HONOR MagicBook 14 - 2021 review

Today we are going to see is the new 2021 Honor Magic Book 14 which comes with the tagline for this is powerfully compact. Honor Magic Book 14, which obviously is a marketing spiel but it's pretty on point because it's quite thin and light. It weighs just 1.38 Kg. It's a hair under 15.9 mm thick and also. Honor Magic Book 14 comes with the brand new or the very latest Intel 11th gen processors either the i5 or the i7 paired with up to 16 GB of ram and up to 512 GB of storage, so a very nicely specced laptop that is reasonably portable as well and crucially not too expensive, so this starts for the i5 with  8 GB of ram and 512 GB storage for just £799.  The biggest upgrade is the fact that these 11th gen processors come with Intel's Iris XE graphics which is up to twice as fast as their previous integrated graphics. With the help of Intel's Iris XE graphics able to play rainbow six sieges at 1080p with high settings and it's averaging a very playable 55 fps not too shabby at all and actually, it stayed nice and cool throughout as we're getting new dual heat pipes and a bigger cooling fan. So this particular model is the highest specification, one with an i7 16 GB of ram 512 GB storage and you're getting the i5 8GB of ram and also still 512 GB of fast NVMe storage which isn't bad at all actually and crucially you can upgrade it yourself so maybe in 6 or 12 months if you've got a few more pounds to spend you can maybe double the ram and expand the storage. 

HONOR MagicBook 14 - 2021 review

This is a pretty good-looking laptop we're getting an aluminum chassis in space grey and it's got a kind of sleek understated aesthetic to it. The top and the side bezels are nice and thin although. There is a bit of a chin at the bottom but it's still a solid 84% screen to body ratio, plus we're getting a 180-degree hinge so you can fold the screen right back to apparently people do sometimes and they share their work or what they're looking at with their flat-screen what is helpful is that you have more options for the viewing angle so if you are maybe putting this on a laptop stand or however you are using it you basically can adjust the screen however you like so that is useful. Another interesting thing is there's no webcam at the top of the screen and that's because it's hidden away under the key between f6 and f7. Now we've seen these privacy webcams on Honor and Huawei laptops for a few years, while the quality isn't fantastic and does look up your nose, you do have the benefit of being able to physically hide it, if you are a bit concerned about privacy. This laptop includes a fingerprint reader built into the power button, also this supports the honors magic link so just by tapping your on a phone you can share files and with the cross-collaboration feature actually use your phone screen on the laptop. There's a pretty decent selection of ports including two full-size USB A, one 3.2 GEN 1, one USB 2 for some reason which is a bit old and slow, full-size HDMI and USB C for charging which will come to in a second, and a headphone jack plus, we're getting WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.1. It's a fast 65 watt USB C charges so this is going to be great for your smartphone as well and it means you can plug it in with the USB C port and in just half an hour you'll get 44 of your batteries so fast charging with this is a really nice and speaking of battery thanks to the more efficient chips and also the 56-watt hour battery we get inside says we'll get up to 10 and a half hours of local full HD video playback. 

HONOR MagicBook 14 - 2021 review

So with the magic book, we're getting a 14 inch 1080p IPS LCD screen, 300 nits, 1001 contrast, and actually covers an impressive 100 of the SRGB color gamut. One of the more surprising standouts about this is actually the keyboard that this wasn't a really loud annoying clacky keyboard you can hear it's nice and muffled yet. It's still responsive there's a good key travel. It's actually a lovely keyboard it's well spaced out. It's backlight as well unlike a lot of keyboards, this is kind of like softer and a little bit rubbery, and also this smooth precision trackpad is a good size you couldn't really squeeze much for a big one in here. 

HONOR MagicBook 14 - 2021 review

So that's your walk-through of the Honor Magic Book 14. but going back to performance, it's comfortably handled 1080p video editing in premiere pro, plus you could always use proxies if you're doing more intensive 4K editing and also could smoothly edit videos in Lightroom. So to wrap up if you're after a thin and light laptop with the latest specs good performance and a smart design that also doesn't cost an absolute fortune then I would definitely recommend the Honor Magic Book 14.

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