Huawei’s laptop lineup hasn’t changed much over the past few years, at least not physically. Sure, the processors have been updated, but if you place the 2019, 2020, and 2021 models of the MateBook 14, MateBook X Pro, or MateBook D15 side by side, you’ll find it hard to tell which is which.
However, the MateBook 14s is a new product rather than an update of an existing model, with fewer Huawei features and new screen specs. Huawei MateBook 14s review: What you need to know
Huawei MateBook 14s review: Design and build qualityI’ve often criticized Huawei for its lack of risk-taking in design. Over the past four years, each subsequent model in its laptop line has looked very similar to the one before it. Its bloody refusal to abandon to the ridiculous placement of the webcam beneath the fake function keys is another stick with which I repeatedly beat it. Thankfully, the winds of change are blowing in Huawei’s design department, because while the MateBook 14s bears a strong family resemblance to the MateBook X Pro and MateBook, etc. Huawei MateBook 14s review: Keyboard, touchpad, and webcamLike the chassis, the keyboard deck is very solid, with barely any flex even when you poke the center. It has precise, clean 1.5mm action and two-level backlighting, although it’s a little dark even at the brighter setting.
The touchpad, on the other hand, is large and generally flawless, with satisfying clicks. While the extra key between F6 and F7 hides the pop-up webcam found in other Huawei laptops, here it launches Microsoft’s voice recognition software, which I found more useful. I found myself dictating text more often than usual thanks to this handy feature, and the laptop’s four noise-canceling microphones did an excellent job of picking up what I was saying, no matter how much background noise there was.
Speaking of webcams, the MateBook 14s’ 720p camera is pretty poor in terms of video quality, but it at least supports Windows Hello IR recognition, and if that’s not your bag for biometrics, there’s also a fingerprint scanner built into the power button.
Huawei MateBook 14s review: Performance and Huawei MateBook 14s battery lifeInside the Huawei MateBook 14s, you’ll find the Tiger Lake Core i7-11370H processor, which we’ve already seen in the Asus TUF Dash 15 and Acer Predator Triton 300SE. It’s a quad-core component with a maximum clock frequency of 4.8 GHz, which strikes a good balance between power consumption and efficiency.
Expert Reviews’ internal media benchmark score of 178 puts it on par with leaders like the Apple MacBook Pro with M1 and the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 with AMD Ryzen 7. In Geekbench 5 testing, the MateBook comes in a close second. It also performed reasonably well on ourLenovo Yoga Slim 7batterydrain test, lasting 11 hours and 8 minutes. That’s shorter than the Lenovo’s 15 hours and 40 minutes, but better than the Razer Book 13’s. In our performance tests, the MateBook 14s was put into performance mode, which increases the processor TDP to a maximum of 45W and makes the fans more powerful.
Huawei MateBook 14s battery test, it was put into Balanced mode, but with the screen refresh rate set to 90Hz instead of the less power-hungry 60Hz. You can switch between refresh rates simply by pressing Fn+R.
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