Back in July, Honor unveiled its MagicBook 14 and MagicBook 15 laptops with Ryzen’s 5000 series processors. Now, a few months later, the company has launched the laptops in Russia. The laptops come with a thin and light chassis and have a starting price of RUB 59,990(~$823).

The MagicBook 14 and 15 come with 14-inch and 15-inch IPS LCD panels with a Full-HD resolution. The screen has 300 nits of brightness and comes with DC dimming and a 100% sRGB color gamut. The display is certified for emitting low blue light and has a Flicker-free certification.

Inside, the duo is powered by the same AMD Ryzen 5 5500U processors with up to 16GB of DDR4 RAM and 512GB of PCIe NVMe SSD. The laptops come with aluminum built and pack 56WHr batteries. Both laptops get a 65W fast charging support which is claimed to charge the laptops from 0% to 65% in just 1 hour.

The laptops boot on Windows 10 Home but, are upgradeable to Windows 11. The MagicBook 14 measures 15.9mm in thickness, whereas, the MagicBook 15 has a thickness of 16.9mm. The former weighs 1.38 Kgs and the latter weighs 1.54 Kgs.

The MagicBook 14 and 15 are currently on pre-orders in Russia. The 14 is priced at RUB 59,990(~$822), whereas, the MagicBook 15 costs RUB 69,990(~$960). Interestingly, those who pre-order the laptops will get a free pair of Honor Earbuds 2 Lite and Honor MagicWatch 2.

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Honor has just launched its 2021 series of MagicBook laptops in China. This includes the MagicBook 14 and MagicBook 15, which feature the AMD Ryzen 5000 series of processors along with support for the upcoming Windows 11 update.

In a conference earlier this week, the Chinese smartphone maker launched the new MagicBook 14 and 15, which are the company’s latest thin and light notebooks. Both laptops sport an all metal body design with thin bezels that surround the display. On the front, the MagicBook 14 sports a 14 inch FHD IPS matte display that has been certified with TÜV Rheinland Low Blue Light and Flicker Free certifications. The larger variant also features a similar display but with a larger 15 inch panel.

Notably, a highlighting aspect of the new laptops is their form factor, with the 14 inch version measuring just 15.9mm in thickness and weighs just 1.38 kilograms. Even the bezel on the display is just 4.8mm thick. On the other hand, the MagicBook 15 has a thickness of 16.9mm and weighs just 1.54 kilograms with an 87 percent screen to body ratio and 5.3mm bezel frame. Under the hood, both laptops feature AMD’s latest Ryzen 5000 series processors, which is paired with 16GB of dual channel DDR4 RAM and 512GB of NVMe PCIe SSD storage.

Both laptops support WiFi 6 standards as well and Honor has also stated that these will support the Microsoft Windows 11 update when it rolls out. The laptops will first go on sale starting from July 20 and their prices are as follows:

• MagicBook 14 (Ryzen 5 5500U) – 4,499 Yuan (roughly 700 US Dollars)
• MagicBook 14 (Ryzen 7 5700U) – 4,899 Yuan (roughly 760 US Dollars)
• MagicBook 15 (Ryzen 5 5500U) – 4,599 Yuan (roughly 712 US Dollars)

Honor is also offering a special first sale discount on the MagicBook 14’s Ryzen 5 model and the MagicBook 15, which will be priced at 4,199 Yuan (roughly 650 US Dollars) and 4,299 Yuan (roughly 665 US Dollars) respectively.

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Former Huawei subsidiary Honor released an updated version of its MagicBook series, and some of the models feature the latest Intel processors. The MagicBook 14 comes with a couple of processor options between Intel Core i7 and the Core i5. These processors boast of up to 4.7 GHz and 4.2 GHz, respectively. On the other hand, the MagicBook 15 will rely on the Intel Core i5 processor for the CPU.

The MagicBook series remains one of the popular products from Honor. In January this year, the MagicBook 14 and 15 were announced for the Chinese market with the same 11th generation Intel Core processors but paired with NVIDIA GeForce MX450 GPU. There is also a Ryzen edition of both laptops. This global version features the latest Intel Iris XE GPU that serves the purpose of gaming and other heavy uses. Both models, according to Honor, will have 16GB DDR4 RAM and 512GB internal storage capacity.

The MagicBook 14 has a 14-inch 1080p IPS LCD screen, while the MagicBook 15’s display is a 15-inch LCD panel with 1080p resolution. The batteries of the laptops also pack sufficient power, and the user is guaranteed several hours of activity on a full charge. There is also 65W fast charging support, which means you can get up to 45% of power within an hour of charging. The backlit keyboard also illuminates the devices when in a dark environment. Both models also feature a pop-up camera and dual heat pipes with a cooling fan to provide ambient performance always.

Since Huawei sold the Honor brand last year, the company has continued to flourish. The new models are available online via the Honor country-specific website for the United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Other markets are expected to follow suit shortly. The MagicBook 14 with an Intel Core i5 processor will sell at €849, while the Intel Core i7 edition will cost €1,200. The MagicBook 15 starts at €950.

