When you talk about classic moments of digital product launches, what is the first thing that comes to mind? Is it a bunker in 1999?
Or is it a long way ahead?
Anyway, what impressed me the most was the image of Steve Jobs taking out the MacBook Air from the brown paper bag, and it was a big shock to me when I was young at the time.
On the other hand, the digital products released in recent years, there are fewer and fewer disruptive innovations, most of the updates are either lackluster, or they are on the tip of a single function, and even the appearance of the product has begun to become homogeneous, covering the LOGO Sometimes it is impossible to distinguish which product it is. It's very disappointing, I always feel that the current technology circle is becoming more and more of a backwater. I saw this not long ago...
I feel like it's back, it's all back!
A new generation of digital hardware equipped with AI models is here.
Although the AI part is the top priority of the Huawei Matebook X Pro this time, as a thin and light business laptop, its use experience at the basic level cannot be ignored, so here is a brief introduction to you.
The Matebook X Pro we experienced is equipped with an Ultra 9 185H processor, 16 cores and 22 threads, compared to the previous Core processor, in addition to the heavily advertised AI upgrade, the improvement in basic performance is not small. In terms of CPU, this Matebook X Pro has a single-core 1565 and a multi-core 13522 on Cinebench, which is about 20% higher than the previous generation of 1360P processors.
The improvement of the GPU is even more "pleasantly surprised", after finally replacing the old Iris, the new Arc core graphics performance has almost doubled, and it has run a score of 3517 points in Time Spy.
Coming to the "Genshin Impact Launch" link, at a resolution of 1080P, it can almost achieve full special effects and stabilize 60 frames. Even further improved to the screen itself's native 3180*2080 resolution,In online games such as League of Legends and Valorant, it can also achieve medium and low special effects144Frame of Operation,Although it is far from e-sports,But considering the positioning of its own thin and light book,It is enough to run full of the 120Hz refresh rate of the screen that comes with it。 Not to mention that the above performance is achieved in this body that weighs less than 1000g.
Speaking of the "thin and light" body, this is also another highlight of the Matebook X Pro. Huawei has really put a lot of effort into achieving the weight of "100 grams" that can be clamped with these two fingers. In addition to the selection of thinner body materials, the unique "Cloud Falcon Architecture" also contributed to it.
The core difference between it and traditional laptops is that the original motherboard is divided into three parts according to different functions. The central motherboard in the middle integrates core modules such as CPU and memory, which are responsible for the main computing functions, while the small boards on the two sides carry audio and charging-related hardware, respectively, and are responsible for these relatively more detailed functions. The gap between these three motherboards, which was "stolen" by Huawei, was filled by larger fans and higher-capacity batteries.
At the same time, the screen part has also been upgraded from the previous IPS to a smaller flexible OLED, which further improves the space occupancy while ensuring that the display level does not decline. After these few steps, the actual effect we can see is that the Matebook X Pro is thinner and lighter than the previous generation, and the performance release has also been improved, the measured single-baked FPU can be stable at 40W, and the CPU temperature is also controlled at only 80 degrees, and the body temperature in the keyboard area is not even as high as that of flagship mobile phones.
After talking about the user experience, let's talk about the most exciting update point this time - AI.
In fact, with the explosion of the concept of AI,Basically, this year's new notebooks will package themselves with the concept of AIPC,You can search for notebook products that are basically equipped with the new Ultra and call themselves AIPC,But unlike friends,Matebook X ProCompared with these products that use Intel's general solution, it has its own unique advantage,That is, its own Pangu model。
The function on the Matebook X Pro that really uses the Pangu large model is called AI minutes. You can think of it as a summary processing system for complex information, by inputting different audio and video content, it will automatically transcribe it into text for you, and generate the corresponding content summary through the Pangu model in the cloud.
It can be used in two different ways, one is to collect real-time voice through the microphone, and the other allows users to manually upload audio and video files by themselves. I think part of the greater significance of this real-time voice transcription lies in the meeting or classroom scene.
From my actual experience,The first thing I must boast about is that its semantic understanding and generalization function is really powerful,I tried to use it to record a topic selection meeting of ours,The content of this meeting itself is actually very imaginative,We talked about several topics from the latest development of robots,To the recent new product launch,To the new breakthrough in genetics and the combined application of psychology and AI,Almost completely unrelated fields。
But judging from the synopsis it generates, it basically fully understands the implications, and there is no strange correlation between the several topics. In addition, the generated abstract content also gives the core key information of different topics such as first, second, second, and final according to the discussion process. The keywords that were automatically summarized were also perfectly in line with our discussion at the time.
As for the way to manually input audio and video files, here I put the video of last month's Huawei HarmonyOS ecosystem conference, if you have seen that press conference, you can check the quality of the content generated by this AI summary.
How's that, isn't it quite reliable?
However, although the summary given by Pangu is very usable, in the text transcription part, I still have some problems with my experience, one is that the accuracy of the text recognized by the microphone is average, and the level is about the same as that of WeChat speech-to-text. In addition, audio and video input and transcription require a certain amount of processing time, and the two 10-minute or so videos I tried only took about 1 minute, but Huawei's one-and-a-half-hour press conference, it took a full 15 minutes, and if you want to really incorporate it into the productivity process, then this time is still a bit long.
Except for this AI minutes of Pangu's participation, the other AI features of the Matebook X Pro are not so unique. A large number of built-in cloud AI functions in the AI space can be replaced with a computer that can access the Internet normally, as long as you open the corresponding web page.
Huawei is actually equivalent to an integration here,The built-in Wenxin Yiyan,The experience is exactly the same as the web terminal,When you use it, you still need to log in to Baidu's account,And 4.0Dialogue also needs to open a member,It's just that Huawei saves you the steps of going to the web search,And give a lot of subdivision functions such as"Copywriting master""Programming expert"One-click direct entrance。
Of course, in addition to these cloud functions, the Matebook X Pro also has AI applications on the device side, such as their cooperation with Filmora for joint tuning, and functions such as AI cutout now support calling Ultra 9's NPU, which further improves performance.
In general, the Matebook X Pro's improvement this time is all-round, on the one hand, the new mold almost brings the thinness and lightness to the end; On the other hand, regardless of the internal performance release, the screen and battery life performance of the Matebook X Pro have followed up with its own large model algorithm in the AI era while taking into account the performance, as a thin and light business laptop positioned at the office level, the performance of the Matebook X Pro is almost the benchmark level outstanding.
But aside from the product itself, I would like to talk to you about the concept of AIPC and its possible future development.
As a compound word, in my opinion, the combination of AI and PC is actually a bit of a huddle for warmth at this time. Because at this moment, both AI and PC are facing difficult problems to solve.
The problem with large-scale AI is that it is difficult for operators to afford operating costs. For example, ChatGPT, which everyone is most familiar with, costs millions of dollars just to train once. Nowadays, more and more people are replacing search engines with GPT-like large models, but its running cost is estimated to be almost 3-4 times that of traditional search engines. It is conceivable that if there is no significant cost reduction in the future, or the expansion of other revenue channels, then large model AI will always be an experimental product.
Although they can refer to the cloud game business model to charge a certain amount of operating expenses, the fee must be accompanied by a decline in the number of users, so in addition to continuing to develop a small model with higher accuracy, embracing the device side and adopting the device + cloud solution is almost their only development route at present.
The problem with PCs is that after Moore's Law gradually fails, when performance development really reaches a bottleneck, if there is no other feasible development route, then it can only wait for death, which has been confirmed by the continuous shrinkage of global PC sales in recent years. And the emergence of large models just gives the development of the PC an opportunity to change. In the future, in addition to rendering and display, the GPU of personal computers may also participate in AI, and PCs will be more subdivided into two categories: gaming/productivity PCs and AIPC.
Even further, the form of the PC may change in the future, and our traditional input devices such as mouse/keyboard may become voice and gestures, and the output devices may or may not be limited to traditional monitors, XR glasses, 3D projection, and so on.
On the one hand, giants like intel need to keep up with the pace of the AI era, and on the other hand, traditional notebook manufacturers also need a new marketing point, and the birth of AIPC coincides with these two needs. In essence, you can say that this thing is just a NPU into the CPU, but it is just a marketing, but I have to say that this is indeed one of the few correct paths for the future development of these two parties.
Although the current AIPC is still in a relatively early stage, with the construction, competition and integration of major manufacturers in the future, it is certain that a unified interface or standard will eventually be formed. Judging from the current news, intel, Apple, Qualcomm, etc. have actually focused on their own AI layout, and the future AIPC will be a scuffle.
Perhaps the concept of AIPC may be silent in the future, but just as the graphics card was initially considered useless, it will eventually become a must-have productivity tool.
AIPC is a revolution, but it is still in the early stage of technological development and ecological construction, maybe what you see now are gimmick products, but who can say that the future of change products will not be born from them?