Honor today held a launch event which was live-streamed online. The Chinese tech giant took the wraps off a number of products that have earlier been launched in China for the global market. Top of the pack is the Honor MagicBook 14 and MagicBook 15 laptops.
The laptop prides itself with having an ultra-thin build with 4.8mm micro-bezel design on three sides, said to be about 0.4mm narrower than the previous generation model. This helps in offering a full-screen and immersive field-of-vision experience. The display is a 14-inch IPS display which Honor says is laminated to prevent glares. The laptop integrates a webcam in front of the keyboard with a retractable design. The power button also has a fingerprint sensor integrated with it. 
Under the hood, the device is powered by AMD‘s Ryzen 5 3500U processor along with Radeon RX Vega 8 graphics card. This is notably different from the Ryzen 7 3700U processor and Radeon RX Vega 10 graphics card that the China version was announced with. The device comes equipped with DDR4 dual-channel memory and it uses PCIe NVMe SSD for storage.
Heat dissipation is one of the main focus of the MagicBook 14 & 15 as it comes with an S-shaped fab design. For higher-density fan blades, the number of fan blades has increased by 49 percent and the air volume and heat dissipation capacity increased by 38 percent.
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As for the battery life, the new Honor MagicBook comes packed with a 56Wh large battery which the company says can provide 1080P video playback for 9.5 hours, web browsing for 9.4 hours, and daily office hours for 10 hours. Further, it also comes with a fast charger which the company claims can charge 46 percent in just 30 minutes.
Do note that the Honor MagicBook 15 features a 15.6-inch display that comes with a screen-to-body ratio of 87 percent. Apart from that, most of the specifications remain the same as the 14-inch model.
As for the pricing, Honor says the MagicBook 14/15 with 8GB RAM and 256GB storage is priced at 599 Euros and will b available from March in Germany, the UK, Spain and other countries. The pricing for the 8GB RAM+512GB storage version is yet to be announced but it will b available from April in some countries in Europe.
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