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[Gearbest Review]In the era of mobile office, laptops play a particularly important role as productivity tools. In the past few decades, laptops have also been constantly evolving and subdivided into many categories, such as thin and light laptops, business laptops, gaming laptops, etc. to meet the needs of different users. Also a few years ago, mobile phone manufacturers led by Huawei began to aggressively enter the PC field, promoting a wave of intelligent changes in the traditional PC industry. Up to now, there has been a situation where brands such as Huawei, Xiaomi, and Honor are blooming. In the AI era, the PC industry will also usher in changes again.
On the evening of March 18, Honor held its spring flagship new product launch conference, officially bringing a variety of new products such as Magic6 Ultimate Edition, Magic6 RSR Porsche Design, MagicBook Pro 16, etc. Among them, MagicBook Pro 16 is also Honor's first AI PC product. It not only inherits the implementation of Honor's AI strategy in the PC field, but also is a new Honor's sword for the traditional PC industry and smart PCs from friendly companies in new forces. Next, I will take you to see what is so eye-catching about Honor’s AI PC, and why it makes consumers fall in love with it at first sight among thousands of PCs.
I vaguely remember the first laptop I bought when I was in college. It was positioned as a business laptop. Its appearance had nothing to do with being thin and light, and its performance was not outstanding. It contained every bit of my college experience in a thick shell. At that time, I actually had no idea about laptops. After graduating from college and working for a few years, I bought a thin and light laptop. It was also the first laptop made by Honor at that time, the Honor MagicBook. This product gave me a more systematic understanding of mobile phone brands and PCs.
Now when this MagicBook Pro 16 is placed in front of me, AI capabilities aside, I seem to be able to understand why Honor makes such a notebook. First of all, from the perspective of thin and light notebooks, they need to be thin and light enough to handle the mobile office needs of most office workers. As a 16-inch notebook (discrete graphics version), the MagicBook Pro 16 is about 17.9mm thin and weighs 1.86kg. It is difficult to find competing products of the same level on the market. In addition to being thin and light, MagicBook Pro 16 is also fashionable. It comes in two colors: night color and cloud color, one is stable and the other is elegant. It is a beautiful notebook that Honor has rarely seen in recent years, and fashionable people will also become the audience.
On the other side of thinness and lightness, the performance of thin and light products is often a shortcoming, and they are actually insufficient when facing some heavy-duty office requirements or gaming scenarios. Honor MagicBook Pro 16 also understands this need of users. It is equipped with Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 155H and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 independent graphics card. In HUNTER mode, the performance release can reach 140W, which raises its performance limit a lot. In this way, the heavy-duty office needs and heavy gaming needs of office workers can also be well handled. There is no need to have a separate gaming laptop or game console at home. It can be done simply with a set of e-sports keyboard and mouse.
It is worth mentioning that on the Honor MagicBook Pro 16, we can also see the shadow of the 2020 Honor Hunter gaming notebook V700, which will be inexplicable for old users. Although Honor has not updated the gaming notebook product for more than three years, this time MagicBook Pro 16 has applied some designs from the gaming notebook, which is a different kind of romance. I just don’t know if we will continue to make gaming laptops as a category in the future. We might as well look forward to it in the future.
Let’s look at the AI capabilities that Honor MagicBook Pro 16 focuses on. Through the collaboration between Honor and Intel, it has finally become a very interesting AI PC.
The first is Honor OS Turbo 3.0, which can carry out targeted scene recognition, issue high-performance policies, improve performance release, improve application startup by more than 20%, and improve import and export by more than 5%. For game scenarios, it can ensure optimal performance and improve game frame rate.
Next is the Magic AI Workbench, which consists of YOYO Assistant and Super Workbench. It is the final presentation of Honor’s AI capabilities on PC products.
This time, YOYO Assistant brings together three major functions: smart search, document summary, and intelligent recommendation. When we need summarized documents, we can directly send them to YOYO Assistant. The experience is indeed good, and the improvement of work efficiency is very significant.
The super workbench includes smart interconnection, global collection, Honor Notes, Honor Calendar, etc., which can help users better perform immersive work, and also allow for better implementation of multi-terminal collaboration. Some friends may be curious as to why the Honor Calendar is part of the super workbench. In fact, it is part of Honor’s people-centered super schedule. Honor devices can perform multi-terminal schedule synchronization. After integration, the mobile phone side uses AI large model cross-modal semantic understanding, behavioral feature learning, and fusion perception to provide users with important day reminders.
For more experience on the Honor MagicBook Pro 16, you can follow our review video.
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As an important part of Honor's people-centered all-scenario strategy, PC is a product that Honor must make and do well. In the past few years, Honor notebook products have served a large number of old users, and we can also see Honor’s flash of inspiration, and this new product is a milestone work of Honor’s realization of PC acceleration. Enabled by AI, Honor MagicBook Pro 16 has become the leader in performance among thin and light notebooks, and plays the role of thin and light among gaming notebooks. Of course, facing such a product, we cannot simply classify it as a thin and light notebook or a gaming notebook. It would be more appropriate to call it an all-round notebook.
Before the press conference, I also discussed this product with my friends. Some people may think that it is “mediocre”. As a thin and light notebook, it is not extremely thin and light, and the performance release of a gaming notebook is not thorough enough. But for me, this kind of moderate design can just meet the office and life needs of most people. Not everyone has two PCs to meet their own multi-faceted needs. A notebook in the middle allows the originally non-overlapping needs to intersect. When the two sides collide, it is the area where the MagicBook Pro 16, an AI PC, is best at.
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