Today I’ll tell you about the novelty of 2022, which, in my opinion, will become another hit among affordable laptops for work. The Huawei Matebook 16s is powered by a powerful 14-core Intel Core i7-12700H processor. At the first quick acquaintance, this workhorse was pleasantly surprised by the performance and quietness of the cooling system. I’ll tell you about the pros and cons of the first acquaintance in the review below.

Specifications
CPU |
Intel Core i7-12700H |
video card |
Embedded Intel Iris Xe |
RAM |
LPDDR5 16 GB 4800 MHz, soldered on the board, timings 52-44-44-104 CR1 |
Storage device |
M.2 NVME SSD 512 GB PCIe 3.0 x4 |
Screen |
10-point touchscreen, 16″ IPS, 3:2 ratio, glossy with oleophobic coating, resolution 2520*1680, brightness 300 nits, |
Sound |
2 speakers |
wifi |
802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax |
Bluetooth |
5.2 |
The fingerprint scanner |
There is |
Battery |
84 Wh |
Housing material |
Metal |
I really like the Huawei MateBook 16s laptop. Available in the popular Space Grey. It looks light and compact for carrying in a backpack, despite the screen size of 16″. The build quality is excellent. The top cover and the area around the keyboard are made of metal, and the surface is pleasant to the touch. The screen can be called conditionally frameless, because the glass completely reaches the edges of the screen. The thickness of the side black edging is 6 mm, and on top 8 mm. I really liked the screen. Resolution 2520*1680. Viewing angles are excellent and the picture remains just as rich. The matrix is used by IPS. The surface of the screen is mirrored with an oleophobic coating, and the touch is for 10 touches. The brightness is stated at 300 nits, and the street needs to take cover in the shade. The maximum refresh rate is 60Hz.
Air for cooling the processor is taken from the bottom area and from the end side of the screen on the sides, and blown out at the end under the screen in the middle. The cooling system is very quiet and pleasing to the ear. Even when using load tests, no fan roar was noticed. The reset of frequencies due to heating occurs briefly only at the very beginning of a high load. If the load becomes continuous, then the system understands that it is necessary to spin up the fans and the frequency is restored. Huawei Matebook 16s uses 2 fans and 2 heat pipes to cool the CPU of the Huawei Matebook 16s. The tubes are not installed through, but end and the thickness is impressive.
To open the bottom cover, you need to unscrew the visible screws and pry the plastic latches around the perimeter. The user can only replace the drive. In our case, a 512 GB M.2 NVME SSD is installed. The Huawei Matebook 16s battery surprised not only with its declared capacity of 84 Wh, but also with its size: it looks impressive. The RAM is soldered on the board, so you can not increase the volume. SSD and memory speeds will be slower.
For convenient opening of the Huawei Matebook 16s laptop, a recess is made in the lower part, in which two microphones are located. Opening with one hand is easy and simple. There are rubber feet on the bottom to keep it stable on the surface. On quartz vinyl, I managed to open the screen with one hand, but on the tabletop it constantly slid. Marvelous. From the side of the hinges, the case looks thicker. On the front side, there are bevels on the sides and it looks thinner.
Objectively, the thickness of the case allows you to place a lan port, but for some reason the manufacturer decided to abandon it. Of the ports and connectors, there is HDMI, 3.5 mm for connecting headphones, 2 USB-A 3.2 Gen1, USB type-C Gen2 and Thunderbolt4. The laptop is charging on both type-c ports. Comes with a 90W charger.
Keyboard without numeric keypad on the right. Under the screen, there is a separate power button with a fingerprint scanner. Glass touch pad of impressive size. Supports all modern navigation gestures. I didn’t notice any phantom triggers. Very responsive and comfortable to use. It really does feel like a quality item. On the sides of the keyboard are stereo speaker grilles. The sound is quite loud, but out of the box without additional settings there are a lot of high frequencies and few low ones. This moment can be smoothed out with settings. With a serious load on the processor, the area under the brushes while typing does not cause comfort. Only the upper part of the screen becomes warm. Key travel is pleasant. The laptop was ordered from China, so the Cyrillic engraving is initially missing. There are two levels of illumination. The owners did the engraving.
The Huawei Matebook 16s is powered by an Intel Core i7-12700H processor from the Alder Lake generation. This is a 14-core 20-thread processor that was released in the first quarter of 2022. What he really is? 6 performance cores with a maximum frequency of 4.7 GHz and 8 energy efficient cores with a maximum frequency of 3.5 GHz. The base TDP is 45W and the maximum is 115W.
The video subsystem is built-in and it is Iris Xe graphics. Below is a test in Furmark and the results of the AIDA64 test and the benchmark from World of tanks. The latter was tested in fulhd resolution and laptop native 2520*1680. The maximum frequency is 1400 MHz.
LPDDR5 RAM with a total capacity of 16 GB operates in dual-channel mode at a frequency of 4800 MHz. Latency is high, but the Huawei Matebook 16s is not a gaming laptop either.
Below is information on the drive and its speeds.


In AIDA64, a stress test was run for 15 minutes to understand how the cooling system copes with loads. A short-term drop in processor performance was noticed literally at the very beginning. In the first seconds, the fans were not audible. When the system realized that the load was continuous, not short-term, it started the fans. After reviewing this laptop, I was pleasantly surprised by the quietness of the cooling system.

Conclusion
You can buy a Huawei Matebook 16s laptop at the Aliexpress sale, which starts on November 1.
The build quality is excellent. The 14-core i7-12700H is capable of handling today’s modern workloads. Yes, you won’t be able to play games much because of the built-in video card, but this solution is not for gamers. The screen is crisp and has excellent viewing angles. The aspect ratio of 3:2 is the best for typing code or typing text in the editor. The cooling system is finely tuned and does not bother the user with unnecessary noise. I did not like the sound a bit, but you can play with the settings. Personally, I like the presence of a digital block on the right and the ability to change RAM, but for a laptop owner, these disadvantages are insignificant. The touch pad is easy to control, the cursor moves smoothly without jerks. The screen supports 10 touches. I think that the Huawei Matebook 16s laptop has definitely found its wide audience. My friend bought a laptop through an intermediary in China and cost $ 1200 with delivery. At this price, it’s just a gift.
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