Honor MagicBook Pro: Leak confirms the notebook

Despite the US trade ban, Honor is likely to be working on its own notebook. This is to be called Honor MagicBook Pro.

Evan Blass was once again active and posted drawings on Twitter that are supposed to show the alleged Honor MagicBook Pro. When I look at the above graphic, I am reminded a little of the Razer blade 15 remind. This notebook also has thin display bezels and a speaker grill on each side of the keyboard. The power button, which presumably also functions as a fingerprint sensor, is located in one of these grids. We already know that from Huawei MateBook X Pro and the Huawei MateBook 13 (2019).proPos display: According to Evan Blass, this is 16,1 inches.

Image: Twitter / Evan Blass

You can also see that the webcam is located under one of the keys on the keyboard - we know this from the MateBook X Pro - and that Honor has implemented an NFC surface for Huawei Share. I described the latter in the review of the Huawei Matebook 13. Only the fans can be seen on the underside. Blass also mentions some of the laptop's specs: the Intel Core i5 as the processor, the Nvidia MX250 as a graphics card, eight gigabytes of RAM and 512 gigabytes of SSD storage. The leaker does not mention prices.

Honor MagicBook Pro: Disadvantaged by trade ban?

I fear that Honor will encounter some problems with the MagicBook Pro. As everyone knows, Huawei and Honor are struggling with the trade ban imposed by US President Donald Trump. This means that no US company is allowed to have business relations with the two Chinese companies. This means that Huawei will no longer be allowed to use the official Version of Android put - unless it comes a trade deal Even though Evan Blass thinks Honor has the necessary components for the MagicBook (processor, graphics card and similar things) in stock, I don't think that will work out well in the long term. It remains to be seen whether Honor will surprise me and others.