After trying their hands-on to produce some brilliant affordable cellphones… now Xiaomi has entered the race to produce affordable laptops. Just like their reputation of delivering low price high specs mobile phones, we can expect their laptops to be the same. Well, so here it is… the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro X 15, people have been waiting for us to review this one. This is the top-end model with a Core i5 processor with 16GB of RAM and packs 512GB of SSD storage.
Specifications:
Xiaomi has expanded its laptop lineup with the introduction of the Mi Notebook Pro X in China, soon it will be available worldwide. Mi Notebook Pro X 15 was launched on Wednesday which is on last month June, as Xiaomi’s latest laptop, featuring an OLED display, unibody aluminum design, and 11th-generation Intel Core processors. The Mi Notebook Pro X 15 sports Windows 10 Home and features a 15.6-inch 3.5K (3,456×2,160 pixels) Samsung E4 OLED display, with 261ppi of pixel density, 16:10 ratio, one hundred pc sRGB, and DCI-P3 color gamut. The display of the notebook also supports DC dimming and has 600 nits of top brightness. Under the hood, there’s up to an 11th-generation Intel Core i7 processor, along with Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti graphics as standard. The device has up to 32GB of LPDDR4x RAM and also includes up to 1TB of PCIe storage. Xiaomi has provided a full-size, backlit keyboard with a key travel of 1.3mm. There’s a built-in ambient light sensor that permits the machine to automatically adjust the keyboard’s lighting because of the display as per the environment. Moreover, users can manually adjust the keyboard backlight on three different levels. In terms of connectivity, the Mi Notebook Pro X 15 delivers a variety of connectivity options such as Bluetooth v.5.2, Wi-Fi 6, two USB-A 3.2 Gen 2, USB Type-C, Thunderbolt 4, 3.5mm headphone jack, and an HDMI 2.1 port. There’s also a fingerprint sensor embedded within the facility key for one-key boot and unlock functionality. The laptop houses four speaker units that are backed by DTS audio and you also get a 2×2 microphone array as well as a built-in 720p webcam for video conferencing. Last but not least, the notebook has an 80Wh battery that delivers up to 11.5 hours of video playback on a single charge. The company also claims to charge 50 percent of the battery available on the Mi Notebook Pro X 15 in 25 minutes.
Availability:
Speculations around the laptop had long been making their thanks to social media and the internet. Xiaomi has confirmed much of those with its launch. For now, the corporation will only sell the Mi Notebook Pro X in its home country China starting in July. The Mi Notebook Pro X carries the planning language of previous Xiaomi laptops, complete with skinny bezels around the display and a sleek form factor. The Xiaomi notebook comes in an aluminum body that measures under 19 mm in thickness and weighs 1.9 kg.
Mi Notebook Pro X 15 price has been set at a starting price of 7,999 yuan (AED 4538.05) for the i5 variant configuration that includes an 11th-generation Intel Core i5-11300H processor and is powered by 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of SSD storage. However, the notebook also has the high-end Intel Core i7-11370H processor 32GB RAM, and 1TB SSD storage at CNY 9,999 (AED 5672.70). Both of these models are currently available for pre-bookings in China, with the shipments beginning on July 9, 2021. However, details about the global availability and pricing of the Mi Notebook Pro X 15 are yet to be announced.
Is Mi Notebook Pro X 15 worth buying?
Yes, it is worth buying but it highly depends on the type of user. If you are interested in gaming, then you should look into laptops with more powerful GPUs. You can find some good options with slightly inferior CPUs in that price bracket. But if you’re a professional or someone who uses his laptop to get some productive work done like Adobe, Microsoft Office, etc. And if you want a laptop that is thin and light, a laptop with good battery life, then you should certainly look at Mi Notebook. It can handle some normal games and some heavy games as well. Mi Notebook has SSD which makes the bootup times and data transfers a lot faster. So at 60k, the Mi Notebook is certainly a good option. If you would like a very light ultrabook with a fanatical GPU at the simplest price, then Mi Notebooks are the thanks to go. They need once more to decimate the competition with their aggressive pricing and value-for-money product. You cannot fail with the Mi Notebooks. Also, as of today, there are not any worthy competitors at their respective price range.