With the continuous tightening of the mobile phone market, it is not difficult to see that broadening the product line has become one of the core strategies of major digital brands today, especially various cross-border attempts are endless. For example, the mobile phone manufacturers we are familiar with are constantly extending to the fields of tablets, smart wearables, smart homes, PC notebooks, and even new energy vehicles.
As one of the leading brands in the mobile phone industry, Honor is an up-and-coming star in the consumer PC industry. However, although it has only been four years since its entry, Honor has left its name in the laptop market firmly controlled by Dell, HP and Lenovo with its good product design, excellent hardware quality and innovative technical strength.
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Some time ago, Honor launched the first high-end flagship notebook certified by Windows - Honor MagicBook V14 2022. The entire series of this phone is equipped with OS Turbo technology and the 12th generation Intel Core standard pressure processor, achieving up to 45W performance release. According to official introduction, with the support of OS Turbo, this product's power consumption drops by up to 26.7% in different scenarios such as video conferencing or entertainment drama watching, and the battery life of the entire machine can be increased by up to 73.4% compared to competitors.
Recently, Lei Technology happened to receive a Honor MagicBook V14 2022. As mentioned above, the special thing about this notebook is that it is officially claimed that it is a joint training product of Honor and Intel. It not only has Intel's 12th-generation Core mobile processor platform, but also incorporates many unique technologies. So how does this laptop perform? Let's look down together.
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Appearance: 2.5K mirror screen, thin metal body
From the appearance, the appearance of Honor MagicBook V14 2022 continues the simple and elegant fashionable business style. Currently, this product has only one color scheme of "Starry Sky Gray". The dark gray matte metal A-side processed by precision sandblasting, plus the highly recognizable "HONOR" glossy metal LOGO, exudes a steady and extraordinary business atmosphere in simplicity and low-key.
The body size of this product is 310.28mm×226.6mm×16.95mm, weighing about 1.48kg. It is considered a standard thin and light body type. Users can pick it up and leave at any time, which is very convenient.
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Open the product and a whole piece of pure black glass hits the face. The Honor MagicBook V14 2022 uses a complete 14.2-inch LTPS mirror screen, with a screen pixel reaching 2520*1680, supports 90Hz refresh rate, has 100% sRGB wide color gamut and 400nits high brightness. With high color gamut, high resolution, and high refresh rate, this screen can easily present a smooth and smooth and exquisite picture whether it is for daily office or gaming.
Compared with the common matte screen, the mirror screen has a more transparent appearance. In addition, the borders around this screen are narrower, making it look more exquisite and business-oriented. Unfortunately, the Honor screen does not put any effort into anti-glare. There is serious reflection when there is a light source nearby, and the screen angle needs to be adjusted many times before it can be used normally.
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For office workers, keyboard comfort is also a crucial factor when purchasing.
Honor MagicBook V14 2022 uses a full-size keyboard that supports three-speed backlight. The keyboard area is wide enough and has a 1.5mm key stroke. The feedback during actual typing is pretty good. You can bottom out with just one press and keep it quiet during use. The power-on key on the upper right side of the keyboard is integrated with the fingerprint key, allowing users to realize one-click fingerprint login. A special low key design can also reduce accidentally touch to a certain extent.
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Let us look to the side of the body. The left side of the Honor MagicBook V14 2022 is equipped with two Thunderbolt 4 interfaces, and the right side of the body has a USB 3.2 Gen1 interface and an HDMI interface. From the perspective of business book, such an interface is actually not enough. Users may need to match a dock to meet their own usage needs during daily use.
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Performance: 12th generation Core, performance release is eye-catching
Honor MagicBook V14 2022 uses Intel's 12th generation Core standard voltage processor. Lei Technology received this time is the i5-12500H, with 4 performance cores + 8 energy efficiency cores, a total of 12 cores and 16 threads, a level 3 cache of 18MB, the basic frequency of performance cores 2.5GHz, and the highest turbo frequency is 4.5GHz.
Honor MagicBook V14 2022 has two performance modes, balance mode and high-energy mode. It can be manually adjusted in the system's built-in computer manager, and it can be quickly switched using Fn+P. All our next performance-related tests are performed in high-energy mode.
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After actual testing, the machine CPU-Z single core scored 715.5 points, multi-core scored 5846 points, R20 test 647cb/4530cb, and R23 test 1682cb/10540cb. As shown in the figure, compared with the previous generation of products equipped with the 11th generation Core low-voltage processor, the single-core performance is improved by at least 15%, and the multi-core performance is enhanced by 300%. It can be said that this processor gives efficient computing power to thin and light business notebooks.
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Graphics card, Honor MagicBook V14 2022 is equipped with 80EU Iris Xe core graphics, and the actual 3DMark FireStrike running score is 1334 points. Compared with other laptops that use Iris Xe core graphics, the GPU score of this product is not outstanding, mainly because the core graphics frequency cannot be increased. However, such graphics performance is enough to meet many application scenarios.
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memory, Honor MagicBook V14 2022 is equipped with 16GB LPDDR5 4800MHz high-frequency memory and a 512GB SSD hard disk. We used AIDA64 for memory cache tests. The measured read, write and copy bandwidths are 67267MB/s, 58979MB/s, and 66564MB/s respectively, with a delay of 112.3ns. Using CrystalDiskMark for read and write tests, the sequential read and write speed of the hard disk can reach 6665/4732MB/s.
