The bottom cover of the Huawei MateBook D 15 can be removed once all the screws on the bottom are undone. If said frequency is too low, users with sensitive eyes may experience strain or headaches or even notice the flickering altogether. Actual data may vary owing to differences in individual products, software versions, application conditions, and environmental factors. All in all, it is quite average in terms of energy consumption when compared to all other devices with similar hardware that we have reviewed.

HUAWEI MateBook D 15 2022 - HUAWEI UK

At the beginning of the stress test, the TDP amounted to 30 watts, but then it quickly fell to 25 watts. The Space Gray color and keyboard layout all owe a debt of gratitude to Apple’s design team, but the Huawei MateBook D 15 (2020) avoids feeling like a cheap knock-off. dB(A) 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Deep Bass Middle Bass High Bass Lower Range Mids Higher Mids Lower Highs Mid Highs Upper Highs Super Highs 20 37. Perhaps the best design decisions was to add NFC connectivity to the body of the Huawei MateBook D 15 (2020).Overall, the Huawei MateBook D 15 (2020)’s design does an excellent job of making this affordable mid-range laptop look and feel more expensive than it actually is. The AMD Ryzen 5 3500U is a decent enough mobile processor for day-to-day tasks, but the Huawei MateBook D 15 (2020) will struggle to do anything too strenuous. For anyone with knowledge of laptop specs, you’ll be able to tell straight away that this laptop isn't going to break any records when it comes to performance. We were impressed by the MateBook with an Intel CPU, and now it appears as though it is just as good with an AMD processor.

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That being said, in our suite of benchmarks, the Huawei notebook only manages to secure a spot in the middle of our comparison chart.The keyboard, for example, has a slightly deeper travel than MacBooks released before the end of 2019. This all ties into the quietly impressive PC Manager, which is worth using simply to keep drivers up to date. Using a fingerprint to sign in to Windows 10 is a great feature, and the Huawei MateBook D 15 (2020) has the added bonus of including tech that reads your fingerprint when you press the power button.

Huawei MateBook D15 (2021) review: A thoroughly decent laptop

It’s an elegant solution which provides an added level of privacy – you can press the camera back down into the keyboard to turn it off.That’s not too bad, and would last you almost an entire work day, but there are some caveats that leave us slightly less impressed.