Xiaomi Upgrades New Mi Gaming Laptop With Hexa-Core Intel CPUs

Aug. 4, 2018



For the past week, Xiaomi had been teasing the release of a new product in partnership with Intel at China Joy and we speculated the company to refresh its first-ever gaming laptop,the Mi Gaming laptop,that was launched earlier this year.

Well, the Chinese giant has given us just that by updating the internals on theoriginal Mi Gaming laptopwith the addition of the latest 8th-gen six-core Intel Core i7 chipsets. This is the only major change in the new Mi Gaming Laptop in comparison to its predecessor, which was powered by Intel’s 7th-gen chipsets.

The refreshed Mi Gaming laptop, which has beendubbed the ‘e-sports performance monster’, will now be powered by the 8th-gen Intel Core i5-8300H (four cores, eight threads) and Intel Core i7-8750H chipset (six cores, twelve threads).

The upgraded internals on the higher-end variant is said to improve the system performance by 31.7%, performance of office apps by a huge 76.7% and that of heavy designer apps like Photoshop or Sketch by a whopping 92.2%.

Coming to the aesthetics, Xiaomi has carried forward the same minimalistic and stealthy design of its predecessor,especially the subtle Mi branding. You still get the ambient light chassis and the full-size four-zone backlit keyboard, along with the macro keys, and the massive air vents at the bottom.

Xiaomi’s Mi Gaming laptopfeatures a 15.6-inch display with thin bezelsthat ensure that the screen-to-body ratio approaches 81%. It has an NTSC color gamut of 72 percent, a wide viewing angle of 178 degrees, and an anti-glare screen.

Also, the company claims that the Mi Gaming laptop sports Dolby Atmos certified Hi-Res audio and a high-power cooling system (3+2 enclosed heat pipe) and a dedicated hotkey for turbo cooling. All this results in four different configurations of the Mi Gaming Laptop, which are as under:

So, if you’ve been looking to purchase a budget gaming laptop, then Xiaomi’s offering is surely going to be anappealing optionfor you. It will go on sale from 16th August on the Mi Store and Jingdong Mall. To know more about the same, you can check out our first impressions of the original Mi Gaming: