Or if you are a developer, a thin and light is a waste of money. Go with a Latitude or T series ThinkPad with proper thermal headroom to make your compiles complete faster.
The issue I have there is that for a lot of web devs a thin and light is perfectly fine as long as the one core can turbo for ~30s-1 minute, which is usually fine for Intel's Tau.
If you are a 3D or video production professional, or if you work from home, you should probably reconsider buying a laptop and get a much more powerful desktop. Get a Chromebook or refurb laptop as companion.
And for video production, then I'd be looking more at hardware encode/decode on the device, most should be perfectly fine as long as they have those.
On to the article:
However, the MateBook X Pro has a significant size and resolution advantage, with 13.9-inches of real estate and 3,000 x 2,000 (3K) resolution compared with the 13.3-inch 1,920 x 1,080 display of the Spectre x360.
Pretty sure the x360 has a 4k option. And imho, 4k is overkill on a <14" laptop, I don't understand why 1440p is so difficult.
Furthermore, its 458 nits brightness is much higher than the 278 nits on HP’s panel, which means it is better suited for use in heavily-lit rooms and under sunlight.
Really? You picked the 1W 1080p panel or the 2W privacy panel to compare to, plus those figures are definitely wrong. The 1W 1080p is ~400 nits peak, the privacy one is 300 nits peak, and the 4k is 400 nits sustained.
What about color gamut, sustained brightness, etc.
At the R34,999 price-point, the MateBook X Pro features a Core i5-10210U processor, while the Spectre x360 gets the i7-1065G7 chip.
However, the MateBook X Pro has double the amount of RAM, which means it may perform a little better in multitasking scenarios.
Just no, the i7 1065G7 is built on Intel's 10nm process, it has a better IPC, and on average it's about 10% faster than the i5. Unless you are limited by your RAM it won't make a difference, and someone buying a 10-25W CPU is not really going to care about it.
Also not sure why MyBB didn't go through the options, here is a 4k screen with 16GB of RAM on HP's South African site:
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Also notice the 1TB SSD?
Battery capacities are rated at around 60Wh and provide enough power for a full day of use between charges.
Just no, if someone is going with the 1W panel option they're going for longer battery life, just saying one day won't work. Go with the 4k option then with comparison if it's the same class of user.
The problem with this article is that it's completely one sided and doesn't care about the perspective of the user, this sounds like a Huawei sponsor piece or is completely incompetent, probably a mix of both. Either do it properly or don't do it at all.
And no, it's not because I don't like Huawei, their Matebook's are actually really good devices, e.g. the Matebook X 2020 has a really nice trackpad, first pressure sensitive one, this is pretty much the first true Apple equivalent trackpad, report on something like that rather than this low quality garbage. Could have pulled a proper spec sheet and spent an hour on it and written a better article.
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