Huawei guns for Apple with Mac-alike Matebook X Huawei won't unveil its new P20 flagship phone until the end of March, so it used MWC to showcase an envy-inducing laptop, the Matebook X. The Chinese giant is clearly gunning for Apple, which has irked its core customer base by adding gimmicks, removing ports and messing with the keyboard. So are Microsoft (Surface Laptop) …
You'd also think a professional journalist wouldn't contradict himself in the same paragraph.
"Huawei used a more powerful Intel M core rather than the parsimonious U core because it reckons its battery and power technology is sufficiently superior to anything else on the market. The model I saw under embargo last week boasted an i7 8550U part at 1.8Ghz."
Which is it? U or M?
Just like software written by professionals has bugs, articles written and edited by professionals have errors from time to time. It's fixed.
As for the Intel U/M thing. It's a Kaby Lake R Intel Core M part, but has a U in the part name. Because Intel.
From the official spec sheet, the 8550U is a Kaby Lake R part as opposed to a Kaby Lake U or a Skylake U.
Chipzilla's naming of stuff drives me bonkers.
C.
Teslas really do contain laptop batteries - or at least, cells. The sooper-advanced hiteck battery pack is just a metric gajillion lithium 18650 cells - just like in your laptop. (see article here)
Other electric car manufacturers actually made new automotive Li cells. Nissan for example.
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Key question for any review:
How well does it run a typical Linux install? For example my Thinkpad E565 despite being on the approved Ubuntu list, has no support for the weird internal broadcom card (and needs an ugly USB thing stuck in the side due to BIOS whitelists), which apparently is major issue with some newer Lenovo machines (seems the quality fade and cost cutting is kicking in - they get approval with one card, then swap it out mid-cycle on the same model).
If this machine has full hardware support, it would be top of many people's list now Lenovo are jumping the shark. But we need to know for sure (and also have some guarantee that the manufacture's are not going to try the quality fade trick and change the spec without telling anyone).
Yet my works t440p is the worst laptop I've had the misfortune to use... (seriously trying to convince the P.T.B. to let me use my ancient x200t which is far more capable and a much better typing machine) bleh...
On the other hand, the better halves aging VAIO is...well barely functioning so might just have to treat her so long as it can last 5+ years.
needs an ugly USB thing stuck in the side due to BIOS whitelists
Whoever thought this was a good idea and justified it by saying "but the FCC..." outside of the US needs shooting with their own excrement. I'm yet to see a laptop running any wireless NIC that can exceed 20dBm ERP with the stock damp string in the lid, yet their "approved" Broadcom 43xxx thing can be fitted with a yagi on a pigtail quite easily and will then end up non-compliant.
No, it's nothing to do with wanting to restrict spares to overpriced OEM crap, is it? Bastards.
weird internal broadcom Is the bane of your existence if you use linux. Hell there is no guarantee it will work right on any thing les then the newest version of windows when it was released . Under Ubuntu I had a broadcom wired nic disconnect and reconnect every 30 seconds. I have them work right under windows 7 then puke on 8/10
weird internal broadcom Is the bane of your existence if you use linux. Hell there is no guarantee it will work right on any thing les then the newest version of windows when it was released
Hear hear.
I suppose one could reduce windows to minimal Virtualbox (or whatever your chosen virtualisation solution is) host if the hardware proves not to play nice with Linux or BSD natively. Not ideal of course but sometimes needs must.
Because it doesn't come with Mac OSX, but with increasingly annoying windows.
Unless Apple is selling Mac OS for it or Linux Mint + Mate is perfect on it, it's nearly pointless.
Also Lenovo's online agent for Ireland (Invoice is from Shannon) refuses to honour 2 year SOGA and will only refer replacement queries to wrong Lenovo technical support or even IBM UK.
I'm not buying Lenovo again till they start implementing Irish / EU law on sales. What is Huawei SOGA retail sale compliance in EU like?
@Mage - what was all that about?
Mac clone? Of course it doesn't come with OSX its not made by Apple. Article was talking about the hardware.
Annoying Windows? Writing this on a windows/linux machine that hasn't annoyed me since I switched it on (windows) and doesn't come with thhe Apple idiot tax.
Linux - fairly sure it will work - apart from the auto screen rotate when I put this Lenovo Yoga in tablet mode then everything else works perfect under both Ubuntu and Mate. Fairly sure Huaweis stuff will be much the same.
I feel your pain if Lenovo aren't honouring law - go to a small claims court - you will be back with your money in no time. Would work the same for Huawei.
I feel your pain if Lenovo aren't honouring law - go to a small claims court - you will be back with your money in no time. Would work the same for Huawei.
You missed the whole point, good manufacturers have good service ... expecting you to have to go to a small claims court when something goes amiss with the kit is piss-poor service, I would even go as far as qualifying it as fraud. I am slightly excessive? Basically, it means the company is betting on punters either to not know what the law says ortoo busy to go through the hassle of a small claims court..... iow BASTARDS (ala John Cleese)
Companies like that DO NOT DESERVE ANY CASH not until they figure out how to provide adequate service.
Centred camera would be best, but top of screen is "better" than bottom.
A high camera angle above eye level will emphasise the face which helps people appear slimmer, however a low camera angle below their eye or chin is not very flattering for most people. You end up looking up their nostrils, and the body appears larger than the head and face, which is generally not desired by most people.
Get a laptop desk stand and I'm sure the angle thing would become less of an issue (and at least it can be angled separately to the screen. Nothing quite like angling a screen so you can be seen whilst only being able to see some glare off a light or the day star etc etc...)
That angle will also make it look like you are looking down on anybody at the other end.
Just as I intend.
That nincompoop from management better learn his place.
OTOH, the size of this camera does not make me feel safer about being spied on. One realizes how small these are...
Does anyone even use the camera? Seems like a waste of space on a laptop to me. I must have webcammed for any constructive purpose (couple of job interviews) about 3 times ever. And the job interviews I used a USB webcam as the laptop cam made me look very very very scary . . .
Much easier to and better to pull a usb cameera out of the drawer / bag when its needed.
Guess people mileage varies . .
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