Huawei officially launches MateBook X 2020 in China as the successor to the original from 2017. It features a similar design as the MateBook X Pro 2020 from earlier this year and even shares most of its specifications with it. The only thing that makes it stand out is the fact that it is the first Windows laptop to feature a pressure-sensitive trackpad.

HUAWEI MateBook X 2020 Specifications

The newly announced HUAWEI MateBook X 2020 sports a 13-inch 3K ( 3000 x 2000 pixels) LTPS LCD touchscreen panel with 3:2 aspect ratio, 90% screen to body ratio, 100% sRGB color gamut, 1500:1 contrast ratio, 400 nits brightness, 178° viewing angle, and 10-point multitouch.

It is powered by up to 10th generation Intel Core i7-10510U processor paired with up to 16GB 2,133Mhz LPDDR3 RAM and 512GB NVMe SSD. Unfortunately, none of the variants features a dedicated GPU.

Further, the body of the laptop is made of magnesium-aluminium alloy and it weighs only about 1Kg. Also, it measures only 284.4 x 206.7 x 13.6 mm in dimensions. Since it is slimmer than most thin and light laptops in the market, it uses a fanless heat dissipation system.

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Talking about the elephant in the room, the pressure-sensitive trackpad included in this laptop makes it the first Windows laptop to come with this hardware. Huawei calls it Free Touch, which is vaguely inspired by Apple’s Force Touch trackpad on MacBooks. It is capable of detecting various pressure levels and even provides vibration feedback.

Other features of this new Huawei notebook includes 4 x speakers, 2 x microphones, pop-up camera, backlit chocolate keyboard, fingerprint sensor, WiFi 6, Bluetooth 5.0, NFC, 2 x USB Type-C, 3.5mm headphone jack, 42Whr battery, and support for 65W fast charging.

HUAWEI MateBook X 2020 Price and Availability

It comes in four colors namely Frost Silver, Interstellar Blue, Green Mountain Daisy, and Cherry Blossom powder. But not all the colors are available at launch.

The new Huawei notebook will be available for pre-order starting August 19 and will go on sale from August 24. It is currently limited to China but will be certainly hitting other markets like any previous laptops from the company.

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Huawei will be hosting an event tomorrow (August 19) to launch MateBook X 2020. This thin and light laptop is said to be the direct successor to the first model in the series launched back in 2017. The company has been teasing the design of this notebook for the past few days. Today’s teaser poster reveals it to come in at least two colors.

The internals of the upcoming HUAWEI MateBook X 2020 is a mystery. However, the company has revealed its design in a series of teasers. In a nutshell, it looks similar to the HUAWEI MateBook X Pro 2020 from earlier this year.

Having said that, the new teaser poster shared by the company confirms at least two colors for this forthcoming notebook – Silver and Pink. We are saying “at least” and that’s because a leaked render shows this laptop in four colors.

According to that leak (via Notebook Check), the HUAWEI MateBook X 2020 will be available in four colors and they are as listed below.

• Frost Silver
• Interstellar Blue
• Green Mountain Daisy
• Cherry Blossom Powder

Anyway, we would recommend you to consider this leak with a pinch of salt. Because these are exactly the same colors that MateBook X Pro 2020 is available in. If Huawei is indeed launching the MateBook X 2020 in the same four colors why would it only tease two in the poster?

Apart from this, the upcoming Huawei laptop is also reported to be the first Windows laptop to ship with a pressure-sensitive trackpad.

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Apart from smartphones, Huawei also sells a wide variety of laptops with its own branding as well as Honor. The latter is even set to debut its first gaming laptops under Hunter series powered by Intel. On the other hand, Huawei has scheduled an event for August 19 to launch the successor to the original MateBook X from 2017. According to a new leak, it could be the first-ever Windows laptop to come with a pressure-sensitive trackpad.

Apple MacBooks have had pressure-sensitive trackpad called “Force Touch” since 2015. They even mimic the clicking experience (haptics) using a vibration motor. The company uses a similar trick for the home button on iPhone 7/7 Plus, iPhone 8/8 Plus, and the new iPhone SE 2020.

Now, if this tip by a blogger called 看山的叔叔 on Weibo is true, then the upcoming Huawei MateBook X 2020 will be the first Windows laptop to come with a pressure-sensitive trackpad and it will be called Free Touch. 

However, the leakster is not sure if the company will include a linear motor. Whereas, for the hardware, we guess the company to use Synaptics ZPad, which was showcased at CES 2019 with haptics functionality.

With this feature and Windows Precision Driver, the trackpad on MateBook X 2020 should be one of the best in the market. Anyway, this is merely a leak and the company is yet to confirm it.

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