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Finally, look at the comprehensive test. In the CrossMark test, this product scored 1672 points, productivity scored 1543 points, creativity scored 1933 points, and response scored 1377 points. All three scores are at the top level of thin and light laptops at present, indicating that Honor MagicBook V14 does not have any pressure to complete various productivity-related applications.
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To sum up, the i5-12500H equipped with Honor MagicBook V14 2022 performs relatively strongly. Although the Iris Xe core graphics are slightly insufficient, its overall performance has exceeded that of most mobile CPUs at present, and even surpassed the performance of some desktop processors. Whether it is daily office work or light games, it should be easy to get it.
Experience: Business office, light gaming worry-free
In actual use, the office experience of Honor MagicBook V14 2022 is very comfortable. It not only perfectly meets my daily work needs, but also has excellent performance in some highly loaded office scenes. For example, using Photoshop to post-process the product photos needed in the article, and using Adobe Premiere to simply render, preview, export, etc., the experience is quite comfortable.
In addition to the regular office experience, Honor is also equipped with intelligent functions represented by "multi-screen collaboration".With the help of multi-screen collaboration function, users can achieve cross-system and cross-device collaboration. They only need to touch the NFC sensing area on the right side of the touchpad with Honor devices, and connect the phone to computers, tablets, etc. to realize file transmission and multi-screen collaboration. Use the touch screen to smoothly operate the phone on the computer, greatly improving office efficiency.
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In response to the current demand for online video conferencing and online classes, Honor MagicBook V 14 2022 specially added a series of smart meeting functions to people working from home and going to school. The 5 million high-definition wide-angle dual camera on the body can shoot 1440P HD pictures, making the video conferencing and online video chat clearer; the unique four-microphone array allows you to pick up sounds clearly at a distance of about 5 meters, improving the experience during online meetings.
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In addition to the office experience, we also tested the entertainment attributes of this product. Here we selected three games, "Tomb Raider: Shadow", "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" and "League of Legends" for frame testing.
, League of Legends
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"League of Legends" can be regarded as the most mainstream multiplayer game representative work on the market. Honor MagicBook V 14 2022 runs "League of Legends" with full resolution and extremely high picture quality. The laning period can basically be stable at around 120FPS. It will occasionally drop to 80-90FPS during team battles and then rebound, so you can easily play.
. Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
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To fully utilize the strength of this high-reflash screen, then a mainstream FPS is of course indispensable. In the case of 1920*1200 and low image quality, "Counter-Strike: Global Offensive" can run to 124FPS in benchmark, and can also be maintained at 90FPS during the actual game. The screen has no shadows, but occasionally there is a feeling of not following the hands.
, Tomb Raider: Shadow
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As one of the representative works of 3A games in recent years, the game scene of "Tomb Raider: Shadow" is very complex, and it puts great pressure on the CPU and GPU. After we set the resolution to 1920×1200, we select the lowest special effects, turn off vertical synchronization, and run the Benchmark test program that comes with the game. The final average frame rate is 29FPS, and the running screen effect during the actual game test is also smooth enough.
From the actual performance, the performance of i5-12500H is enough to ensure that office software, light photo editing and video editing can run smoothly; Honor's unique smart functions also add a lot of color to the office experience of this laptop; as for a thin and light notebook, it is quite amazing to get such results in such a 3A game, and there is naturally no problem in playing various online games.
Others: Dual baking power consumption is 45W, daily battery life is 9 hours
Next, we used AIDA64 FPU and FurMark to test the baking machine. The room temperature was 25 degrees during the test, and the test was carried out in high-energy mode.
In the case of a single baking FPU, the peak power consumption of i5-12500H can reach 55W, and then gradually stabilize at around 45W, with a full core frequency of 3.0GHz, basically running against the temperature control line.
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After 20 minutes of double baking, the power consumption of this i5-12500H was finally stable at around 26W, the temperature was 75 degrees, the full core frequency was 2.4GHz, and the power consumption of the core display Iris Xe can reach a maximum of around 18W, the GPU core temperature was 82 degrees, and the frequency was 1.3GHz.
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Finally, let's take a look at the battery life performance.With the energy efficiency advantages of the 12th generation Core processor platform and Honor’s internal system tuning, Honor MagicBook V14 2022 shows the strength advantages of thin and light business capital. In the unplugged state, the final result is 8 hours and 39 minutes using the modern office test of PCMark 10. This way, even if you don’t carry a power charging cable when going out, you can have efficient office performance guarantees.
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Summary:
Advantages:
, twelfth generation Core standard pressure processor support;
, 2.5K+90Hz high-quality screen;
. Product design with a strong business atmosphere;
insufficient:
. The nuclear display performance release is slightly conservative;
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After several days of evaluation, Honor MagicBook V14 2022 left a pretty good impression on me. Although the battery life is not as "magical" as imagined, this product still shows us the "benchmark" style that business should have in terms of workmanship, performance, functions, screen, interaction, etc., and adds the happiness of office and travel to users.
Overall, Honor MagicBook V14 2022 is indeed a new laptop product suitable for office workers and college students. If you are a newcomer in the workplace and are about to enter the workplace to ride the wind and waves, want to buy a laptop to work; or a prospective college student who wants to buy a laptop for study, then this product should become a "good assistant" in your work, entertainment, and life.
