Last year’s Huawei’s MateBook X Pro was a stunner of a laptop. Not only was it incredibly competent in all the major categories that matter — power, portability, design, build quality, keyboard, trackpad, even battery life — it was also incredibly cheap, offering that package for hundreds of dollars less than competing Windows laptops or even MacBooks. The MateBook X Pro easily became my recommendation for the best laptop of the year, and even now, more than six months later, it remains at the top of many shortlists.
So the bar for Huawei’s next laptop — the new MateBook 13, which was announced at CES earlier this month and is hitting Amazon and Newegg around the time this review is published — is unsurprisingly high.
