We love the Honor MagicBook Artwork 14 – it is slim and feather-light, and it has a beautiful OLED show with a Goldilocks 14.6-inch diagonal and three:2 facet ratio. And now we lastly get it with an ARM-based Snapdragon X Elite processor.
When we reviewed its Intel Core 7 Extremely 155H-powered sibling, we concluded that it is a fantastic laptop computer, however it might be higher in Snapdragon guise, primarily for its improved battery life. Nicely, it has been just a few months, however the wait is over and we lastly get to check that speculation.
We received the Starry Grey mannequin this time (not the Inexperienced one) however it ships with the identical 65W charger and USB-C cable. On the time of this text, the Snapdragon mannequin has a single 32 GB RAM and 1 TB SSD configuration that is €1,700 however you may declare a €200 low cost with a coupon on Honor’s web site, making it a really compelling €1,500. You additionally get an Honor Pad 9 8/256GB and Honor Earbuds X6 White free of charge.
Half of the story with the MagicBook Artwork 14 Snapdragon is the processor (heck, it is within the title). It is the Snapdragon X Elite X1E-80-100 with 12 bodily cores, 42 MB of complete cache, a 3.4GHz multi-core frequency, and a 4.0GHz peak clock pace. Solely two configurations of the X Elite are extra highly effective – the X1E-84-100 and X1E-00-1DE – however it’s largely a distinction in peak clock pace – one is 4.2GHz, and the opposite is 4.3GHz – not that important.
The Starry Grey mannequin has a silky easy texture – the alternative of the tactile and grippy Emerald Inexperienced Intel-powered mannequin we reviewed. This is the Snapdragon mannequin pictured subsequent to the Morandi Blue MateBook X Professional 2024 with the Intel Core Extremely 9 185H.
The Honor has the higher hand in display measurement – 14.6-inch vs 14.2-inch on the Huawei.
The Honor MagicBook Artwork 14 Snapdragon and the Huawei MateBook X Professional 2024
The opposite large factor with the Honor MagicBook Artwork 14 Snapdragon is the physique. The laptop computer weighs only one.02kg with a virtually 15-inch OLED show. In perspective, the 13-inch MacBook Air is 1.24kg and the 15-inch one is 1.51kg.
The OLED show of the MagicBook Artwork 14 is phenomenal – 3120x2080px, touchscreen, help for 100% DCI-P3, and an marketed peak brightness of 700 nits.
Honor has achieved a slim bezel throughout the display by transferring the digital camera out of the best way. It sits in its personal magnetic holster on the left aspect of the laptop computer and snaps onto the highest when wanted.
We’ll be again with a full evaluation of the MagicBook Artwork 14 Snapdragon in January!
