pro 16 at MWC 2024.
The laptop, Honor's first AI-enabled PC, will go on sale in China imminently and the rest of the world will receive it in the second quarter. What sets it apart from the competition for now is the fact that its base configuration is, by any measure, surprisingly robust, making it a good candidate for a business laptop.
Engineers opted for an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor, avoiding AMD CPUs in that particular model. Then there is 32 GB of LPDDR5 memory soldered with a 1 TB (replaceable) SSD and an Nvidia Geforce RTX 4060 GPU equipped with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory.
Waiting for the price tag
The other surprise is the inclusion of a 16-inch, 16:10, 3072 x 1920 pixel display with 500 nits brightness, a 165Hz refresh rate, and an e-book mode that's easy on the eyes and on the battery. . It is not a touchscreen model, but it offers almost 3 times the screen resolution of a Full HD screen. As for battery life, Honor claims that the 75Wh battery can run for up to 10 hours using the popular PCMark 10 benchmark.
The rest of the spec sheet is more than adequate: there's Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.1, a fingerprint sensor, a dedicated numeric keypad, six (yes, six) speakers, six ports, and plenty of holes for air circulation , but there is no memory card. The reader and charger are brick-type instead of a fancy GaN one.
There are two color combinations available (white and purple) and, at less than 1.9kg, it's reasonably portable for a device with a large screen and a dedicated graphics card.
As for pricing, a quick look at Dell's website for a similar configuration turned up a Dell value for money. -portable money around. I've contacted Honor to learn more about pricing and to see if there will be other variants, presumably with a lesser configuration and a lower price.
A few words about the large number of services that Honor offers or will soon offer. These include the ability to search for images and photos locally, as well as summarize documents, both using the built-in NPU in the Intel CPU and the artificial intelligence capabilities of Windows 11. When paired with an Honor smartphone, you can also manage your phone at through the laptop and use it as a portable webcam, something that brings it closer to what Samsung and Apple can achieve.
The Honor MagicBook Pro 16 is aimed at a wide audience and creative professionals, developers and freelancers may want to keep an eye on what the sticker price will be. Will you make it to our buying guide for the best laptop for photo editing? Stay tuned!
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