HUAWEI MateBook D 15 - 15.6 Inch Laptop with FullView 1080P FHD Ultrabook PC (AMD Ryzen 5 3500U, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Windows 10 Home, Multi-screen Collaboration, Fingerprint Reader), Space Grey

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Your fingerprint is securely saved as the Huawei MateBook D 15 (2020) boots, and then used to log into Windows, so you don’t need to press it a second time. That’s not too bad, and would last you almost an entire work day, but there are some caveats that leave us slightly less impressed.

It’s a daft design whose only merit is to give other people an unimpeded view up your nostrils during Zoom chats.

The Wi-Fi module from RealTek doesn't support Wi-Fi 6 yet, but its performance is stable in our standardized test with the Netgear Nighthawk AX12 router, and there shouldn't be any problems in everyday use. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. I immediately found their reviews to be very comprehensive, and luckily, I've even had the chance of translating them since 2019. For that, you get a touchscreen, but it is heavier than the MateBook and has a lower-capacity battery. The AMD Ryzen 5 3500U is a decent enough mobile processor for day-to-day tasks, but the Huawei MateBook D 15 (2020) will struggle to do anything too strenuous.

FullView Display is a patented and commonly used term for HUAWEI products, referring to screens with a high body-to-screen ratio and reduced bezels.

Huawei has been steadily making quite a name for itself in the laptop space, despite being primarily known (in the West, at least) as a smartphone maker. All in all, it is quite average in terms of energy consumption when compared to all other devices with similar hardware that we have reviewed.

Huawei has become an established laptop seller (outside the US, at least), and last year its MateBook X Pro (2020) and MateBook D 15 (2020) both impressed -- albeit with a couple of caveats. In comparison with the competition from Lenovo, Acer, or Dell, the MateBook primarily looks much higher-quality thanks to the metal case. The Huawei MateBook D 15 (2020) comes in a single configuration with a quad-core AMD Ryzen 5 3500U processor, 8GB RAM and 256GB. Having written for a number of publications such as PC Plus, PC Format, T3 and Linux Format, there's no aspect of technology that Matt isn't passionate about, especially computing and PC gaming. At the beginning of the stress test, the TDP amounted to 30 watts, but then it quickly fell to 25 watts.If you're choosing for a dedicated gamer, check out high-end models with lightning fast processors and extra cooling capacity for optimum performance. HUAWEI MateBook D 15 is designed to relieve eye strain and vision fatigue, with TÜV Rheinland Low Blue Light and Flicker Free Certification 2. This allows you to connect a compatible Hauwei smartphone to the laptop by tapping the smartphone against the ‘Huawei Share’ sticker.

The screen is surrounded by impressively thin bezels, which keeps the overall size of the Huawei MateBook D 15 (2020) down, while also adding to that premium and modern look of the device.Unfortunately, RAM (8 GB) can't be expanded, which could perhaps become problematic in the coming years. That’s the highest score we’ve seen from an i5 processor and suggests that the Performance mode in Huawei’s PC Manager (which I used for the test) does what it says on the label. Therefore, we performed the following benchmarks and measurements using the default "Balanced" Mode and the Windows setting "Best Performance". As with the old model, the new D15’s drive is divided into 119GB “C” and 337GB “D” partitions, which seems rather pointless.