On April 20, 2022, Huawei held a new product launch conference for Huawei's terminal commercial use, officially announcing the renaming of the consumer business as the terminal business, fully exerting efforts in the commercial office field, integrating the commercial product matrix, and forming a perfect commercial product line. It aims to bring customized and scenario-based solutions to the government and the six major industries of education, finance, energy, manufacturing, transportation, and medical care, empower the development of the industry with Huawei's commercial service ecosystem, and bring a different professional experience to the majority of commercial users.
In the post-epidemic era, the demand for digital transformation of domestic enterprises is still strong, and with the slowdown in the demand for the epidemic in the consumer PC market, the commercial market is making up for the position, and to a certain extent, it has seized the share of the consumer market. In its report at the end of 2021, IDC, a market research and analysis agency, mentioned that the pace of digital transformation in the mainland commercial market is accelerating, and the number of technology-based enterprises is also growing. In the long run, digital-driven and digitally native enterprises, led by small and medium-sized enterprises, will drive the growth of the commercial market. With the digital transformation and the need to work anytime, anywhere is further upgrading, more and more companies are gradually abandoning the traditional office desktop and choosing to equip employees with thin and light notebook products. Huawei's choice to enter the commercial field at this time is of great significance.
As an important category of commercial product matrix, Huawei's commercial notebook B series is also freshly baked. This article will provide an in-depth review of the new Matebook B7-410, let's take a look at how to become a qualified business notebook.
Thin and light business convenient to accompany
Huawei's MateBook B7-410 is positioned as the flagship ultra-thin business book, and it is also the first commercial notebook product in Huawei's terminal business. The design of Huawei's MateBook B7-410 continues the design aesthetics and quality pursuit of Huawei's high-end notebook products as always.
At first glance, users are often amazed by its thinness and compactness. In terms of size, Huawei MateBook B7-410 is a 14-inch thin and light commercial book, with a body size of 304×217×14.6mm; In terms of weight, the weight of the whole machine is only 1.33kg. Huawei has a lot of experience in "making equipment thin and light", whether it is mobile phones, tablets, smart screens or PCs, thin and light is not only the trend of industry development, but also the design style that Huawei has always adhered to.
The thin and light body makes every business trip simple. Whether it's a men's briefcase or a women's satchel, the 14-inch body size fits in nicely. The weight of 1.33kg is basically equivalent to two and a half bottles of bottled water, whether it is a business trip or meeting customers, or even one-handed holding during the conference explanation is effortless. The 150g fast charging head is the Type-C interface, and if the user happens to be a Huawei mobile phone user that supports the super fast charging protocol, it can further reduce the weight of the business travel plum.
The compact design of the Huawei MateBook B7-410 is reflected in every detail. Adopting the increasingly mainstream full-screen design, a 13.9-inch screen is put into the 14-inch body, and the pursuit of professional performance does not sacrifice the core attributes of portable productivity tools.
If thin and light is the necessary pursuit of Huawei's MateBook B7-410 as a commercial book, then excellent aesthetic design is another key attribute of its adaptation to commercial scenes. Business style is what commercial office equipment should pay attention to, different from the young and trendy consumer products, the elite sense and elegance of modern business office have been fully reflected in Huawei MateBook B7-410.
Huawei MateBook B7-410 is clearly positioned in the high-end professional population, the shape adopts the design concept of "Pure & Invisible", the whole machine adopts aluminum alloy integrated molding, and the CNC drilling and cutting process processes the lines are clean and clean but do not cut hands; Both the screen assembly and the fuselage structure are very strong and not easy to deform.
Saying that Huawei MateBook B7-410 is "exquisite" is more due to the treatment of the surface of the fuselage. The machine adopts precision ceramic sandblasting process to ensure the visual effect while taking into account the user's touch and realizing the skin-friendly texture. The wrist rest part feels very good when typing, and using a notebook can also be a pleasure.
