introduction

The rapid development of mobile Internet has boosted the innovation of digital products. It is no exaggeration to say that Apple's mobile phone is a handheld entertainment and communication terminal product arising from the mobile Internet. Thanks to the advantages of the ecological chain, various series of portable entertainment terminals, such as the iPad, have been derived. However popular it is in recent years, There are not so many ordinary people who know and use Apple products, and Microsoft was completely helpless in the mobile terminal market at that time, WP system failed in Saipan in the early years, and then lost completely to IOS. Even Android, a rising star, had to dump it too much. Even after the acquisition of Nokia, which had lost its momentum, it still failed to recover, and its performance was bleak. A few years passed, but soon Surface Pro 3 and Win10 appeared, and Microsoft finally found a breakthrough direction in the fields it was familiar with, which was the "World Top 500" In the era of mobile Internet, portable PC terminals with both entertainment and productivity will be a huge market.

Huawei is also obviously interested in this cake. After the ecological chain of mobile terminals such as mobile phones, tablets and watches has gradually taken shape, it has launched the Matebook 2-in-1 tablet notebook computer in a high-profile way, and has used the Internet thinking to intervene in the PC industry. Xiaomi said it took several years to put it into practice. Its first notebook product adopts the same high price strategy as Xiaomi's mobile phones in the past, and its low-cost appearance is copied, As well as simple hardware performance superposition, it seems more prudent, but facing a new product category that must require a familiar process, Huawei is more intelligent, turning a large tablet into a laptop, which not only gives play to its industrial advantages, but also extends its tentacles to the PC side perfectly. In fact, it is also an innovation.

If you say that Matebook is a laptop, don't forget that it is a tablet. If you say that Matebook is a tablet, you should know that it really has a notebook heart. It seems a bit ingenious, and it is also a bold attempt. But both Apple and Microsoft are winning the market through continuous innovation, Whether Huawei Matebook's innovation can ignite market demand may be seen from the product experience.

Simple and exquisite packaging, strong Huawei business style

After several years of baptism in the smartphone market, Huawei has gradually established a brand image that is good at business style, and has gained a high reputation worldwide. This launch of the Matebook, a portable two in one notebook computer oriented at business, is just a matter of expanding its own skilled operation to the PC industry, without any inexperience of a novice, But it gives people a sense of old ways.

The model evaluated is the m5 4GB+128GB Chinese champagne gold version. The packaging style is quite simple. The gilded font on the front of the box cover "should have been like this" looks very impressive. Whether it means that this is a product for business portable two in one book, we don't know. Huawei, as one of the world's top 500 companies, even if it has such ambition, Who dares to underestimate his lack of such strength.

The Matebook tablet and the two in one keyboard are packaged separately, and the overall style is consistent. From the energy efficiency level mark, we can see that this product reaches the extremely low level 1 energy consumption standard, and is printed with SOY Ink environmental friendly ink, which is worth advocating. The two in one keyboard is the standard configuration of the whole system, and there are other peripheral products to choose from, such as stylus and docking station. However, the recently purchased Bluetooth mouse is very considerate. After all, there are few machine interfaces.

The inner box of the tablet notebook package is divided into two layers. The upper layer is the host, which is wrapped with film paper for protection, and the lower layer is a small number of accessories, which are relatively small. The manual documents are also relatively simple, which is not as large as the traditional notebook. It is easy to associate with Huawei's mobile phone background, but in fact, this is the business portable positioning of the product.

The two in one keyboard is also protected by film paper, which contains independent product information and warranty card. The box cover is provided with a schematic diagram of the use of two support modes of the leather sleeve keyboard. A magnetic pen plug is attached to facilitate the storage of the stylus.

The quality of the products and accessories looks good, no obvious defects and problems are found, and the initial impression is very good. Because the machine uses USB Type-C interface, in addition to the 1.5 meter long USB Type-C charging cable and adapter, this product is also equipped with USB Type-C to MicroUSB data cable, and USB Type-C to USB interface OTG expansion connector. All connectors are protected by rubber sleeves, Matebook is equipped with leather case keyboard, which is the most standard daily configuration of Matebook.

The workmanship of the product is good, and the detail design reflects the positioning difference

As a high-end 2-in-1 tablet notebook, Matebook is not just a large tablet with leather case keyboard. Its product design concept is relatively trendy, and its workmanship details fully meet the quality of high-end products.

