Beyond MacBook Pro and iPad Pro!? The contents of the new notebook PC and tablet announced by HUAWEI are too amazing!

HUAWEI is known as a manufacturer that offers smartphones with excellent performance and usability at reasonable prices. In recent years, smartphones cannot be equipped with "GMS (Google Mobile Service)", so they are forced to struggle.

Such HUAWEI announced that it will introduce a wide range of new products that can be said to be “other than smartphones” to the Japanese market at about the same time. This time, we will introduce new notebook PCs and tablets that can be expected to be active in the business scene.

Two models of notebook PCs with 11th generation Intel and tablets with 120Hz displays are now available!

HUAWEI's newly released notebook PCs are the "HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2021" and "HUAWEI MateBook D 15" models. Both will be products equipped with 11th generation Intel.

On the other hand, the newly released tablet will be one model of "HUAWEI MatePad 11". It is a product that can be expected to have high display performance, such as high resolution on a large screen like a mobile notebook PC and support for 120Hz refresh rate.

HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2021 is the highest grade product in HUAWEI's notebook PC series, as it bears the name "Pro". The built-in CPU is the 11th generation Intel Core i7, the memory is 16GB, and the storage is 1TB.

The display performance is distinctive, and the approximately 13.9-inch display has a resolution of 3000 x 2000 and 3K image quality. The screen occupancy rate is high at about 91%, and the edges of the display are barely noticeable.

The aspect ratio is 3:2, which is taller than traditional laptops. I usually use a notebook PC with a 3:2 display, but it is easy to use because it can display websites and software such as Word long vertically.

The display supports touch operation, and is equipped with a function that allows you to take a screenshot by tracing with three fingers. The power button has a built-in fingerprint authentication sensor, and the in-camera is stored in the keyboard.

In addition, this model has two microphones on the side of the touchpad, in the direction of the user's body. As a result, it is said that sound can be picked up firmly even from a distance of about 5m, so video conferencing can be done comfortably.

It will be released on July 13, 2021, and the selling price on the official website is 274,780 yen.

HUAWEI MateBook D 15 is also a notebook PC with 11th generation Intel, and Core i3 model and Core i5 model will be released. The display is a large screen of about 15.6 inches and the aspect ratio is 16: 9, which is close to a general notebook PC. The resolution will be 1920×1080.

The screen occupancy rate is also high at about 87%, and the point is that it has a variety of interfaces such as one USB Type-C, three USB Type-A, an HDMI port, and a headphone jack.

Both models have 8GB of memory, but the Core i3 model has 256GB of storage and the Core i5 model has 512GB of storage.

The selling price on the official website is 84,800 yen for the Core i3 model and 119,800 yen for the Core i5 model.

As a tablet product, "HUAWEI MatePad 11" will be released. The display size is about 10.95 inches, which is about the same size as a mobile notebook PC, so it can be used comfortably as a portable terminal in the business scene.

The display resolution is 2560 x 1600, and the screen occupancy rate is about 86%. In addition, since it supports a refresh rate of 120Hz, it has high performance that we recommend not only for business use but also for entertainment content such as videos and games.

The speakers are quad speakers with Harman Kardon tuning. As a new HUAWEI tablet series, functions such as using it as an extended screen of a HUAWEI PC and mirroring from a PC to a tablet have been added.

The OS is Harmony OS, which is manufactured by HUAWEI, and the CPU uses the Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 chip, which was often used in high-end smartphones released in 2020. The memory is 6GB and the storage is 128GB.

The selling price on the official website is 54,780 yen, the "HUAWEI Smart Magnetic Keyboard" that can be used as a keyboard by attaching it is 15,180 yen, and the touch pen "HUAWEI M-Pencil 2" is 12,980 yen. increase.

Interview / Text / Fumihiko Sato