Huawei MateBook Review

Lisa Gade reviews the Huawei MateBook, a 12” Windows 10 tablet with optional keyboard folio, pen and dock. The 1.4 lb. (640g) MateBook is a slim, fanless tablet with Intel 6th generation Core m3 and m5 CPUs (m7 is coming).
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It’s available with 4 or 8 gigs of DDR3 RAM and a 128, 256 or 512 gig SATA SSD. It has an IPS 3:2 aspect ratio display with 2160 x 1440 resolution and wide color gamut. It works with touch and the optional $59 MatePen that has palm rejection and 2,048 levels of pressure sensitivity. The tablet has a single USB-C Gen 1 port, a headphone jack, stereo speakers and a pogo connector for the optional keyboard case.
The MateBook starts at $699 for the Core m3 with 4 gigs of RAM and a 128 gig SSD (tablet only price). The Core m5 with 8 gigs of RAM and a 512 gig SSD is $1,199. The MateBook Keyboard Portfolio is $129 and the MateDock is $89. The MateBook ships mid-July 2016. it competes with Microsoft Surface Pro 4, the Samsung Galaxy TabPro S and the Dell XPS 12.