The tablet adopts a 12 inch 2160 × 1440 resolution IPS touch screen, with a PPI of 216. Although it is not as high as the Surface Pro 4 and MacBook, the difference is not too big, and the screen proportion is up to 84%, with the highest brightness of 400 nits. Compared with the Surface Pro and Macbook, the tablet has more advantages. The whole body is symmetrically designed. It uses an integrated aluminum alloy shell, and the champagne gold color is elegant and elegant.

The ultra narrow frame and ultra-thin design can greatly improve the portability of the product, reflecting Huawei's industrial design capabilities. Of course, Huawei will never say that it is thinner than the one yuan coin, but the fact is that it is there. The left and right sides are cut into bright edges through diamond cutting and CNC process, forming a transition to the plane. The upper and lower sides are smooth on one side, It looks more classy and feels good. It also inherits the excellent technology level of Huawei mobile phones. However, the logo on the body shows that the Matebook still belongs to the category of tablet computers. It can only be called a tablet laptop when it is combined with the keyboard cover, but there is no such category at present.

There is a 5 million pixel front camera on the top of the front frame of the fuselage for video calls. There is no rear camera. After all, taking pictures with such a large tablet is a tough job. This is a humanized manifestation of the difference from tablet computers. The small hole in the middle of the top side is a noise reduction Mic hole, and the same Mic also has a 3.5mm earphone hole on the side.

The top and side are equipped with a power button and dual speaker speakers, which support Dolby Sound Advanced Edition. The power button adopts the sun shading treatment, which is very delicate. However, when the machine is not used for a long time, pressing the power button will not immediately light up the screen, but will have to wait for a while. It is not clear why.

The whole machine only has a unique USB Type-C connection interface, which is located at the bottom of the right side of the body, which is more in line with the daily use habits. It is also easy to connect the mouse, docking station and other peripherals, but it is impossible to use other USB external devices when charging. Above the same side are volume keys and fingerprint sensors. The same design is also reflected in Huawei's tablet phones, However, it should be the first time to use it on a tablet laptop. The advantage of this design is that the front screen design is more coordinated, does not affect the overall beauty, and can also improve the proportion of screens.

It is easy to connect with the keyboard through the middle magnetic 7-contact keyboard connection base at the bottom side of the fuselage. In fact, as a notebook device, this contact can be used to connect more powerful keyboards or bases with multiple expansion interfaces. Although portable performance is sacrificed, many times the lack of interfaces will also affect efficiency.

The standard leather case keyboard is similar to most similar products, and the workmanship is good. The outer part of the leather case is made of brown leather, and its bottom is also equipped with a raised foot. The front of the keyboard is raised to improve the feel of use. It looks very attractive. The magnetic suction interface is large and firm. The keyboard is beige, with a layer of skin like coating on the surface, which is very comfortable to touch, The keys have a nominal key stroke of 1.5mm, but the feel is still soft. After the keyboard leather sleeve is folded, it is convenient to carry and can better protect the tablet.

From any angle, Matebook is very beautiful. The champagne gold body, brown leather case, beige keyboard, and ultra narrow frame are very harmonious. However, the keyboard does not look very resistant to dirt. The palm rest position is prone to stain the sweat on the hands and turn yellow.

The performance is not excellent, but the configuration is sincere

Matebook focuses on business and is small and portable. The model evaluated in this paper is HZ-W19, with Windows 1064 bit home version pre installed. In terms of hardware, it is equipped with an Intel Core M5 ultra low power processor, 4GB memory, 128GB solid state disk, and HD Graphics 515 core graphics card. In terms of configuration, its performance is average, but its price is also full of sincerity.

From the information detected by CPU-Z and AIDA64, Core m5-6Y54 processor has core voltage of 0.629V, dual core four thread, three-level cache of 4MB, CPU base frequency of 1.1GHz, core graphics card HD 515, 24 execution units, thermal design power consumption of 4.5W, adjustable maximum 7W, minimum 3.5W. It is a mid-range product of Intel Skylake-Y series 14nm process ultra-low voltage products, and its lower performance i3 processor.

This processor can accelerate up to 2.7GHz with a single core and 2.4GHz with a dual core. It can last 28 seconds at 9W power consumption and 2.44 milliseconds at 15W power consumption. Its core graphics card is HD 515 of the ninth generation architecture. It has 24 processing units, 300MHz base frequency, and can accelerate up to 900MHz. Its dynamic memory is 100MB. Its hardware supports DX12 and WDDM 2.0.

Through the AIDA64 test, the machine has a built-in 4GB LPDDR3 memory, a three-level cache of 4MB, an effective frequency of 1866MHz, and a timing of 14-17-40CR1. The speed of reading and writing data is about 25GB per second, and the delay time is 116.4ns. The overall performance is good.

