Huawei debuts yet another MacBook-looking laptop: The $999 Matebook 13

Valentina Palladino


If Huawei's Matebook X Pro was its answer to Apple's MacBook Pro, the new Matebook 13 is the company's answer to the MacBook Air. At CES, Huawei introduced a new series into its laptop line, and its flagship is a 13-inch Ultrabook that borrows just as much from its premium Matebook X Pro as it does from Apple's revamped thin-and-light notebook.
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The Matebook 13 resembles a slightly shrunken version of the Matebook X Pro, with a satin finish on its aluminum alloy body and diamond-cut edges. Since it's a 13-inch device, there's less space around the keyboard than there is on the Matebook X Pro, giving the keyboard and trackpad area a similar look to Apple's MacBook. There's not a lot of space on the sides of the keys, and the trackpad is a bit narrow, but Huawei did include its combined fingerprint reader and power button at the top-right corner of the keyboard.
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