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€1,417 (€1,700 inc VAT)
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ancy a trip to France? Right now that’s the easiest way to buy the Honor MagicBook Art 14 Snapdragon, as the laptop is only on sale there, China, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Honor is monitoring sales in France before it decides whether to sell it in the UK, so a 4.9-star rating on Honor’s French site is a promising sign.
Start using the MagicBook and it’s easy to see why it’s so loved. The screen is a 14.6in expanse of OLED beauty with a super-sharp 3,120 x 2,080 resolution. It’s almost perfectly tuned to the DCI-P3 gamut, too, with 97% coverage out of a 98% volume. Add a peak brightness of 486cd/m 2 and crisp whites, plus solid colour accuracy (an average Delta E of 1.36), and you have a great panel.
Honor amplifies the screen’s effect by including slim bezels on all sides, and that includes the top bezel. That’s because there’s no webcam to squeeze in, with Honor instead including a magnetic, detachable 1080p webcam that’s housed in the left of the chassis. When you want to use it, press on the edge and it bounces out, at which point a light appears at the top of the display to show you where to clip it. The magnets then snap it solidly into place. It’s all very slick, not to mention privacy-friendly, and it can even point backwards.