Mi Notebook Pro GTX Edition Hands On: Still A MacBook Clone, But With More Power

We are at ChinaJoy 2018 and while there'south a lot of exciting gaming-related announcements here, the headlines take been grabbed past Xiaomi with the revamped PC line-up and a focus on gaming notebooks.

The company appear the Mi Notebook Pro GTX model at the event and nosotros spent some fourth dimension with the laptop on the show floor.

Showtime matter to notice is it'due south pretty much the same equally the Mi Notebook Pro from last year, and it all the same very much emulates the look and experience of a MacBook Pro. In that location's no branding anywhere except on the bottom bezel of the screen, which is gigantic.

The display looks pretty much the same (we couldn't run any screen tests on the unit on the show flooring) and so it can get quite vivid and while I couldn't use it outside, information technology does look like sunlight visibility shouldn't be a trouble, if it's the same display every bit the last-gen model.

The keyboard has quite a bit of travel, and typing for the 10-15 minutes that I used it was a pretty neat experience.

The trackpad is huge, as one would wait since information technology'due south basically a Macbook Pro from Xiaomi, and it has a fingerprint scanner in the top correct corner. I did notice the same problems with the cursor movement not being equally smooth when you accomplish the corner with the fingerprint scanner as I did when using last twelvemonth's Mi Notebook Air that we tested.

You besides get the regular ports including an SD carte slot (something which non a lot of thin laptops go for these days), in that location are two USB Blazon-A ports for connecting devices on the left, an HDMI on the left, and two USB 3.0 Type-C ports on the right alongside a headphone jack.

Since information technology packs a GTX 1050, gaming functioning should be improved in comparison to the last-gen model, although the Max-Q design GPU (due to the thin form gene) will obviously not be as powerful as a regular 1050 that you might find in a total gaming laptop. I tried the Intel Cadre i5-8250U model and it works pretty damn fast as you'd expect from a laptop with these specs. At that place's 8 gigs of RAM on board and then I can safely say that games like PUBG and Fortnite won't exist any issue.

We tried running some benchmarking software but couldn't install them in the brief time we had with the laptops. We are peculiarly interested in seeing whether this machine has plenty graphics power to exist used as a gaming laptop. Stay tuned to observe out more.

Disclosure: This correspondent'south travel and stay to cover ChinaJoy 2018 was sponsored past Qualcomm

Source: https://beebom.com/mi-notebook-pro-gtx-hands-on/

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