STUFF AWARDS 2019
LAPTOP OF THE YEAR
HUAWEI MATEBOOK X PRO
from £1299 / consumer.huawei.com
Hanging out with Huawei is a confusing
business while Donald Trump is the school
bully. Google still can’t pass notes, but for
Microsoft it’s study-buddy sessions and
swapping packed lunches. That’s good news
for Huawei’s laptops division amid rumours it
was considering exiting the PC market.
Even better, we’ve deemed this Windows
laptop, the MateBook X Pro, our preferred
O Flairy liquid
The real star
of the show
here is a 13.9in
display with
3000x2000
resolution. Don’t
let the lack of an
OLED put you
off, because this
LCD pops plenty.OO Kill-it bang
The 2019 model
features Intel
Core i5 or
i7 CPUs that
benchmark 10%
quicker than the
old version, and
a Fortnite-ready
Nvidia MX250
graphics card.portable typewriter. There wasn’t much
wrong with the old X Pro, but beefier
innards and neat NFC tricks have made
the 2019 version an even more tempting
proposition, powerful enough to mix it
with a playground of MacBook Pros.NOMINEES
O Apple MacBook Pro O Dell XPS 13
O Microsoft Surface Laptop 3
O Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon1
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