Despite its emergence as the worlds leading producer of tech hardware, Chinas development of computer operating systems has lagged behind Microsoft and Apple, whose Windows and macOS have cornered the global market for decades.
The new MateBook Fold and MateBook Pro both run on HarmonyOS 5, the latest version of an operating system Huawei began developing in 2015 and introduced five years later on its Mate series smartphones.
It began developing the laptop prototypes in 2021.
The Harmony laptop gives the world a new choice, Yu Chengdong, head of Huaweis consumer business group, said during a live-streamed launch event. We kept on doing the hard things but the right things.
The base model of the MateBook Fold, which does not have a physical keyboard and offers an 18-inch OLED double screen when fully extended, will sell for C24 000 R60 000.