Huawei unveils its MateBook E, a Surface 8 Pro competitor with 2.5K OLED panel

(Pocket-lint) - Huawei has unveiled its caller MateBook E, a Windows 11 tablet that's conscionable 7.99 millimetres thick.

The MateBook E weighs successful astatine 709 grams and has a detachable keyboard. It has an OLED sheet that runs astatine 2.5K successful a 16:10 facet ratio. The show is 12.5 inches and boasts 400 nits brightness.

Other features see a blazing accelerated PCIe SSD, a 42Wh artillery with 65W accelerated charging, Bluetooth 5.1, WiFi 6 and progressive stylus support. There's adjacent a Thunderbolt 4 port, allowing you to connect immoderate earnestly fancy accessories.

The instrumentality volition beryllium disposable successful 2 colourways that are translated arsenic Nebula Ash and Interstellar Blue.

Currently the instrumentality has lone been announced successful China, wherever retail terms starts astatine CNY 5,999 which equates to conscionable nether $1,000. This gets you an 11th gen Intel i5 processor, 8GB RAM and a 256GB SSD.

The marque volition besides connection a Core i7 spec with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD for CNY 6,999 oregon astir $1,250.

The evident examination is Microsoft's Surface Pro 8, akin successful signifier origin and specification. If the Chinese pricing is thing to spell by, the Huawei exemplary volition connection overmuch amended value, particularly connected its precocious extremity Core i7 model.

No connection yet connected availability extracurricular of China, but we surely anticipation it won't beryllium excessively agelong earlier we tin effort 1 out.

Writing by Luke Baker. Originally published connected 18 November 2021.