Honor MagicBook Art 14 innovates with a removable webcam and backs it up
with some impressive laptop specs

Date:
Thu, 18 Jul 2024 16:57:29 +0000

Description:
Has Honor lost the plot or the webcam with its new idea for a detachable camera on a laptop? We dont think so.

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Honor has revealed a new MagicBook laptop which is a slick-looking device,
and the notebook comes with a novel trick up its sleeve a removable webcam.

The Honor MagicBook Art 14 (2024) is a svelte laptop (weighing a sliver over 1kg, and its 13mm thick), and its premium lines and a 14-inch OLED display with thin bezels arent troubled by having to fit in an integrated webcam.

Thats because, as mentioned, the webcam is removable, and can be stored in a slot on the side of the laptop (as if it were a chunky SD card). As shown in an unboxing video highlighted by Toms Hardware (see below), you simply pop
out the webcam from its storage slot, and attach it to the top of the laptop lid (magnetically) then youre good to go. (Image credit: Honor / Tom's Hardware)

The specs of the MagicBook Art 14 include the OLED display sporting a sharp resolution of 3,120 x 2,080 (yes, its a 3:2 aspect ratio) and a 120Hz refresh rate.

The laptop also packs an Intel Core Ultra 5 125H or Core Ultra 7 155H CPU (Meteor Lake, 14 and 16-cores respectively) and a 1TB SDD, with speedy
LPDDR5X system RAM. Its no slouch, put it this way, but the downside is that as Toms observes, the Honor MagicBook Art 14 is only going to be on sale in China.

That said, it might come to other countries eventually, or more to the point, the idea for a detachable webcam that it ushers in could arrive on other laptops. Analysis: Detachable reality

We always like to see a laptop with an innovative idea, and the webcam for
the MagicBook Art 14 certainly qualifies in that respect.

Its a solution that has a few benefits. Firstly, when unattached, the webcam doesnt spoil the premium look of the Art 14, as already mentioned. Secondly, in terms of privacy, you can be sure youre safe from any prying eyes when the camera is removed and stored away (theres no need for any unsightly black
tape here). Thirdly, theres the versatility of having a front-facing or rear camera at will, as you can attach the unit facing either way.

The obvious downside with this idea is that a removable camera is also a losable camera. That said, if youre diligent and always put the webcam straight back in its storage slot after youre done with the device, then it shouldnt ever get lost. In theory, anyway.

Overall, we think this is a pretty smart idea, and itll be interesting to see if it catches on at all with other notebook makers out there. You might also like The best Windows laptops: our picks for every budget We've chosen all
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