Huawei MateBook 16s
Price: £1,299 from fave.co/3P5ZUEy
Do you really need a 16in laptop? For most people the answer is a resounding no. But for a select few a portable powerhouse with a big screen is a godsend – and Huawei clearly agrees, choosing to launch two of them at the same time to the European market. The MateBook 16s is the more premium of the pair (though the affordable MateBook D16 is no slouch, to be fair), targeting graphic designers, video editors, and other users with heavy professional or creative workloads.
The big caveat is that there’s no option to grab the 16s with a discrete GPU, and Huawei is instead banking on the combination of Intel’s powerful 12th-gen H-series CPUs, Thunderbolt 4 support, and a high-quality 2.5K display to persuade creatives that the MateBook 16s is up to the task.
DESIGN
Huawei has settled comfortably into a stable design language for its MateBook laptops, and the 16s does little to upset the apple cart. Like most of the company’s devices this laptop only comes in Space Grey, and the restrained design is simple and professional. At worst you might call it a little dull, but this certainly isn’t an unattractive piece of kit, from the
