Huawei launches new MacBook Air rival with OLED display and up to 32GB RAM

[Redaktion]

The Huawei MateBook 14 HarmonyOS edition is now official in China. This new MacBook Air rival weighs around 2.86 pounds, measures 14.5mm at its thinnest, and sports a 14.2-inch OLED display. The starting price is around $968.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Huawei-launches-new-MacBook-Air-rival-with-OLED-display-and-up-to-32GB-RAM.1278290.0.html

[32 GB RAM not enough]

32 GB RAM are unfortunately not enough for Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_M: reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1sq94qx/is_anyone_getting_real_coding_work_done_with: "Is anyone getting real coding work done with Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-UD-Q4_K_M on a 32GB Mac in opencode, claude code or similar?".

Another user says:

I super regret not getting a 64gb mac (I have 32gb too)... if only I could have known local ai was gonna take off before I bought it 3 years ago

Thus, a 48 GB RAM option is required (of course, straight to 64 GB RAM is also an option).

[LivingInHarmony]

Abid Ahsan author of this article, I must tell you to correct towards the end of the last paragraph of your article to readers, this is wrong. Especially next month in May coming from Huawei Support UK that the company plans to ship some new products globally, before you will end up sounding stupid by then. Windows have been banned from renewal to Huawei since March 2025 with no Kirin PC chip driver cooperation & don't even think random Linux will even be viable with no mainstream devs, stashed Intel chips dont last and concentrated as sell off in China only market for Chinese Linux Deepin PCs since then to consumers and enterprise. Use your logic and read the room, clearly Huawei is going all in vertically integrated HarmonyOS and Kirin X chips going forward as of May 2025 introduction/debut followed by retail sales since June in China last year. There is no such thing as China strategic only software, it is temporarily as its strongest market to test and scale up user base first and foremost, since they are starting from scratch again this past year to grow long term future of global post ban strategy.