Tale of Two Laptops
Last night, I traded my iPad Pro for a Huawei MateBook X Pro (2018) (hereafter "matebook") and now I'm going to spend some time comparing this laptop to my current laptop, a Panasonic Let's Note CF-SV8 (hereafter "SV8"). Both machines are very similar in some ways and incredibly different in others, so I thought I might take the opportunity to write a little bit about this. This is not a review of either machine and is probably a bit premature as I've had the SV8 for a few months and the matebook only a few hours. Lets start with the objective boring stuff, the specs. SV8 (CF-SV8RDAVS) MateBook CPU i5-8365U 4c/8t 1.6GHz Base, 4.1GHz boost, 6MB L3, 15w i7-8550U 4c/8t 1.8GHz Base, 4.0GHz boost, 8MB L3, 15w RAM 8GB LPDDR3-2133 (soldered) 16GB LPDDR3-2133 (soldered) GPU Intel UHD Intel UHD 620 & Nvidia GeForce MX150 SSD 256GB m.2 NVMe 2280 512GB m.2 NVMe 2280 Other Storage DVD-RW & SD XC slot - Ports 3x USB3.0, USB-C Thunderbolt 3, HDMI, VGA, 1GbE Ethernet…