For years, Apple’s MacBook Pros have been the best designed laptops you can buy.
But Apple’s superiority in the space has been increasingly challenged in recent years, as more and more Windows 10 laptops have been embracing a similarly premium, sleek aesthetic.
One of the best Windows 10 laptops you can buy right now is Huawei’s $1,200 – $1,500 Matebook Pro X, which sports a design you’d be proud to show off to your MacBook Pro-wielding friends. Its screen will probably be a source of envy, too. It also happens to have great specs, and an even better price tag.
The Huawei Matebook X Pro is classy and elegant.
The Matebook X Pro isn’t quite as minimalistic as Apple’s MacBook Pro, but it’s equal in class and elegance. It’s a beautiful laptop that exudes premium vibes.
The display is the most luxurious we’ve seen on any laptop, even MacBook Pros.
Apart from the Matebook X Pro’s design, its display is a major source of those premium vibes.
It has the thinnest bezels I’ve seen on any laptop, and the effect is the same as it is with smartphones. It looks sleeker and more advanced than displays with thicker bezels, including the MacBook Pro, and it’s more impressive as a result. It’s similar to the bezel difference between the iPhone 8 and iPhone X.
The Matebook X Pro’s 3000 x 2000 resolution display is also slightly sharper than both the 13-inch MacBook Pro (2560 x 1600) and the 15-inch MacBook Pro (2880 x 1800). Windows 10 really does look good in higher resolutions.
And if we’re comparing the Matebook X Pro to the 13-inch MacBook Pro, it has a larger 14-inch display. Technically, it’s only 0.6-inches larger, but bigger is bigger. It sits between the 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pros.
The Matebook X Pro’s display is also a touchscreen, which can be handy at times. You won’t find a touchscreen on MacBook Pros.
The bezels can be so thin because the front-facing camera isn’t on the screen.
The front camera hides under a dedicated button in the keyboard, and it pops out when you need it. I rarely use the front camera on a laptop, so I can easily justify hiding it away on the keyboard and the odd video angle that faces upwards in exchange for gorgeous ultra-thin bezels. Below is a shot taken with the front camera, and I’m looking directly at the screen