On May 15, at Huawei's summer all-scenario new product launch conference, the new generation of Huawei MateBook 14 was officially released.
The all-new Huawei MateBook 14 is mainly aimed at newcomers and college students, and its exterior design has been comprehensively upgraded, with a new field green color scheme to show a youthful and energetic atmosphere.
It's worth mentioning that for the first time, it comes with a 2.8K OLED touchscreen, which is usually only found in flagship laptops, making the picture quality clearer and more vivid.
Despite being positioned as a thin and light notebook, the Huawei MateBook 14 doesn't make any compromises when it comes to performance. It is powered by the new first-generation Intel ® Core Ultra high-performance processor, capable of delivering up to 40W TDP.
Huawei accelerates the popularization of notebook 2K screens
In recent years, notebook screens have undergone a revolutionary evolution, with the popularity of 2K resolution screens being particularly significant. From 768p to 1080p to 2K, this process has gone through more than a decade of development, and Huawei has played a key role in promoting the popularization of 2K screens.
Looking back at 2019, the first generation of the MateBook 14 was already equipped with a screen with a resolution of 2160x1440, which was in stark contrast to the 1980x1080 screen that was common on the market at the time. High-resolution screens provide users with a better visual experience, with sharper, more detailed images and sharper text edges. The new Huawei MateBook 14 increases the screen size to 14.2 inches and boosts the resolution to 2880x1920, a 77.8% increase in the number of pixels in almost the same screen area compared to the previous generation.
In addition to resolution, the screen ratio is also an important factor in the office experience. The new Huawei MateBook 14 continues to feature the critically acclaimed 3:2 screen ratio. Compared to the traditional 16:9 or 16:10 aspect ratio, the longer portrait aspect increases productivity by showing more content and reducing page flips and swipes when browsing documents, web pages, or graphic video editing.
Another highlight is that the new Huawei MateBook 14 is not only upgraded to a 120Hz refresh rate, but also supports adaptive refresh rate adjustment, which can be intelligently adjusted between the three gears of 48~60~120Hz, achieving a perfect balance between image quality and energy consumption.
For example, when the user is playing a game, the screen automatically adjusts the refresh rate to 120Hz to provide a smoother picture. When the screen is still in standby, the refresh rate is maintained at 48Hz to reduce power consumption.
The H series standard pressure processor is blessed with the upgrade of thin and light laptops to high performance
In the field of thin and lightweight, high performance is often difficult to achieve due to the limitations of body size and heat dissipation conditions. As a result, many manufacturers have launched the Air and Pro notebooks, with the former being thin and light but relatively weak, and the latter being powerful but bulky.
However, since its launch, the Huawei MateBook 14 has made it both thin and light as its core design philosophy. For example, the first-generation Huawei MateBook 14, launched in 2019, is equipped with a Core i7 processor, making it unique among thin and light laptops.
The MateBook 14s, released in 2021, goes one step further and is directly equipped with the H-series standard pressure processor, which has CPU performance comparable to some gaming laptops, while the body remains extremely thin and light: only about 16.7mm at the thickest point and weighs only 1.43kg.
This year's new Huawei MateBook 14 continues this concept, with a high-performance standard processor as standard, and the highest configuration is Intel ® Core? Ultra 7 processor for up to 40W TDP performance.
As we all know, the Core Ultra is the first product of Intel's new architecture, with the all-new Meteor Lake architecture. In addition to the CPU and GPU, it also integrates an NPU (Neural Network Processor) to make local AI applications run more efficiently.
In terms of graphics card configuration, the new Huawei MateBook 14 is equipped with a new Intel ARC graphics card, which is comparable in performance to entry-level discrete graphics cards, fully meeting the needs of daily audio-visual entertainment.
In addition, the new Huawei MateBook 14 is also equipped with up to 32GB of ultra-large memory, and adopts Super Turbo technology, which realizes functions such as fast boot, second-fast boot software, and super fast charging.
