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Huawei has a very popular sub-brand for smart phones named 'Mate' (http://consumer.huawei.com/minisite/worldwide/mate8/). I guess that's why they are using Matebook for new laptops.

Maybe it will do better in Australia and the UK :) [edit: Argentina is gonna love it too.]

Thought the same, and when I saw the actual product, it just felt like a ripoff of MacBook. MacBook, MateBook.

How is this a ripoff of a MacBook, of all things? It's far closer to a Surface Pro in its target audience and basic functionality (tablet, most notably).

I meant the name and the likeness to the MacBook name.

MacBook

MateBook

But there are also the Chromebook and Surface Book, so it`s hardly the only one going with this theme.

I'm not criticising the product, I just said it /felt/ like that.

And you know... how laptops were also referred to as notebooks decades ago.

Definitely, in fact as far back as 1988-89, but Apple called their "notebooks" Powerbooks starting in 1991 before anyone else was using -Book in the branding*

* as far as I can recall with the exception of Alan Kay who was dreaming up the future in 1972 and called it the DynaBook