Using the stability test tool built in AIDA64, pressure test the machine for 15 minutes. It can be seen that the CPU working condition continues at 100%, the CPU core temperature gradually stabilizes at about 50 °, and the SSD temperature basically maintains at about 40 °. The stability is good.

In terms of solid state disk, through the query of its number SD7SN6S128G1027, we can see that this SSD is Sandisk's X300 series, with continuous read and write performance of 520 MB/s, 415 MB/s, and random read and write performance of 73000 IOPS 40000 IOPS. Through the CrytalDiskmark test, we can see that in terms of file reading and 500MB file writing, this SSD is not much different from the nominal one, while in terms of 1GB file writing, it is average, but it is enough for daily use.

Although the Core m series CPU belongs to the low-end chip of the Core family, which is only one level higher than the Atom series, the overall performance of Matebook is not as bad as expected. It can be seen from Master Lu's score that although Matebook is positioned as a tablet notebook, its performance does not rank the bottom among PCs, reaching 80281 points, beating 70% of users nationwide. Its main advantages are in memory and SSD disks, Of course, Master Lu's evaluation is mainly about entertainment, but it also reflects from one side that the performance of Matebook is no problem for daily use. Next, we will test Matebook with more professional software.

In the scores of CINEBENCH R15, its OpenGL scores 34.86fps, outperforms GeForce GT 620, but is lower than 650, and its CPU scores 126CB. This score also better reflects its actual performance position.

3DMARK test, Sky Diver scored 1735 points, more than 6% of the test subjects. In fact, during the test, they can obviously feel the pressure of the graphics card. The average frame rate of the two parts of the graphics test is only 7.45FPS and 8.12FPS. If you want to play large 3D games with Matebook, I'm afraid the effect will be very impressive. Let's forget it.

In the PCMARK test, when OpenGL acceleration is enabled, Matebook scored 2568 points, which exceeded 24% of the test results. In the test, the maximum CPU frequency reached 2.4GHz, which did not squeeze out the nominal maximum value. However, in terms of sorting out, it was also a good result. Daily office applications should be competent. From this point of view, this flat laptop is sincere in its configuration as a productivity device.

Real business machines, productivity is more than just talk

No matter what the score is, the use experience of the computer should be based on reality. As a tablet laptop with business orientation, how will the productivity perform? Let's see how the Matebook performs from the actual use of various applications.

When it was first started, the CPU load and utilization rate were very low. The memory occupation was 1.5GB, and the system was very smooth.

After several Word tables, PPT slides, drawing boards and other software were opened, the CPU speed reached 1.94GHz, the fluctuation of utilization rate also increased significantly, up to 100%, and the occupied memory increased from 2.1GB to 2.5GB. However, the system was still used smoothly, and there was no obvious jam in use.

Close the office software, open the web page to watch the video, and you can see that its CPU utilization rate also remains high, and the memory occupation has reached 2.5GB, but the system is also smooth. At this time, continue to open 13 web pages, and the system memory occupation has reached 3GB. The CPU occupation rate fluctuates more. Occasionally, the system software will get stuck when switching.

Close the web page, open Photoshop CS6, and open 10 2K images at the same time. The loading time is about 9 seconds, which is not bad. The system memory occupation also reaches 3GB. The CPU occupation rate will increase depending on the PS processing operation. The main frequency speed reaches 2.6GHz, and there will be a slight jam during the rendering operation, but it is not unbearable.

In terms of video playback, we chose the beautiful roast duck and the double manpower dance to test. From the test results, the beautiful roast duck has a bit rate of 32M and a file size of 855M, while the double manpower dance has a bit rate of 23M and a file size of 487M, which is just a TS file. In actual playback, the beautiful roast duck plays smoothly, and there is no problem with drag and drop. The double manpower dance has a higher CPU utilization and memory occupation, Although the playback is smooth without jamming, drag and drop will be stuck, which shows that the system player has more difficulty in decoding TS files.

Finally, let's take a test that is closer to daily life, and open multiple Word Excel、PPT， Browse 3 web pages, open PS to edit 10 picture files, open the drawing board to edit pictures, and use QQ to chat. Compared with the programs opened in normal work, this is not less, but the system is OK, except that the memory occupation reaches 3.5GB, The CPU utilization rate depends on the running program reaching 100%. At this time, it is slightly stuck. It seems that the multithreading processing of m5 is not so bad, at least for daily use.