Powerful performance requires a powerful cooling system to ensure stable operation. The new Huawei MateBook 14 uses dual fans to achieve heat dissipation that is incomparable to thin and light laptops of the same size.
It is reported that the realization of this heat dissipation effect is due to Huawei's years of technology accumulation in mobile phones. By adopting PC motherboard miniaturization technology, the motherboard and components are miniaturized and customized to create a larger heat dissipation space.
Thanks to the attention to detail, the new Huawei MateBook 14 achieves powerful performance while maintaining a light weight of 1.31kg and a thickness of only 14.5mm.
Industry-leading AI intelligent functions, practical and easy to use
2024 is the first year of AI PC, and with the strong rise of AI PC, a large number of obsolete computers will face the fate of obsolescence. According to Canalys' latest forecasts, global AI PC shipments are expected to reach 48 million units in 2024, accounting for 18% of total PC shipments. However, this is only the beginning of the market transformation. It is estimated that by 2025, the shipment of AI PCs will exceed 100 million units, accounting for 40% of the total PC shipments.
The core feature of the AI PC is its integration of AI-specific accelerators, such as the Neural Processing Unit (NPU), which will unleash new features in terms of high productivity, personalization, and energy efficiency, revolutionizing the entire PC market.
In fact, before the concept of AI PCs, Huawei has been deeply engaged in the AI field for many years, and is committed to building a new smart office experience. In 2022, Huawei launched the "Super Terminal", which uses revolutionary distributed technology to achieve seamless collaboration between PCs and devices such as mobile phones, tablets, earphones, and smart screens, ushering in a new era of PC intelligence.
For the first time, the all-new Huawei MateBook 14 supports AI profiling capabilities. It is based on Huawei's Pangu L0 basic model, which is a Chinese pre-trained model with over 100 billion parameters, which incorporates a large amount of scene data and fine-tunes the model to form a scenario model that provides users with summary capabilities.
In addition, the all-new Huawei MateBook 14 also supports advanced AI experiences such as AI Insight, AI Audio, Smart Voice, and Smart Search, making AI PC not just a concept, but a productivity boost that users can actually feel.
Taking the "Smart Search" function as an example, users can type in the search box the content keywords they want to find, and when the mobile phone is connected, they can see the relevant content of the PC and the mobile phone or tablet on the interface at the same time, which is very efficient.
The notebook has opened the era of high configuration, which is the new standard configuration
The increased performance of AI PCs will undoubtedly drive up their prices by placing higher demands on hardware such as chips, storage, batteries, and cooling. At present, the average selling price of AI PCs is more than 10,000 yuan, which is significantly higher than that of traditional PCs. However, the all-new Huawei MateBook 14 is still in a reasonable price range, so that more ordinary consumers can also experience the charm of AI PCs in advance.
In addition, the new Huawei MateBook 14 was released along with the Huawei Wireless Mouse (2nd generation). The mouse has three colors: brocade white, ink blue, and nebula gray, and supports starlight connection, which is 4 times more anti-interference than 2.4G connection, and is more stable in complex environments; It supports a sensitivity of up to 12000DPI, and supports four-level DPI adaptive adjustment, retouching, editing, gaming, and office, free control, and a smoother experience.
The new Huawei MateBook 14 starts at 6099 yuan. When you buy the new Huawei MateBook 14, you can use convenient services such as new machine reclamation, nationwide warranty, and free repair. In addition, the HUAWEI Care+ 3-year term can be purchased with the new device, including 3-year 2-time accident protection, 1-year extended warranty, and 3-year 1-time battery refresh service. System problems, PC Manager one-click detection! In addition, you can call the hotline for free remote desktop access assistance, and you can connect immediately! There is also a free system reinstallation at the store, a one-stop renewal!
The launch of the all-new Huawei MateBook 14 marks that Huawei continues to lead the trend of popularizing the high-end experience of notebooks, and opens an era in which high configuration is the new standard configuration.