Input and output Fusion from vision to extension
Due to the consideration of the needs of commercial users, Huawei's MateBook B7-410 pursues the harmonious unity of function and design at both the input and output ends, and meets the pain points of commercial users to the greatest extent.
The importance of the screen to notebook devices is self-evident – it's the most important component that users need to keep an eye on every day. In the modern commercial office scenario, the screen not only needs to bear the heavy responsibility of display, but also be responsible for interaction.
As mentioned earlier, the screen of Huawei's MateBook B7-410 adopts a four-sided narrow border design, and the screen ratio is as high as 91%. The inevitable condition for achieving this compact structure is Huawei's accumulated screen design and stacking technology on mobile phones and tablet devices. Huawei introduced the LTPS screen to the Huawei MateBook B7-410, realizing a narrow-sided large screen in an ultra-thin space, bringing a wider field of view.
The quality of the screen will greatly affect the user's office experience. When we have a large enough field of view, we naturally want to understand the quality of the screen. Huawei Matebook B7-410 adopts an LTPS screen resolution of 3000×2000, which is also the classic 3:2 ratio of Huawei MateBook series, compared to 16:9 screen, it can display more vertical content at the same length, which is very advantageous when browsing information, editing documents or Excel sheets.
The measured screen is capable of covering 97% sRGB color gamut with a contrast ratio of 1310:1. This is measured at 100% brightness in the usual indoor office environment; When setting "Automatically adjust brightness when light changes", like some well-lit outdoor office scenes, the screen excitation brightness can reach a typical value of 1500:1. The average screen ΔE is only 0.56, the color is very accurate, and the color display is accurate when the user is working on some graphics tasks or watching videos, while displaying more details.
After using the Huawei MateBook B7-410 for a while, I felt that the screen of this commercial book not only has excellent quality, but also has a unique interactivity that ordinary notebook devices do not have. The screen supports ten-point touch, providing more convenience and possibilities for multi-scenario applications for commercial users, especially in the process of multi-device collaboration, clicking and dragging are more in line with the user's subconscious operation choices. On this screen, in addition to basic touch, users can also take screenshots by three fingers down, and the device supports automatic recognition of text, converting text to make the work more efficient.
In addition, the keyboard of Huawei MateBook B7-410 is comfortable, the key range is moderate and rebounding, the input experience is very good, and the two keyboard backlights are convenient for users to work in low-light environments.
In addition, the power button also integrates fingerprint recognition, which is convenient and quick to unlock with one key. The trackpad is large enough, and it can be clicked all over the world, and the feedback is sensitive, which can be included in the first echelon of "The Windows Notebook Device with the Best Touchpad Feel".
Like the MateBook devices launched by Huawei in recent years, the Huawei MateBook B7-410 integrates HUAWEI Share into the trackpad area, and users can use the mobile phone NFC to touch the area to achieve collaborative interconnection, which is convenient and fast. The specific interconnection operations will be discussed in detail in the later section.
Huawei MateBook B7-410 designed two 40Gbps type-C interfaces on the left side, supporting two-way data transmission, charging and screen expansion, can be connected to two external 4K displays at the same time, and can also reverse the phone in the shutdown state, which is equivalent to a large charging treasure when going out to work; The audio interface is preserved, and a USB-A interface is designed on the left. Perhaps for thin and light commercial books, the full-featured C port can be expanded enough, and the external docking station is also very convenient.
Ease of operation Core configuration office worry-free
Huawei MateBook B7-410 is equipped with the 11th generation Intel Core i7-1165G7 processor (also available in the i5-1135G7 version), positioning itself thin and light while maintaining professional performance. In terms of specifications, the i7-1165G7 processor adopts a 10nm SuperFin process, 4 cores and 8 threads, the main frequency is 2.8GHz, the maximum turbo frequency is 4.7GHz, and the TDP is 28W. The Matebook B7-410's i7-1165G7 processor PL1 is designed to be 15W and the PL2 is designed to be 60W.
