Huawei Matebook X review (fanless Intel Core, 3:2 display)
Over the years, I’ve greatly appreciated those ultrabooks that could run silently with daily use, with video streaming and text-editing and even browsing. Very few can, though, and most that can are actually fanless and passively-cooled implementations. However, passively cooling current mid-range ultrabook hardware platforms in compact designs is a lot more complicated than it sounds, and that’s why the vast majority of available fanless laptops ran on lower-performance hardware, with a lesser or greater toll on the everyday experience, and limited abilities in sustained loads. With that in mind, here enter the Matebook X 2020. Earlier this year Huawei announced their updated late-2020 MateBook X series, a passively cooled 13-inch ultrabook built on an Intel Core U hardware platform. A 10th gen Comet Lake platform, so not the latest available at this point, but even so, it sounded promising for a casual-use premium ultrabook, especially since the MateBook X al...