Honor’s 1kg super laptop goes back to Intel in 2025. Introduction
This is Honor’s third MagicBook Art 14 laptop in about a year — the first featured an.
Introduction
This is Honor’s third MagicBook Art 14 laptop in about a year — the first featured an Intel Core Ultra 7 155H, and the second one had Snapdragon X Elite and runs Windows 11 on ARM. This one makes a return to Intel silicon with the Core Ultra 7 255H, a processor that’s a generational improvement in technology.
If you’re unfamiliar with the MagicBook Art 14, it’s Honor’s thin-and-light 1.03kg laptop with a 14.6-inch OLED display and 60Wh battery. And, more importantly, an attractive price — lower than the likes of the Apple MacBook Air, the Dell XPS 13 and 14, and the Asus Zenbook 14.
The MagicBook Art 14 2025 is available in Mocha Brown and Emerald Green (our review unit). Like its predecessor, the 2025 model comes in a single configuration in overseas markets with a 1TB SSD and 32GB of RAM. The laptop ships a USB-C cable and a 65W charger.
You can buy the MagicBook Art 14 from Honor’s own website. Normally, it’s £1,500/€1,500/CNY 8,500, but Honor often discounts the machine down to around £1,100/€1,100 through various promos.Design and build quality, ports
Honor hasn’t changed the design of the laptop since the first model, and that’s no bad thing. It’s already impressively light at just 1.03kg. To put that into context, the MacBook Air 13 is 1.24kg.
Honor managed to achieve such a weight with a mixture of lightweight materials. The chassis is made out of magnesium alloy. The keyboard is a titanium alloy. The two fans are made of aluminum. The antenna and vapor chamber cooling system are integrated.
The laptop has a slightly textured surface that’s pleasant to touch. It’s less slippery than the silver Snapdragon model we last handled, not that we expect people will carry it in their hands all that much. But that finish smudged up easily; this one doesn’t.
Because Honor decided to offload the camera to its own magnetic module on the side of the laptop, the display enjoys symmetrical bezels on three sides — there’s a slightly thicker bezel on the bottom. The display is a 14.6-inch OLED touchscreen with an aspect ratio of 3:2 — an Honor and Huawei favorite. More on the panel in a bit!
Back to the magnetic camera module. The tuck-away camera module is undoubtedly innovative. It sits flush inside the left corner of the laptop and can be popped in or out with a finger press. The module attaches very securely in the laptop body, and it can be tucked in whichever way you want — even with the pins outward (though you shouldn’t do that).
It’s a clever way to deal with the camera on a laptop but it does push the two ports on the left side of the MagicBook Art 14 a bit further down. It’s an unbalanced look that may irk some.
The tuck-away camera module is undoubtedly innovative. It sits flush inside the left corner of the laptop and can be popped in or out by a finger press. The module attaches very securely in the laptop body, and it can be tucked in whichever way you want — even with the pins outward (though you shouldn’t do that).
The only two USB-C ports on the laptop are just below the magnetic camera. One is a 3.2 Gen2 (10Gbps), the other is a Thunderbolt 4 (40Gbps), marked by a tiny lightning. This is the port you should use to connect more powerful peripherals, like a 120Hz monitor, for example.
There’s one USB-A 3.2 (10Gbps) port on the right side, along with an HDMI 2.1 (4K@60Hz), and a 3.5mm headset and microphone jack.
You get a fingerprint scanner with Windows Hello support inside the power button and it works without issues. It supports fingerprint caching so a single press will power on the machine and automatically log you into Windows once it boots.
