What is the difference between a smart business notebook and Honor MagicBook V 14 2022?

If we go back a few years, I believe people at that time would never realize the changes that Honor would bring to the laptop market.

Since the birth of the brand, Honor has always insisted on providing consumers with high-quality technology products. By integrating smart functions into high-performance products, Honor's mobile phones, tablets and watches are deeply loved by consumers.

After entering the notebook computer market, Honor still adheres to this concept, creating products for consumers that only Honor can make, rather than simply piecing together components.

The previously released MagicBook V 14 2022 2022 laptop incorporates a large number of smart functions specially developed by Honor for it, which maximizes the differentiated attributes of the MagicBook V 14 2022 and makes it a unique high-end smart business notebook on the market.

Recently, we had the honor of getting the MagicBook V 14 2022 model i7 standard voltage independent graphics version. After a few days of in-depth experience, we would like to talk with you about the actual experience of MagicBook V 14 after integrating smart functions.

Without further ado, let’s officially begin!

Appearance, keyboard and interface

It is no exaggeration to say that if I hadn't specifically checked its price, I would have thought that the MagicBook V 14 2022 was a 10,000 yuan flagship business notebook, because its workmanship, materials and design are so high-end.

The MagicBook V 14 body is made of all-metal material, but it should be noted that although there are many all-metal laptops on the market, the reason why I think the MagicBook V 14 2022 feels more high-end is because its metal body not only has the cool feeling of metal, but also feels very delicate to the touch. This is an effect that requires particularly precise processing technology to achieve.

The design of the A side is very simple, without any exaggerated texture curves. There is only a mirror-finished HONOR logo in the middle, which looks very grand.

Open the B side with one hand (yes, due to its reasonable structural design, MagicBook V 14 supports one-handed opening and closing), and what comes into view is the 14.2-inch 2.5K giant screen.

Some friends may wonder: Why is the B side of MagicBook V 14 2022 almost the same size as a common 13-inch laptop, but can accommodate a 14.2-inch screen?

Because Honor uses an extremely narrow bezel design, the B side is almost entirely left to the screen, and the final screen-to-body ratio reaches a rare 90.5%.

At the same time, the most outrageous thing is that even though the screen border of MagicBook V 14 2022 is so narrow, Honor can still squeeze in a Windows Hello camera for face recognition on it, which shows its structural design skills.
As for other contents of the screen, we will continue to discuss them in the [Screen] section and then return to the appearance design part.

The C side still uses a simple and practical design. The black chocolate keyboard has a moderate 1.5mm key travel, which is neither too long nor too short, making it suitable for long-term typing. It supports three levels of backlight adjustment, so you can clearly see the keyboard keys even in poor lighting conditions at night.

The power button on the upper right side of the keyboard has an integrated fingerprint recognition function, but because the computer's face recognition function is so easy to use, I basically haven't used fingerprint recognition during this period.

As one of the most core input functions of a laptop computer, the touchpad of MagicBook V 14 has also been greatly optimized and enhanced.

Based on the original oversized touchpad, the MagicBook V 14 2022 model also incorporates an NFC sensing unit. Compared with traditional NFC tags, the sensing area is increased to 346%, and the sensing distance is also increased to 150%, making it more convenient to connect the phone to the computer.

The D side leads the way with pragmatism. The large heat dissipation holes ensure that the machine can output high performance for a long time. The extra-long integrated foot pad design avoids the problem of inconsistent foot pad height, which takes the overall user experience to a higher level.

Because Honor has developed an architectural design that allows for ultra-high integration, the MagicBook V 14 2022 is at the leading level among similar products in terms of weight and thickness.

The MagicBook V 14 weighs only 1.48kg and is only 14.5mm thin. Combined with the overall compact component design, it can be easily put into a handbag and taken with you, allowing you to work without being restricted by location.

However, this does not mean that its interface has been reduced. The expandability of MagicBook V 14 is still very strong.

On the left side are the USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C interface (supports PD fast charging and DP video output), a full-function Thunderbolt 4 interface, and a 3.5mm headphone jack; on the right side are the USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A interface and the HDMI 2.0 interface.

It completely covers all the interfaces used in office work. You no longer need to carry a troublesome expansion dock with you. It is really convenient.