Here we compare the i7-1165G7 with the previous generation i7-1065G7 to understand the improvement of this CPU. We used CPU-Z, CineBench R15, R20, R23, 3D Mark, PC Mark 10 and other software to test the MateBook B7-410 As shown in the chart.
The CPU-Z running score shows that the i7-1165G7 has improved compared with the i7-1065G7 single-core and multi-core, of which the multi-core performance improvement is particularly obvious. On the CPU-Z performance ladder list, the i7-1165G7 single-core on the Huawei MateBook B7-410 can be comparable to the i7-11800H, and the multi-core score is also close to the i7-11370H.
Combining the results of the CineBench III test software, the i7-1165G7 single-core performance is a small improvement, about 10%-12%, the main improvement lies in the multi-core performance, the three sets of tests show that the i7-1165G7 multi-core performance is 20%-25%. This is useful for multitasking and complex tasks on devices, making it easy for users to multitask at the same time.
In the Geekbench 5 running score test, the i7-1165G7 scored a single-core 1473 points, a multi-core 4550 points, and the single-core score has been able to surpass the 8-core 16-thread i9-9900KS, and the multi-core score is slightly weaker than the desktop-level i5-9400F.
Another important improvement of the i7-1165G7 is in the nuclear display. The new Ruiju Xe graphics card is significantly improved in graphics performance compared to its previous generation of integrated graphics, and even comparable to some entry-level unique displays. With 16GB of LPDDR4 3733MHz memory, the speed is fully guaranteed, and the graphics performance is sufficient to cope with some graphics processing tasks in the office.
In the 3D Mark test software NightRaid project test, the i7-1165G7 graphics card received a high score of 15809, which is enough to show the strength of this core display.
We use PC Mark 10 software to simulate the user's actual office work, and then derive the performance of the device in the face of tasks such as Office software, video conferencing, browsing the web, etc. In the office benchmark, the Huawei MateBook B7-410 received an overall score of 4752 points, including a productivity score of 6531 and a photo editing score of 8318.
In the special Office software test, Huawei Matebook B7-410 scored 10354 points, which performed well in Excel and PowerPoint software;
In the pc Mark10 Extened test with higher load and richer projects, Huawei's MateBook B7-410 also tested the operation of game programs while other basic projects remained stable, and the light load of some online games was also controllable.
Overall, Huawei MateBook B7-410 in response to basic office software, Internet browsing, video conferencing are not urgent, in the sharp torch Xe nuclear display of the blessing, Huawei MateBook B7-410 can also undertake certain graphics processing tasks, all the equipment appearance pictures in this article are using Photoshop in this machine retouching.
Battery life and heat dissipation: the details that multi-scenario commercial offices have to mention
The diversification of modern commercial office scenarios and the diversification of office tasks continue to promote the evolution of commercial notebooks to thin and light, and thin is bound to bring at least two aspects of trade-offs, one is the balance between performance release, heat dissipation and body volume, and the other is endurance. Modern mobile offices make it difficult to find charging sockets at any time during the complexity of tasks, especially when traveling or meeting customers.
Considering the compactness and thinness of the fuselage, the Huawei MateBook B7-410 is still cautious about the adjustment of the CPU. PL1 to 15W, commercial office users do not have to worry at all, which is also the engineer's comprehensive consideration of the fuselage structure and heat dissipation.
System stability test, room temperature 20 °C single copy FPU 30 minutes later, Huawei MateBook B7-410 processor power consumption remains at about 15W, frequency 2.2GHz, temperature 66 °C.
The hottest place on the surface temperature of the keyboard appears near the R and T keys, basically around 41 ° C, the temperature of the WASD key area is basically around 35 ° C, the temperature at the wrist rest is lower, and the device does not have to worry about the use of the keyboard when running under high load, and the temperature is very suitable.
