Honor MagicBook Art 14 Plays Peek-a-Boo With a Modular Camera

American subject fabrication writer and aeronautical technologist Robert A. Heinlein erstwhile said, “One man’s ‘magic’ is different man’s engineering.” When that punctuation comes to mind, I can’t assistance but deliberation of the Honor MagicBook Art 14. I was floored and instantly jealous erstwhile I saw the stunning laptop astatine Honor’s booth connected the IFA 2024 amusement floor. Why, ohio why, can’t the U.S. person bully things and beryllium capable to bargain this laptop?

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The Emerald Green laptop is an implicit show made from aerospace-grade magnesium alloy. Finally, a laptop that isn’t black, gray, white, oregon blue. OEMs, delight instrumentality note. Aside from its color, the notebook is an implicit showstopper owed to its ultra-light, super-svelte dimensions. When I archetypal picked up the 2.3-pound, 12.5 x 8.8 x 0.45-inch device, I thought it was a prototype, but past the 14.6-inch, 3120 x 2080 OLED touchscreen sprung to life. And present I person a mighty request to reappraisal this laptop; portion locks beryllium damned.

But what truly grabbed my attraction was the MagicBook’s webcam oregon deficiency thereof. I looked astatine the halfway of the laptop’s apical bezel for the shooter, but determination was zilch, nada, zero. Seeing my confusion, the Honor rep took maine pressed on the backmost country of the laptop’s near side. The enactment revealed a bladed greenish slab with a achromatic module. A person look revealed that this was the 1080p webcam. The rep stuck it to the apical of the display, which automatically launched the camera app. And portion that was chill successful and of itself, things got adjacent cooler erstwhile the rep turned the camera around, capturing everyone down us. Connected by reasonably beardown magnets, you indispensable exert a small unit to disconnect the module.

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But onto the specs. Honor gives consumers respective configurations specified arsenic a 1.2-GHz Intel Core Ultra 5 processor 125H oregon a 1.4-GHz Intel Core Ultra 7 processor 155H, up to 32GB of LPDDR5X 7467MH RAM, a 1TB SSD, and integrated Intel Arc Graphics. That puts it connected a par with the Dell XPS 13, Asus ZenBook 14 OLED, and the Acer Swift 14. I’m a small wary of Honor’s estimated 9.5 hours of artillery life, but I’m intrigued astir the six speakers and the Spatial Audio technology. In short, I privation to reappraisal this laptop, which indispensable beryllium brought to the U.S. ASAP.