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It’s been a couple of months since Honor separated from Chinese giant Huawei to become an independent brand but that hasn’t stopped the company from lining up and launching new devices one after another.

Along with the Honor V40 flagship smartphone launch on 18th January in China, the company will also be launching its new MagicBook series of laptops. The company is expected to launch Honor MagicBook 14 and MagicBook 15.

While the official launch is still days away, the devices have been listed online by JD.com, revealing the design as well as configuration. However, to know the pricing and availability details, we will have to wait for the official launch.

So far, it’s known that the Honor MagicBook 14 and 15 will come with a display with narrow bezels on the three sides and the screen has passed Rheinland Low Blue Light certification. It will be offered in just one color — Glacier Silver.

Internally, the laptops come powered by the latest Intel 11th generation processors, up to Core i7-1165G7. These processors are manufactured using the 10nm process and support clock speeds up to 4.7GHz.

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It also has Intel Xe integrated graphics processor, packed with up to 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD. The company will also offer an option of NVIDIA MX450 discrete graphics card for better graphics performance.

It has also been revealed that the devices come with shark-fin high-density and slim fan blade design along with dual heat pipes to ensure that the temperature remains in control and thus, the laptop delivers better performance.

Recently, at the CES 2021, the company had unveiled the Honor MagicBook Pro 2021 that features a 16.1-inch Full HD display. It packs an Intel Core i5-10210U processor, NVIDIA GeForce MX350 GPU, 16GB RAM, and 512GB SSD. The laptop is priced at $1,000 and will soon be available for purchase.

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Honor, the Huawei subsidiary, has just unveiled its latest lineup of MagicBook laptops in the IFA 2020 event, earlier today (4th September 2020). These laptops are refreshes to the 14 and 15 inch models which were launched earlier this year and feature AMD’s new Ryzen 4000 series processors.

While all of the laptops feature a Ryzen 4000 series chip, only the MagicBook Pros arrive with an H series processor. For those unaware, the U series is generally for thin and light laptops with en emphasis on low power draw while the H series focuses on offering better performance. Taking a look into the MagicBook Pro series first:

MagicBook Pro

The Honor MagicBook Pro features the Ryzen 5 4600H, which is a six core 12 thread CPU with Radeon graphics integrated. For memory, the user is offered 16GB of dual channel RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. The laptop has a 16.1 inch Full HD display with a 90 percent screen to body ratio and with an sRGB cover of 100 percent. The Honor MagicBook pro weighs just 1.7 kilograms and is only 16.9mm thick, which is fairly light and thin for a laptop with an H series chip.

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MagicBook 14 & 15

Alongside the specced up MagicBook Pro, the company has also launched the MagicBook 14 and 15. These are a direct refresh of the laptop which was unveiled earlier this year at MWC. The laptops now feature a Ryzen 5 4500U processor, with up to 16GB of RAM and 512GB of SSD storage. Although, the configuration and availability will vary between countries.

Between the 14 inch and 15 inch variant, the only real difference is the screen size.
Users get also get three USB 3.2 Gen1 Type A ports, one USB Type-C port for charging, an HDMI 2.0, and a 3.5mm audio jack as well. The laptop also supports Bluetooth 5.0 and has a camera hidden inside the keyboard along with a fingerprint sensor on the power button.

Both variants feature the same resolution and also feature identical ports including one USB Type C for charging, one USB 3.2 Gen1 Type A, an HDMI port, and a 3.5mm audio jack. Apart from the display, another difference is the battery, with the smaller variant having a much larger battery for some unknown reason (56Wh versus 42Wh on the MagicBook 15).

Price and Availability

The Honor MagicBook Pro with the Ryzen 5 4600H will be available in Germany starting from 7th September 2020 and the UK from the 8th. It will be priced at €899.90/£859.99 (roughly 1,200 US Dollars) respectively. A promotional offer at launch offers a €100 off in Germany and France or a free Honor Magic Watch and Honor Router 3 in the UK. On the other hand, the MagicBook 14 will be available in all three regions from 21st September for €749.90 or £669.99 (roughly 890 US Dollars).

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Honor MagicBook 15 launches in India powered by AMD Ryzen 5 3500U APU with Radeon Vega 8 GPU. It comes in a single 8GB + 256GB variant priced at ₹42,990 ($574). It will be available for ₹39,990 ($534) for a limited period of time starting August 6. Flipkart First subscribers will get early access to the product from 8MP on August 5.

The newly announced Honor MagicBook 15 for India is the same laptop that launched in Europe in February of this year. This notebook initially debuted in China in November 2019 alongside Honor V30 series.

As its name suggests, the laptop sports a 15.6-inch FHD (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS LCD panel with 16:9 aspect ratio, 178° viewing angle and 87% screen to body ratio. Since the bezels surrounding the screen are thin, the 720p webcam resides in a pop-up keyboard key.