Remote control and touch screen

Since the MagicBook V 14 2022 is equipped with a 2.5K high-resolution screen, there is no need to worry about the screen clarity. The screen has no graininess and is very delicate.

In addition, the screen perfectly covers 100% sRGB color gamut and a color depth of 1.07 billion colors, and the screen brightness can reach up to 400 nits. Therefore, in addition to regular text work, it is also very sufficient for design, and all colors can be accurately presented on the screen.

In order to take the user's screen experience to the next level, Honor has also equipped this screen with many "killer" technologies.

First of all, this screen adopts a 3:2 productivity ratio, so users can see more content at a glance when browsing web pages and Word documents, greatly improving office efficiency.

Secondly, this screen supports a high refresh rate of 90Hz, so when dragging files, you can clearly feel that it is smoother than an ordinary laptop; and this screen has also passed the ZREAL Frame Enjoy Ultra HD certification, so when watching streaming content, you can also get a smoother viewing experience.

The ten-point touch function can replace the touchpad to a certain extent. It is more convenient to adjust the window size or move the window with your fingers. However, for the ultimate use of this function, please continue to read the content of [Featured Functions] to learn~

Features

Next, let’s talk about the special features of MagicBook V 14 2022. In order to let everyone truly experience the same usage experience as me, I will talk to you based on my actual usage scenarios and explain why I think the smart functions of MagicBook V 14 2022 have benefited me a lot.

As a digital editor, I naturally have to travel frequently, so remote meetings and manuscript review are commonplace.

However, the remote conferencing experience of another laptop I originally used was very poor. Not only was the camera picture very blurry, so blurry that people couldn't see my face at all without turning on the lights, the microphone also had poor sound reception and was prone to picking up noise. Not to mention the speakers, the thin sound effect made me feel that it was not even as good as the flat-head headphones I wore a few years ago.

So I am particularly resistant to remote meetings and would rather make a phone call than hold a meeting on the computer.

However, during the past few days of working with MagicBook V 14 2022, I found that I had changed. I gradually began to use MagicBook V 14 2022 to actively initiate remote meetings and communicate and hold meetings with colleagues frequently.

And this is precisely the change that the smart office experience of MagicBook V 14 2022 has brought to me.

In terms of camera, the MagicBook V 14 is equipped with a 5-megapixel high-definition wide-angle dual camera that can record 2K resolution video, greatly improving the clarity of the picture. I don’t need to turn on the lights, and I can rely on the brightness of the computer screen to let my colleagues see my face.

Since the camera of MagicBook V 14 2022 supports wide-angle viewing angle, if I have multiple colleagues here and colleagues from other places having a meeting, everyone can appear on camera, so that the remote meeting can also have the atmosphere of an offline meeting.

MagicBook V 14 completely solves the problem of poor audio quality in laptops through 4 microphones with high signal-to-noise ratio. The microphones are arranged in an array on the edge of the C-side, with excellent directional performance and support up to 5 meters of sound pickup. You will never have to repeat the same thing because your colleagues can't hear you clearly.

The four speakers with high and low frequency design can also play out clearly what colleagues say with high fidelity standards. Of course, what I didn’t tell my colleagues is that I often use this computer to listen to music and watch videos, because the speakers with high and low frequency design have such good sound.

I have kept you in suspense just now. Now I will introduce to you the new experience of Honor’s Internet function with the support of touch screen.

Because the touchpad is integrated with NFC function, you only need to put your phone close to the touchpad to immediately start the computer and phone collaboration function. You can directly operate the phone on the computer, and files and pictures can be dragged and dropped. It is even easier to make video calls with the computer camera and microphone.

And thanks to the touch screen configuration, you can also operate the phone interface directly from the screen just like using a mobile phone, making the experience smoother, more natural and intuitive.

If you have other Honor devices, you can also use them for high-speed wireless transmission with MagicBook V 14 2022, just like Honor phones, completely saying goodbye to the feeling of being constrained by transmitting data with data cables. High-speed wireless transmission is the experience that contemporary electronic devices should have.

In addition, the newly added air gesture function of MagicBook V 14 2022 is also very practical. Because when I am showing PPT in a company meeting, stopping to operate the computer to change pages during the presentation will affect the rhythm of the presentation, so I like to use the air gesture function, waving my hands left and right to change pages. It is not only convenient, but also looks very sci-fi.