After tossing about for hours, The back of the Matebook is already a little hot. Although the graphite heat dissipation design is used, it will be difficult to use the flat panel mode at this time. Using HWMonitor to detect its status, we can see that the CPU temperature is up to 59 ℃, the power is up to 6.67W, and the CPU frequency is up to 2.7GHz. All data are within the normal range, and the stability of the equipment is quite good.

Functions are diversified, but there are still some drawbacks

From the above test under the simulated daily office use environment, it can be seen that this tablet notebook is fully adequate for business use. After all, this kind of computer is not brought to play 3D games. In addition, this tablet notebook has some features in use, but there are also some shortcomings.

As it is a tablet notebook, the Matebook has only one external USB Type-C interface, so it needs to use USB HUB for expansion when using it, so that it can connect the mouse, USB flash disk and other devices at the same time, but it cannot be charged at the same time. It is also a pity that basically all the required extenders can be equipped, but it is difficult to find those with centralized functions like the manufacturer's docking station.

The measured standard keyboard of my sister has a general feel, which is mainly due to the soft keyboard cover. However, it is still more convenient than using a soft keyboard, and it has backlight, etc. It can be automatically turned on through the light sense, and the brightness can be adjusted. It is very beautiful and practical at night or in dark light environment.

In the tablet mode, many people worry that the edge is too narrow and will be touched by mistake. In fact, this worry is totally superfluous. At least, this problem has not been encountered in the process of evaluating girls' use. Like most tablets, this product can also use the standing mode. It's really not too pleasant to watch something.

The number of applications in the Win10 built-in store is still too small. Many popular applications on Android and IOS are not available. They wanted to try the King's Glory, but they did not. The Wild Speed Racing 8 and dungeon hunters have not finished the next day. After thinking about the heat, they stopped. This product is not oriented to games, However, Microsoft really should invest more in the construction of resources, otherwise the good foundation laid by Win10 platform may repeat the mistakes of WP.

However, in the face of the huge number of games under Windows, Bug can't help but try it. After downloading LOL and playing a few, it's painful to play with a leather keyboard. However, under the default special effects, the frame rate can reach about 40 Very smooth There is no jam at all. It takes about 40 minutes to play, and the back heat is about 40 ℃. Of course, in the notebook mode, it basically does not affect the experience. If it is in the tablet mode, it takes a long time i 'm afraid There will be slight discomfort.

The protective sleeve can adjust the angle of the screen, but there are only two gears. The first gear is about 60 °, and the first gear is about 70 °. The magnetic attraction is pretty good, but the middle connection is very flexible, and it is a bit soft on the knee. My sister has worried about falling the Matebook for several times, and can't play happily. The surface design is more stable, but the appearance of the Matebook is higher.

The size of the 12 inch tablet is a little smaller than that of the 16 open magazine after storage, and is not much larger than that of the iPad Air2. The case is easy to put into the briefcase. It is also full of business style and easy to use.

Using MateTrans to connect to the mobile phone APP can realize one click Internet access and file sharing. Mobile phones are not limited to Huawei brand. It is a very convenient function for business personnel who need to work in outdoor mobile offices. In addition, the consumed mobile phone traffic can be seen at any time on the computer. In addition, the built-in mobile phone file sharing function can still transfer data to each other without a data line, However, the interaction with other smart terminals, such as smart watches, bracelets, and even other smart home products, needs further construction.

The battery capacity of Matebook is 33.7Wh/4430mAh, which is relatively small for notebook products, but the built-in power saving technology looks good. Through testing, its power consumption is shown in the above diagram. It can be seen that daily use is good, and the tablet notebook will automatically enter the sleep mode when not in use to save power, Generally speaking, under the automatic brightness setting, the general frequency of use such as office and HD video playback can reach about 7 hours. If it is set to low brightness mode or tablet mode, the battery life may be longer. In terms of charging time, Matebook supports 5V2A/9V2A/12V2A fast charging, which can be charged in about two and a half hours, and can be charged with mobile phone and tablet chargers.

summary

As a novice in the notebook industry, Huawei Matebook's release is really surprising, but many people only see that the performance of the product is average and the price is high, but in combination with the product's positioning, Matebook The performance of Huawei Matebook fully meets the requirements of daily Internet operations, the application of office software series, simple image processing, and general business portable use. In terms of price, ordinary consumers have less stringent requirements for business portable use, and naturally feel that the price is higher. For business elites or urban white-collar workers who pursue taste, Huawei Matebook, regardless of its brand, Quality is a good choice.