The notebook features a metal unibody design, weighs 1.53Kg and only comes in Mystic Silver color option with blue accent. It has dual speaker, dual microphone, and the following ports –  1 x USB 2.0 Type A, 1 x USB 3.0 Type A, 1 x USB Type C, 1 x HDMI, and 3.5mm headphone jack

Other features include dual-band DDR4 dual-channel RAM, PCIe NVMe SSD, WiFi 5, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, Huawei Multi-screen Collaboration, Honor Magic Link 2.0, TÜV Rheinland-certified Blue Ray filter, 3665mAh battery, fingerprint sensor and 65W fast charging via USB Type-C.

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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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The Honor MagicBook 15 was announced last month at the Honor V30 series launch. Depending on the configuration, the 15.6-inch notebook ships with AMD’s Ryzen 5 3500U or Ryzen R7 3700U CPU. Today, Honor announced new variants that are powered by Intel’s 10th Gen CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs.

The Honor MagicBook 15 Intel 10th-Gen version is available in four configurations:

1. Intel Core i5-1021U + 2GB GDDR5 VRAM NVIDIA GeForce MX250 + 8GB RAM + 256GB SSD = ¥4899 (~$699)
2. Intel Core i5-1021U + 2GB GDDR5 VRAM NVIDIA GeForce MX250 + 8GB RAM + 512GB SSD = ¥5199 (~$742)
3. Intel Core i5-1021U + 2GB GDDR5 VRAM NVIDIA GeForce MX250 + 16GB RAM + 512GB SSD = ¥5499 (~$785)
4. Intel Core i7-1021U + 2GB GDDR5 VRAM NVIDIA GeForce MX250 + 16GB RAM + 512GB SSD = ¥5899 (~$842)

The computer has a 15.6-inch IPS screen with a 1920 x 1080 resolution, 87% screen-to-body ratio, and TUV Rheinland Display Certification. It ships with Windows 10 Home Edition, has NFC, Bluetooth 5.0, a fingerprint scanner buried in the power button, dual-band WiFi, 1 x USB 2.0 port, 1 x USB 3.0 port, 1 x HDMI port, and 1 x USB Type-C port for power. It also has an audio jack that doubles as a microphone jack and a webcam hidden between the function keys.

The Honor MagicBook 15 has a 42Wh lithium-polymer battery with support for 65W fast charging. Honor says the laptop will charge from empty to 70% in 1 hour while a full charge will take 2.5 hours. It will come with Huawei’s 65W USB-C power adapter inside the box.

The notebook is now available for pre-order. If you pay a deposit of between ¥100 to ¥200 (~$14 to ~$28), Honor will ship the computer with a free Honor Bluetooth mouse worth ¥129 (~$18) and a free Honor Minimalist Backpack that sells for ¥119 (~$17).

The Honor MagicBook 15 Intel Edition is expected to begin shipping in January 2020. You can pre-order one on Vmall.com.

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Today, at a launch event in China, along with the Honor V30 series smartphones, the company has also launched its next-generation of Honor MagicBook.

The new Honor MagicBook comes with 14-inch display having 4.8mm micro-bezel design on three sides, which is about 0.4mm narrower than the previous generation model. This helps in offering a full-screen and immersive field-of-vision experience.

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Under the hood, the device is powered by AMD‘s Ryzen 7 3700U processor along with Radeon RX Vega 10 graphics card. The device comes equipped with DDR4 dual-channel memory and it uses PCIe NVMe SSD for storage.

The company has also focused on heat dissipation and for higher-density fan blades, the number of fan blades have increased by 49 percent and the air volume and heat dissipation capacity increased by 38 percent.

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.

Along with the 14-inch model, the company has also launched Honor MagicBook 15 which comes with a 15.6-inch display that comes with a screen-to-body ratio of 87 percent. Apart from that, most of the specifications remains the same as the 14-inch model.

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Honor‘s MagicBook series aren’t exactly the most popular devices, but they’ve always been fairly solid. They feature fairly decent specs and nice, quality builds. They must also supposedly sell pretty well, as Honor is introducing a brand new product into the lineup, that being the Honor MagicBook 15 according to Huawei Mall official.

Unfortunately at the moment, we don’t really know much about the specifications of the Honor MagicBook 15. The render on the official poster shows us that it continues the design language of previous MagicBooks with narrow bezels, but nothing about what’s powering the device. To that end, all we can really do right now is speculate.

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Following previous releases, we can assume it will be available in multiple different configurations. There will possibly be Intel and AMD Ryzen options, with up to 16GB of RAM and 512GB SSD storage. We can also see the good old Honor MagicBook fingerprint sensor power button, which is a welcome addition to the device. Finally, it’ll will probably come in Windows and Linux variants.

There’s also no pricing information, though we wouldn’t expect the MagicBook 15 to cost all that much. According to Huawei Vmall official, more information regarding the device will be revealed tomorrow, so all we can really do for now is wait. Hopefully it’ll continue Honor’s streak of releasing fairly good high quality laptops at affordable prices.

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