HUAWEI MateBook D 15-15.6 Inch Laptop with FullView 1080P FHD Ultrabook PC (AMD Ryzen 5 3500U, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD, Windows 10 Home, Multi-screen Collaboration, Fingerprint Reader), Space Grey

Works like a charm, been using it to work at home during lockdown for Coronavirus and it's handled nine hours of constant use with HDMI upscaling to two screens without a problem. It's quick opening and navigating Windows, conference calling on Microsoft Teams is no problem and it handles Citrix remote connectivity comfortably. Not found any issues multi tasking and the fan is very quiet when it kicks in, the keyboard and track pad are reassuringly responsive and screen colouration is fine with different filters and resolutions available in settings. Only minor point of criticism is no backlight to the keyboard but easily remedied with a usb light as there's three usb ports. I've seen mention in other reviews that the screen is washed out but I really can't say I'm finding that, perhaps if you're into gaming or streaming movies it might be but for day to day use this is a fine piece of kit at a mid range price. If you want loads of on board storage you're only getting 256GB (35GB used by system) here unless you add an external HDD and maybe DVDR. I've got a 1TB HDD connected and it reads and saves to this very quickly, I haven't tried running anything from the external HDD but with 8GB of RAM it really should cope with anything. I get about five hours out of the battery on a full charge and that's in constant use in double screen with WiFi, it charges to full from 20% in just under an hour but the trickle charge at the end at around 98% can a bit annoying if like me you like to see 100% on the battery meter before you unplug it. Finger print sensor is accurate and being an SSD the boot and shutdown times are seconds not minutes. All in all a great piece of kit for both working and day to day stuff, bags of internal power to cope with most things although I can't really comment on gaming or streaming, I use an Nvidia Shield for that kind of malarkey.

I've bought this laptop in April 2020, and after all this time, the battery life is still great! What impressed me from the start is that comes with preinstalled Windows 10, and the setup is made through voice commands, with the help of the Cortana Assistant. It can run most of the popular games with the hardware it has. I used to play League of Legends. The camera has a good quality and the fact that it is hidden in the keyboard is an ingenious way of keeping your privacy. It definitely does not have a good angle for meetings/streaming if it stands flat on the desk/table, but this can be solved easily with an adjustable laptop stand. The fingerprint scanner incorporated in the power button makes it very easy to log on to the system and authorize different things that require verification. The sound quality (when listening to music or watching movies) is great! The microphone quality is not great. I use an external studio-type microphone. It doesn't have Ethernet cable input, but I use an external USB to Ethernet adapter and it works great! It also doesn't have CD/DVD ROM, but if you really need one, you can use an external one. Huawei Share is also a great feature, as you can connect your Huawei phone to this powerful machine, and you can also use the laptop to make phone calls. All in all, it is an amazing piece of technology!

This feels like a MacBook - overall build quality anyway. It's solid! The specs mean the system is nice and snappy, with plenty of storage and RAM for general everyday tasks. Pros: - Solid overall build quality - MacBook-esque -USB-C for charging etc. -Fast and responsive -I like the keyboard -Fingerprint sensor is fast and accurate Cons: -Battery life is OK, but not amazing -No LAN port or card reader (yes, I know everything is WiFi these days, but I still use LAN occasionally.) -Even though the build quality is like a MacBook, the touchpad certainly isn't. It's not horrible, just OK -The display is not highly colour accurate, so not really suitable for professional photo/video work. Not that you'd be buying it for that purpose anyway. Four out of five for me. For the price, it's a pretty decent laptop!

Lovely working laptop, incredibly fast, doesnt come preloaded with bloatware, easy to set up though the plug caused a few moment until realising the "earth" plasting pin actually pops up so it will fit standard plug sockets, that would be the only niggle, everything else goes nicely and its been on now for over 5 hours and its still cool, very light too and the screen is impressive enough, even better when its turned on the graphics for what I do is absolutely splendid, touch pad responding well, no issues so far which previous laptops I had to configure the touchpad to stop unwanted zooming etc, I think whoever gets this laptop and gets passed the innitial WTF moment with the plug (have never encountered one before) is going to be delighted, I know I am. There is or was £100 off it too, if still the case don't hesitate, it feels and acts like a very high end laptop. Really can't fault it.