Of course, you can also use press gestures to control the playback and pause of the video. You can watch videos while eating without dirtying the computer. It is a very user-friendly feature.

It is worth mentioning that the MagicBook V 14 is equipped with a 100W GaN fast charging charger. When you are on a business trip and writing in Starbucks, you only need to plug in the power for 15 minutes to get up to 2.7 hours of office time. After fully charging the 60Wh large battery, you can easily work for 9 hours.

And because all my devices support Type-C charging, when I go out, I only need to bring a charger for the MagicBook V 14 2022, and I don’t need to bring a bunch of charging cables, which makes my business trips easier and less worrying.

Performance: luxurious performance, intelligent scheduling

Finally, coming to the performance aspect, frankly speaking, users do not need to worry about whether the performance of MagicBook V 14 is "enough". What users should consider more is "how to make full use of the performance", because the configuration of MagicBook V 14 2022 is too luxurious.

The MagicBook V 14 2022 we got this time uses the Intel Core standard pressure i7-12700H processor and adopts a new large and small core hybrid architecture design, so the single-core turbo frequency can reach up to 4.7GHz. In actual tests, running Adobe PR to edit 4K videos can be as smooth as silk, without any lag or frame drops.

In terms of graphics, it uses the NVIDIA MX550 independent graphics card. As a highly acclaimed high-performance independent graphics card in the Turing architecture, it has excellent graphics computing performance. Occasionally, when I am on a business trip and play an online game like "Overwatch", it can maintain a very stable 60FPS level with high picture quality.

So it’s not surprising to me that the 3D MARK Fire Ttrike test score is 5406.

The memory uses 16GB LPDDR5 specifications. The large memory allows users to run more software at the same time. For example, when I was writing, I could open more than 20 Chrome browser tabs, 1 Adobe Photoshop, WeChat, Word and other software at the same time without any lag.

The test results are also excellent, and the reading and writing speeds are both in the first tier among mainstream-priced laptop memory.

The 512GB storage pushes the storage capacity of MagicBook V 14 2022 to a new height. There is no need to worry about whether the computer can hold video materials, original camera photos, etc. Even so, the MagicBook V 14 has a full 200GB of available space left in my hands for a long time, and there is no need to consider expanding the storage; the excellent hard disk performance also means that users do not need to worry about whether the hard disk speed is too slow and needs to be replaced.

Some friends may worry that such powerful performance may have a great impact on battery life, but in fact, this is completely unnecessary to worry about.

First, you can freely switch between smart and high-energy modes by pressing the FN+P buttons. The former can provide up to 40W of performance release, while the latter can provide 50W of performance release. You can flexibly switch according to your usage needs.

In addition, Honor has developed its own OS Turbo system-level performance and power consumption optimization engine, which can intelligently identify your current usage scenario to perform system-level resource scheduling, thereby achieving a perfect balance between computer performance and power consumption.

This allows users to fully focus on their work without having to worry about system performance overhead.

Summarize

As mentioned at the beginning, when Honor announced its entry into the laptop market, no one thought about the changes it would bring to the laptop market.

Now, given Honor’s performance, there is obviously no need to worry about what changes it has brought to the notebook computer market, because it has opened up a whole new track in the notebook computer market.

As a business notebook integrated with smart functions, MagicBook V 14 is obviously a product worth waiting for consumers to go on the market. The exquisite and delicate body craftsmanship, the superior screen display quality, the extremely outstanding business office experience and the eye-catching and meticulous functions make MagicBook V 14 2022 the most worthwhile option among business notebooks in the same price range.

If you are looking for a high-quality Windows business notebook, the MagicBook V 14 2022 is undoubtedly a very competitive product in the entire market and is highly recommended for purchase.

As a winner of Toutiao's Qingyun Plan and Baijiahao's Bai+ Plan, the 2019 Baidu Digital Author of the Year, the Baijiahao's Most Popular Author in the Technology Field, the 2019 Sogou Technology and Culture Author, and the 2021 Baijiahao Quarterly Influential Creator, he has won many awards, including the 2013 Sohu Best Industry Media Person, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Beijing Third Place, the 2015 Guangmang Experience Award, the 2015 China New Media Entrepreneurship Competition Finals Third Place, and the 2018 Baidu Dynamic Annual Powerful Celebrity.