HONOR MagicBook 16 - AMD Ryzen 5 5600H processor 16GB+512GB Windows 11 144hz - £494.99 with code @ Honor

I purchased this a few week ago albeit for £50 more and have been thoroughly enjoying my experience.

+ Ordering process was quick and easy
+ Delivery was DHL next day
+ Windows 11 setup was easy, no bugs so far and printer was setup easily (first time W11 user and 4 year old Cannon printer)
+ WIFI 6 is OMG amazing, getting for 500+MB everywhere, better than any of our phones and tablet
+ Cinebech single core score was 1428 and multi core was 8994
+ Build quality is amongst some of the best I experienced, having visited my local Curry's and played about with a few much more expensive laptops
+ 4k video playback was perfectly smooth, absolutely no issues
+ Battery lasted exactly the stated time of ~8 hours with moderate use
+ The Full HD screen is really good, ultra thin bezels and sharp (I also use an extrnal 1080p monitor)
- Only issue I had was in Davinci Resolve, where playback stuttered a lot in the timeline (exports were perfectly fine). I tried a lot of different things but I guess if your video editing then a dedicated graphics card might perform better. Exporting a 3GB, 6 minute 4k video, took 11 minutes without any optimisations. No idea how that would compare to other laptops but it's perfectly fine for my use.

Unless your a heavy gamer, or video editing complex 4k videos, I cant see why you'd need anything more powerful.

I would have thought this laptop is much more powerful than most people need. (edited)

only FHD resolution. very bad

Seems like a great spec for a general user? - in my case, I'd be buying for an elderly parent for Web, email, office-type usage. The bigger screen is a real plus!

Any actual users here? What's the build quality like etc.?

Heated OP!

Just arrived this morning. Came rattling around in the biggest box I've ever seen for a laptop and half open due to poor taping.

Laptop box looks undamaged so hopefully the bit of bubble wrap helped it.🤞

Can someone give a more in-depth comparison and verdict of this one and the ASUS VIVOBOOK 15 OLED please as my final decision is between these two. Thank you

Assuming this is 512gb SSD right?

Do Honor offer extended warranties or just 1 year?

Does anyone know if the USB ports are USB 2.0 or 3.0?

Seems like a great deal. 16GB RAM under £500 (albeit fixed). A good processor and good build quality. 1080P Full HD is definitely good enough. (edited)

It's also on topcashback just now too, just got £28 back, 🏻

Just had mine delivered. Packaging from Honor is awful. Massive broken box with the laptop box rattling around under a pointless bit of bubble wrap
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Any know a decent case for this ?

When I click 'Get deal' takes me back to same page! What am I doing wrong?

Type the code in at checkout,10% off the reduced price of £550, it works fine,

Got £50 off so total came up as £549 .....assume im doing something wrong

Will the watch and buds be a free bundle on friday

The code doesn’t seem to work for me. I’ve tried typing it in manually and copy & paste.

I'm looking at getting this for daily work use and photoshop and a bit of web design. Will this be ok?

I’m after a laptop for work with a budget of max £500. I use outlook email, excel, adobe pdf viewer and Microsoft Teams video meetings 100% of the time and from time to time use autocad and design review for working on drawings . Was comparing to a HP 14s fq1005na at same price. It was Ryzen 7 with 8gb but some said the screen was poor quality. Never heard of Honor before. Would you recommend?

Mulled over this for a while but opted for the Magicbook 15. If you can live with the 8gb Ram and less ports then you can get that for £360 (and potential 8% Quidco / Topcashback for any of these)

Looking for a decent sleeve for this laptop