Regardless of a controversial lack of availability in america, Huawei’s svelte laptop computer designs have been turning heads all around the world for the previous few years. The corporate’s newest flagship mannequin is the MateBook X Professional 2022, and it’s a stunner of an ultraportable. Dominic Preston went reside at Cellular World Congress in Barcelona to offer us an early take a look at this glossy new pocket book.

You possibly can take a look at Dom’s impressions reside on PCWorld’s YouTube channel:

Huawei is a giant fan of minimalist designs, proven right here on this principally featureless slab of aluminum. That doesn’t imply that the MateBook X Professional is boring; with a deep blue-green end it stands out in a sea of silver and gunmetal, even earlier than you discover the 14.2-inch display screen with teeny tiny bezels. That embiggened display screen can be improved. The 3K decision panel is boosted to 90 hertz, and it now has the 720p webcam within the correct spot (as an alternative of hiding below a keyboard key), avoiding the dreaded “nostril cam.” The entire thing seems to be lots like a smaller, sleeker tackle Microsoft’s Floor Laptop computer line. Don’t fear, it’ll be obtainable in silver too if you’d like one thing a bit of extra buttoned-down.

The MateBook X Professional isn’t skimping on the internals, both. The MWC demonstration construct boasts an Eleventh-gen Core i7 processor, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB of storage. A discrete graphics card received’t slot in a laptop computer this tiny, however it options Intel’s more-than-capable Iris Xe built-in graphics system. Whereas the slim construct drops any USB-A ports (maintain a dongle useful), it may be charged from any of the 4 USB-C ports at as much as 90 watts.

This type of moveable {hardware} doesn’t come low-cost. The MateBook X Professional 2022 will price an estimated 1900 euro within the Core i7 configuration when it launches later this yr.