Good deal – The Honor MagicBook Pro (2020) AMD “4-star” laptop at 758.62 € (-16%)

The Honor MagicBook Pro 16.1 is a laptop in 16-inch format, a large screen that the manufacturer directs more particularly towards graphic designers and photographers with a Ryzen 4000 processor.

The Honor MagicBook Pro has serious advantages. Its screen is undoubtedly its greatest quality. Combined with a powerful Ryzen processor, it could have become a must-have for graphic designers and photographers. But between the absence of an SD reader, the lack of memory upgradeability and rather disappointing finishes, it is far from perfect. An interesting novelty that does not tick all the boxes.

Points forts

  • Excellent quality screen.
  • Good performance.

Weak points

  • Questionable chassis finishes.
  • Lack of connectivity for a 16 inch.
  • Disappointing audio part.
  • Memory welded, very little scalability for a 16 inch.

NB: The reported price drop is calculated by comparing the lowest price of the day with the average of the lowest prices charged by all merchants for the product last month, with security rules to exclude prices from shops whose the VAT policy is not clear (known as “grey” shops, typically in the case of imports from China).

An alternative

By taking the MagicBook Pro on its own, Huawei has corrected its main defect (the keyboard) and retained its main strong point (its screen). We would have liked a slightly newer processor, however, like an AMD Ryzen 5 5600H with Zen 3 architecture. To make a perfect copy, Huawei would have been well advised to offer better speakers and a larger capacity battery — Autonomy is on the other hand correct. We will finally settle for a free M.2 slot instead.

archyde news, your content continues below

Leave a Comment

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.