Xiaomi’s first laptop is the beautiful Notebook Air

While Xiaomi has made a host of products that range from water purifiers to TVs on top of their vaunted smartphone line, they’ve now finally come up with their most eagerly awaited piece of hardware ever – their first notebook. Enter the Mi Notebook Air.

Blending Xiaomi’s vaunted high-end design and production quality with the reasonable prices they are known for, the Mi Notebook Air has a 13.3-inch display,packs an Intel Core i5 processor, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, a 256GB PCie SSD with an expandable SATA SSD slot to augment it with more storage and – surprise – has an NVIDIA GeForce 940MX GPU. The Notebook Air runs on Windows 10 and sports a USB Type-C port for charging, a pair of USB 3.0 ports, a HDMI out and an audio jack. On a full charge, the Notebook Air lasts a good 9.5 hours and fast charging tech juices it up to 50% in half an hour. The whole affair is hewn of light aluminium and measures 309.6 x 210.9 x 14.8mm while weighing 1.28kg, making it lighter and thinner than the Macbook Air.

A smaller 12.5 inch variant is also available that has an Intel Core M3 CPU, integrated graphics, 4GB RAM and a 128GB SSD with a spare PCie slot for expansion along with better battery life along the line of 11.5 hours on a full charge. The 12.5-inch Notebook Air variant weighs in at 1.07kg while measuring in at 292 x 202 x 12.9mm. Of note on the Mi Notebook Air is what Xiaomi calls Mi Cloud Sync that allows users to access their contacts, texts, snaps and the like stored up in the Mi Cloud directly on their Mi Notebook Air which helps to further tie users in to their fast expanding ecosystem.

Both variants of the Mi Notebook Air will be available for sale in either a shade of gold or silver starting 2 August on Mi.Com and the Mi Home stores in China. The 13.5-inch variant will retail at RMB4,999 (about RM 3,059) while the 12.5-inch variant will retail at RMB3,499 (about RM2,141). Stay tuned as we find out more about their gorgeous new wunderkind. 

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