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GSMARENA recently reviewed and posted the full review of HONOR MagicBook View 14 and below is the their review. There is no doubt that MagicBook View 14 is one of the most beautiful and powerful Windows Laptop available in today's market which is quite visible with this review too.
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Full Review : GSMARENA : Honor MagicBook View 14 review
https://www.gsmarena.com/honor_magicbook_view_14_review-news-52678.php
Introduction
Last September Honor debuted its MagicBook View 14 in China powered by Intel’s 11-gen Core chipsets, NVIDIA GeForce MX 450 GPU and running Windows 11 out of the box. The same laptop (minus the dedicated graphics card) came to Europe later in Q4 and we are finally ready to give you our impressions after a test period where this reviewer used the MagicBook View 14 as his sole work machine for over two weeks.
Coming from MacOS to a Windows 11 laptop took some getting used to at first and while I am not fully converted to make the switch just yet Honor certainly made an appealing ultra-portable which covers all the major pillars of a good laptop - premium build, good screen and keyboard, decent performance and ample battery endurance. Should this be on your shortlist or are you better off with other similarly sized compact laptops?
Design, display, keyboard
MagicBook View 14 features an aluminum unibody design weighing just under 1.5 kg. The laptop is 14.5mm at its thickest point and all this translates to an easy everyday carry that fits any normal-sized backpack. Our review unit comes in the sleek Space Gray color, but Honor is also offering a more eye-catching dark blue option. One premium mark that always deserves praise is when you can open up the laptop lid with just one finger and I can gladly report this is the case here.
The star of the show is the 14.2-inch LTPS LCD touchscreen with its 2520 x 1680 pixel resolution, 90Hz refresh rate, and a 3:2 aspect ratio. The taller aspect ratio is a welcome productivity facet allowing for more vertical content on the screen which is handy if you rely on two side-by-side windows like a browser and word editor or are constantly digging through excel sheets. The panel is made by TCL’s Huaxing Optoelectronics and bears the MNE208UA1-1 part number.
Viewing angles are great with no noticeable shift in contrast. For color rendering, the display aims for 100% sRGB and 72% NTSC coverage. Honor claims 400 nits of brightness output and we measured a maximum of 405 nits, which is plenty for indoor use and usable outdoors too though the glossy surface is not ideal for this scenario.
Performance
The base variant MagicBook View 14 comes with Intel’s 11-gen Core i5-1132H Tiger Lake-U processor while the higher end model we have brings a Core i7-11390H. The laptop comes with a 35W balance mode which draws less power and offers quieter operation. If you need more power you can enable the 45W performance mode (Fn+P) as we did during our benchmarking tests. Note that you need to be plugged into the power adapter for the high-performance mode.
There are four Willow Cove cores, each with two threads and a base frequency of 3.4Ghz in the 45W performance mode which can turbo boost up to 5Ghz when you only need a single-core. You get 12MB level 3 cache on the Core i7 chip and a regular TDP of 35W.
Let’s talk about benchmark scores. Starting off with Geekbench 5 - MagicBook View 14 manages 1,548 single-core points and 6,118 points on the multi-core test. A comparable AMD Ryzen 7 5800H would fare 8% worse off in the single-core test but would make up for that in the multi-core department with a 20% advantage over the Intel chip.
MateBook View 14 comes with 16GB dual-channel DDR4 RAM and a 512GB WD SN730 PCIe NVMe SSD. Read and write performance here is respectable with 3,400 MB/s sequential read and 2,700 MB/s write speeds. A cold boot up takes just 10 seconds and Chrome remains responsive even with over a dozen tabs open.
Software
This is the first laptop we got with Windows 11 Home out the box and it’s a bit polarizing. The interface looks familiar yet feels dramatically different compared to Windows 10 and I found myself looking for certain UI elements in the wrong place more than once. Microsoft made some advancements in touch input recognition and the whole UI feels noticeably more touch-friendly which is a welcome addition.
The new personalization menus layout and detailed options are great as is the system-wide dark mode. The snap assist tool allows you to manage up to four apps on your screen without moving your cursor all that much. It took me a few days to get used to the new start menu and I didn’t make much use of the new widget panel but then again I wasn’t a fan of its live tiles predecessor either.
The new default apps settings are an unnecessary pain and if you want to set a third-party browser as your default you have to go through the process of selecting that one to open individual file types from HTML to HTTPS which just takes a needless amount of time. Despite some shortcomings, I found Windows 11’s refreshed visual identity a welcome change and had no issues with stability or performance.
Battery life and charging
Honor managed to fit a decently sized 60Wh battery inside the MateBook View 14. The battery is rated at 15 hours of local video playback at 1080p resolution and 150 nits brightness and 11.7-hours of mixed usage again at 150 nits brightness. In our testing which consisted of playing a 1080p video in YouTube over Chrome with 75% screen brightness at 50% volume, we got 6 hours and 56 minutes which is quite respectable.
Honor is bundling a 65W USB-C SuperCharger that weighs 200 grams with the detachable USB-C cable included making it super convenient for traveling with one single charger for all your devices. Interestingly enough, you can charge the laptop via either of the two USB-C ports at the maximum 65W speeds. A full charge took 104 minutes with the laptop reaching 80% after an hour on the charger.
Verdict
With its MateBook View 14, Honor managed to reach an impressive mix of power and portability at a price point that is hard to be rivaled by competitors. Better yet some bundles include an Honor 50 smartphone which makes this an even sweeter deal if you can snag one up. At the moment the laptop is limited to China, Russia, Belarus and France where it retails for €1,099. There’s even a bundle that lets you get the Honor 50 for just €400 extra.
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