In order to achieve the appropriate operating temperature, Huawei's MateBook B7-410 is equipped with an intelligent dual-fan cooling system, which upgrades the number of lobes of the shark fin fan from 40 to 73, greatly increasing the air volume; In order to take care of the thin and light of the equipment, Huawei MateBook B7-410 is also blessed with air-cooled ultra-thin VC cooling technology to achieve a thinner thickness than the heat pipe, and the temperature equalization effect is better, further improving the heat dissipation capacity of the equipment.
The increase in air volume does not make the office noisy – for commercial customers, a quiet environment is necessary. Shark Fin dual fans are quiet enough to dissipate heat efficiently, and when the power is fully turned on, the human volume is only 36.5dB, which means that users can completely fully power consumption in the library, and it will not affect themselves and others.
In terms of battery life, Huawei's MateBook B7-410 has a large battery of 56Wh stuffed in the thin and light fuselage. Measured in the 50% screen brightness, "best energy efficiency" battery planning and Connected WiFi settings, in the PC Mark 10 office scene endurance test, Huawei MateBook B7-410 endurance time of up to 10 hours and 10 minutes, which means that even if there is no fast charge head, users can also cope with the day's office needs without stress; In some long-term meetings and out-of-office scenarios, long battery life and low power consumption bring more advantages to Huawei Matebook B7-410 users.
Collaborative interconnection All-scenario smart office ecological access
From the consumer side to the commercial end, Huawei has built a complete all-scenario intelligent ecosystem. Huawei's multi-screen collaboration breaks through the physical barriers between hardware such as tablets, mobile phones, PCs, and smart screens from the bottom of the system, realizing seamless collaborative operation, data transmission, and multi-screen control between multiple devices, and enabling file circulation and interconnection between tablets and mobile phones. At the same time, the newly released printers, tablets, smart screens and other devices have also achieved synergy and interoperability, which is very helpful for commercial users to improve office efficiency.
The use of mobile phones on PCs has long been implemented in the Huawei ecosystem. On the Huawei Matebook B7-410, users can interconnect the phone and the PC by simply touching the NFC area of the Huawei mobile phone, and then they can use the multi-screen collaboration function shared by Huawei. Users can choose to transfer pictures, documents, etc. on the phone to Huawei Matebook B7-410, or they can choose multi-screen collaboration to make the phone appear on the PC screen, with the help of the touch screen to achieve the same operation as on the phone, open the mobile phone application, drag and drop the file to the document in the edit, etc., convenient and fast.
If the user needs, you can also let the Huawei Tablet C5 become the extended screen of the Huawei Matebook B7-410 to expand the office screen space; Select the synergy mode, which allows you to use a set of keyboards and mice to operate the PC and tablet, further improving work efficiency.
For printers, the Huawei MateBook B7-410 can connect with the new commercial printer PixLab B5 by simply installing the PixLab B series Huawei print plug-in, and then it can be printed in various forms, making full use of Huawei's perfect commercial office ecosystem.
Write at the end
Throughout the testing process, we can easily find the characteristics of Huawei's commercial notebook Matebook B7-410 - quality, intelligence, and reliability, which is the best embodiment of the DNA of Huawei's terminal commercial products. In addition to the detailed test content in the article, Huawei MateBook B7-410 also supports Wi-Fi 6 networks, providing stable and fast network connections; A carefully tuned speaker system delivers excellent audio performance for easy video conferencing or leisure time... Whether inside or out, the Huawei MateBook B7-410 is an outstanding business notebook. In addition, Huawei's commercial notebooks also have MateBook B3 and B5 series products, and friends who have needs for commercial notebooks may also wish to pay attention to it.
Huawei MateBook B7-410 is not only a product in Huawei's commercial office field, but also an important part of Huawei's commercial product matrix. With the comprehensive layout of Huawei's smart terminals in the commercial field of the whole industry, Huawei will also provide all-scenario intelligent support for all walks of life in the face of comprehensive digital transformation and accelerated digital collaborative development, bring innovation and experience to related fields, and continuously lead industrial development and industry digital transformation.