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The Huawei MateBook D leads the pack for thin, light and powerful notebooks

When looking for a new notebook that offers great value for money, you’ll often go through a long list of options from some familiar names – HP, Acer, Lenovo and Asus. Should your budget be a bit larger, then Apple begins to factor into the equation, but in recent years a new player has entered the market – Huawei.

That’s right, the Chinese firm famed for its smartphones has been getting into the notebook business, and its latest offerings – the MateBook D 14 and D 15 – offer the tempting combination of value for money and premium performance.

So here’s why the new notebooks, which launched in South Africa earlier this month, are the go-to options for any cost savvy consumer wanting serious bang for their buck, with both the D 14 and D 15 retailing for R13 499.

Looking the part

The first aspect is design. At that price range you’ll be hard pressed to find a device that offers a metal chassis, with hardened and sometimes cheap-feeling plastic being favoured. That’s not the case on the MateBook D lineup, as both models feature a metallic design that looks and feels premium, while also being thin and lightweight.

Measuring 15.9mm and 16.9mm thin respectively, the MateBook D 14 and D 15 are svelte pieces of hardware that slip easily into any bag for the daily commute. At 1.38kg and 1.53kg too, the notebooks won’t feel like you’re lugging around something heavy and cumbersome when you’re on the go either.

Added to this is one of the best screen-to-body ratios in this segment. With the bezels around the display kept as slim as possible, it means greater immersion for when you’re enjoying content on the MateBook D series.

The D 14, with its 14″ display sports a 84 percent screen-to-body-ratio, while the D 15’s 15.6″ display serves up an even better 87 percent screen-to-body ratio, which again, are not the kind of numbers you’d normally expect at this scale of notebook spectrum looking at other competitor devices.

Peak performer

Looking at the internal components, things get a little bit more interesting, especially for those consumers in South Africa as Huawei has opted for AMD to provide the silicon powering these devices.

To that end the AMD Ryzen 5 3500U processors can be found doing the heavy lifting, with Huawei fitting a generous 8GB of DDR4 RAM to keep things ticking over smoothly. Onboard storage has not been forgotten about either, with both models similarly specced out with 256GB of PCIe SSD storage.

As such the MateBook D series not only ticks the right boxes that notebook users are looking for, they also ensure that you’re never left wanting in terms of the performance on offer.

This extends to the battery life available on each unit. The slightly smaller D 14 is the better of the two, providing up to 9.5 hours worth of use from a full charge, but the D 15 is handy in this department too at 6.5 hours of battery life.

Either way, Huawei has made sure that emergency visits to plug points are kept to a minimum while mobile, which is why these devices are perfect for those consumers wanting a device geared towards portability.

If you are on the lookout for a Windows 10-supporting notebook that is feature-rich, well specced and nice to gaze at, you’ll be hard pressed to find a better option than the recently released Huawei MateBook D series.

To find out how to get your hands on one, along with seeing what else Huawei has brought to market, head here.

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