Best Huawei Laptops 2024: Our top five from Huawei

The Huawei MateBook X Pro (2023) sticks to the formula of the laptops that it succeeds and that’s no bad thing. It’s a sleek and high-end productivity machine, and we think that makes it the best Huawei laptop overall.

In the past, Huawei has offered up a stylish green hue to make its flagship laptop stand out from the crowd but, this time, it’s a pearly white option. It is a wonderfully unique look that manages to be understated and eye-catching in equal measure. It’s lightweight and slim too, measuring 1.38kg and 15.5mm respectively.

Its compact build doesn’t mean the display has been hindered. The MateBook X Pro has a bright and lush 14.2-inch 3K resolution panel. The brightness isn’t remarkable but the colours pop, making for a detailed experience whether you’re watching movies or surfing the web.

The performance is more than up to snuff for a premium productivity machine, with the Core i7 and 16GB RAM combo meaning you can do plenty of multi-tasking and open a mountain of tabs. You’ll be doing this over the course of a long working day too, with the Huawei able to manage around eight hours and a half of battery life.

The Huawei MateBook 14 (2024) is an outstanding value laptop with a vibrant OLED display and some superb specs at an affordable price.

The MateBook 14 has a sturdy but lightweight build and comes in two colours, Green and Space Grey. The keys offer plenty of travel but the feedback isn’t quite as precise as that of a MacBook keyboard and the backlight could be stronger. The trackpad, however, is smooth and responsive. There’s also a decent port selection, including an HDMI port, two USB-A, one USB-C, and a headphone jack.

The 14.2-inch OLED display is vibrant and colourful with outstanding contrast and a smooth 120Hz refresh rate. The speakers are a weak point for this laptop, however, so we’d recommend using a pair of headphones when streaming movies on the device.

The MateBook 14 runs on a 14th Generation Intel processor with options including the Intel Core Ultra 7 and the Core Ultra 5. We found the performance to be very speedy, making this laptop an excellent choice for productivity. The device also comes with a generous 1TB SSD capacity. It’s worth noting that the performance is limited when running graphically intensive workloads, such as gaming and video editing, as there’s no option for a discrete GPU.

We found some of Huawei’s preinstalled apps to be very useful, such as the Huawei Control Panel which brings shortcuts for taking screenshots, adjusting display settings, deactivating the webcam, and more into one place. As you might expect, the MateBook 14 also works seamlessly with Huawei’s smartphones and tablets.

The laptop has a 70Wh battery capacity which Huawei claims will give users 19 hours of video playback. We found that the laptop was able to last just over 10 hours when looping productivity workloads via PCMark 10 with the screen brightness dimmed to 150 nits.

The laptop comes with a 65W charger in the box, which we found charged the battery from 0 to 100% in roughly 90 minutes.

The Huawei MateBook 16s is our favourite big-screen laptop from the brand. The 16-inch touchscreen panel is so big that you can easily view multiple apps and web browsers simultaneously. During our testing, we noticed that the 2520×1680 resolution helped to enhance the visual quality of movies and TV shows compared to more conventional Full HD laptops, with the additional pixels making on-screen images look sharper.

This laptop isn’t just impressive for its big screen, as it’s also packing an incredibly powerful 12th Gen Intel Core processor. It scored very impressive results in our benchmark tests, with faster processing speeds than both the LG Gram 16 (2022) and MacBook Air M2. Unfortunately, there’s no option for a discrete GPU to boost the graphics performance for workloads such as video editing and gaming. But it’s hard to be too disappointed by this when you consider the great value price.

There is a downside to having such a powerful performance though, as the MateBook 16s only lasted 7 hours and 34 minutes in our battery benchmark test. Other laptops such as the LG Gram 16 performed significantly better here, but do admittedly offer a weaker CPU performance. It’s also worth noting that the MateBook 16s is rather heavy, hitting the scales at 1.99kg.

But while you will have to make compromises when opting for a 16-inch laptop with a blazing fast performance, there are still plenty of benefits on offer. If you want a 16-inch laptop screen, as well as a performance good enough for the likes of photo editing, there are few better options than the MateBook 16s.

The Huawei MateBook D 16 is another 16-inch laptop from Huawei, but has less impressive specs than the MateBook 16 S, and a more affordable price. This makes it a great option for those who want a large screen but are on a tight budget.

The large screen has a 1920×1200 resolution, which our review noted was sharp and vibrant. In our benchmarks, we also saw the screen reach 328.5 nits, with a contrast of 1442:2. This falls slightly short of the MateBook 16, though it ensured a clear difference between dark and bright imagery for great picture quality.

It also packs a 12th-Generation Intel Core processor, which we thought allowed for speedy processing speeds. It was able to handle multiple Chrome tabs, Spotify and YouTube being opened at once without faltering, making it an ideal productivity laptop.

Plus, the large and tactile keyboard is full-sized, giving users access to a numeric keyboard. Anyone who regularly works with numbers or spreadsheets will find this helpful, and we liked how quiet it was to use.

The Huawei MateBook E (2022) is the best Huawei laptop with a 2-in-1 design, which means it can be used as both a tablet and a laptop. It comes bundled with the Huawei Keyboard, while you can also buy the M-Pencil to doodle and draw with more precision, although the screen is still perfectly responsive when using your finger.

The 12.6-inch screen uses OLED technology, which our reviewer thought was vibrant, with the blacks looking deeper and colours looking punchier. Our tests backed this up, as the screen came out with a high brightness of 418 nits and a perfect contrast. It also scored great in our colour accuracy tests, meaning that any creative professionals will be fine using the MateBook E for photo editing and other colour-sensitive work.

Furthermore, our reviewer found that this laptop rarely ever stalled and could handle simple tasks like web browsing, word processing and video streaming with ease. The versatile design means it can be configured in multiple ways, allowing users to switch from productivity work to watching a movie seamlessly.

While we wouldn’t recommend the MateBook E for any creatives that want to engage in intensive work (like video editing or 3D rendering) due to the lack of discrete GPU, we think it’s ideal for anyone who values portability and versatility.