Honor MagicBook Art 14 2025 in for review

You may have heard of the MagicBook Art 14, Honor’s super-svelte 1kg laptop with an impressive 14.6-inch OLED display. We reviewed the 2024 model in both Intel and Snapdragon configuration and loved it!

Now that we have a new model for 2025 it’s time to see what it’s about. It may not look vastly different, but it’s better in some significant ways. Before we go over them, let’s get the unboxing out of the way.

The Honor MagicBook Art 14 2025 comes in Mocha Brown, Sunrise White, and Emerald Green and starts at £1,499.99 (€1,699). As before, you get a single configuration – 32 GB of RAM, 1 TB SSD, and the Core Ultra 7 255H.

Unboxing the MagicBook Art 14 2025

So what’s new with the 2025 model? First off is the SoC. It’s a Series 2 Intel Core Ultra processor, and it’s a big step up from the 155H inside the previous-gen model. While still a unit with 16 physical cores, the processor can now jump up to a faster 5.1GHz (vs 4.8GHz) turbo speed and claims a faster 2.0GHz (vs 1.4GHz) general clock speed.

The chipset itself is a generation newer, based on TSMC’s N3B – a 3nm node and a big jump up from the 7nm of the previous unit.

The display is better in two key ways – it’s brighter, rated at up to 1,600 nits (up from 700), and it has a new anti-reflective coating, which is indeed noticeable (not that the previous model was overly reflective).

There are other improvements, of course, but what’s equally important is that Honor kept what made the previous generation good. This is a nearly 15-inch OLED laptop that weighs less than just about any of its mainstream rivals.

And Honor didn’t achieve this by using cheap or fiddly materials – no, the MagicBook Art 14 has titanium alloykeyboard, aerospace-grade magnesium body, and aluminum for the cooling fans.

The result is beautiful, nicely textured, and unique in more ways than one! Well, have to get back to reviewing it now, stay tuned!