Huawei teases MateBook Pro S - a laptop that somehow weighs only 798 grams, making the LG Gram 14 look hefty

Q: What are the confirmed weight and chassis material of the Huawei MateBook Pro S?

The Huawei MateBook Pro S is confirmed to weigh 798 grams. The laptop uses a metal chassis.

Q: How many and what type of ports does the MateBook Pro S include?

The MateBook Pro S includes two USB-C ports, with one USB-C port on each side of the laptop. The primary article says little else about other port types or counts, as the official unveiling had not yet occurred.

Q: Does the MateBook Pro S appear to use active cooling or passive cooling?

The article indicates the MateBook Pro S appears to use active cooling. It says vents on the underside suggest it has a fan, so it is seemingly not passively cooled.

Q: What operating system will the MateBook Pro S ship with?

The MateBook Pro S will ship with Huawei's HarmonyOS rather than Windows 11. This is stated in the primary article.

This is the lightest notebook ever made, in fact, aside from a couple of obscure Fujitsu laptops produced for the Japanese market only.

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Darren Allan

Tech Reporter

Published Jul 29, 2026 1:00 PM CDT

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TL;DR: Huawei has teased the MateBook Pro S, a laptop with a metal chassis weighing just 798 grams, which is a lot lighter than the MacBook Air 13, and even the featherweight LG Gram 14. Only a few niche Fujitsu models targeted at the Japanese market have ever been lighter. There are worries here, though, about the performance of the CPU.

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Huawei has been showing off its new MateBook laptop which is unbelievably lightweight.

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As Notebookcheck reports (via VideoCardz), Huawei teased the MateBook Pro S ahead of its full revelation next week (on August 5), letting us know that the laptop somehow only weighs 798 grams.

That's a pretty incredible achievement for the weight of a notebook, and it's over a third lighter than the MacBook Air 13-inch - and almost 200 grams lighter than the featherweight LG Gram 14.

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Technically, only a couple of obscure Fujitsu laptop models (which were mostly sold in Japan) are lighter than the MateBook Pro S. If you're looking at the global picture, as far as I'm aware, this Huawei laptop is as light as it gets. The MateBook Pro S uses a metal chassis, too, in case you were wondering.

In terms of specs aside from the weight, it's an ARM model built around a Kirin XE90 CPU with 10-cores (clocked at a very modest 2.45GHz). You get 16GB of RAM, though, at the entry-level (or 32GB if you prefer), and 512GB of storage (up to 1TB).

We don't know much else about the device - remember, the official unveiling is still to come - but we do know it has two USB-C ports (one on each side) and seemingly it's not passively cooled (vents on the underside suggest it has a fan).

There are two cameras and a very roomy touchpad, with the MateBook Pro S being available in five colorways.

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What are the confirmed weight and chassis material of the Huawei MateBook Pro S?

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How many and what type of ports does the MateBook Pro S include?

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What operating system will the MateBook Pro S ship with?

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As for when this device will go on sale, it'll likely be on shelves in August over in China, but as for a broader release, we'll just have to see. There is an additional catch on the software side, though, in that the MateBook won't run Windows 11, but Huawei's HarmonyOS instead.