Hi guys, Chris here so I have with me the Xiaomi Mi notebook 13 this is the
latest model from them that has just been basically revised so they've got
now a fingerprint reader on the touchpad and Nvidia MX150 GPU. So that's new
hardware new architecture an upgrade over the old 940 MX and a cpu is changed
it is now the i5 7200U, 8 gigabytes of RAM unfortunately still no 16 gigabyte
option at this stage it looks like they're not going to be doing it now
storage options you have 128 gigabytes of SSD storage which i think is set of 3
but this model here is 256 gigabytes of PCIe times full spec storage which
should be these Samsung PM 961 otherwise known as the samsung 960 Evo it's
basically the same car but this is the OEM version of it so I have my trusty
handy knife here let's get this one unboxed and check it out in greater
detail so it's just come in the factory double box so it's going to be alright
would have personally liked them to use another boss but you can see actually
now that's protected really quite well there so as you can see it has the same
exact box as last year's model they have not changed the design of that
oh that's ripped so the seller of this one probably has gone in here and
hopefully installed English for me maybe they haven't so it could actually be in
Chinese but I guess I'll find out later on so here we have an instruction
leaflet for there's warranty cards things like that and here I yeah
something similar I think settings and all that but that's all in Chinese I do
not read Chinese the only other thing we have in the box is the charger of course
so it's not a bad size as you can see relatively small and its maximum rating
is 20 volts 3.25 amps 65 watts max so it weighs 1.31 kilos which isn't a bad
weighted all considering the power that this little laptop
and its thickness comes in at 15 and millimeters all right so exactly the
same build as the last model so pressing down on that load it feels quite firm
don't it's going to be any risk of that screen pressing up against the keyboard
to me inside a backpack so no changes here on the left side we've got a full
size HDMI USB 3 port and then the 3.5 millimeter headphone out which also
supports microphones which is located in the middle there which is a little bit
odd it would be nice if they'd put at least an SD card or micro SD card reader
on here to when they revised this model same goes for the right side no changes
here so the status LED USB 3.1 type C port so that supports data charging and
display out all at the same time with the other HDMI port means you can run
three screens at the same time so two external monitors and the inbuilt
display and the last port there of course is another USB 3 port on the back
there's no ports this part along here is plastic that's for the wireless antenna
reception and Bluetooth so on the underside you'll see we've got a vent
here now this grille has the intake of course for the fans are inside to help
cool things down so the air will come in through the bottom so you don't want to
block that up using this laptop on your lap we've got AKG speakers either side
exactly the same as the previous generation so the 2016 model now because
I like to look at the internals of these machines here I'm going to pull the back
cover off and I've already taken all the screws off so these are t5 Torx screws
and then you just pry the rear off
case so I can see that we still have a 39 watt hour battery unfortunately they
haven't increased the capacity of that so battery life on the last model that I
tested was around about I think it was about five to six hours only so it's not
the greatest you can see the speakers left and right now we do have a PCIe
times four SSD in there that should be our samsung PM nine six one duel fans
there they've got copper heat pipe that handles both the GPU right there that's
the GPU I would say yeah exactly like the other model and our Ram is just
under the shielding at the top above it so just along there is the RAM now the
build quality of it looks excellent this is really good very well laid out and
they've crammed a lot of hardware into this small and send shell here so I'm
going to put it back together now or one last thing if you want to store an extra
SSD you can do so right here we've got a slot but we don't have a screw that's
only one thing that's missing so you could put a set of three SSD like the
Samsung I've got here screw that down into place and you can increase your
storage so you could put a 1 terabyte storage drives in there and backup all
your files onto that so it's great having this option so no doubt you're
just a figure as I am to get this open so let's have a look and see if it will
open with just one hand the old model did just so they've got this protector
over the keyboard and you can see it looks exactly the same but we do have of
course now a fingerprint reader on here for added security so I can't see any
changes at all with the layout or any icons anything like that so we've got
shortcuts for our media controls screen brightness there and pretty much
everything you can think of pressing down really hard there there is tiny
little bit of flex but I mean it's almost next to nothing and typing on
this keyboard doesn't remember on the old model is a really great very good
keyboard to type on so the screen like the previous model has glass in front of
it now it's fully laminated but it means that the lid is very rigid
there's a little bit of flex in it but I mean it's rock-solid really compared to
other models you see that don't have this glass on the front now it hasn't
been updated to a touchscreen or anything like that which I feel is a
shame because the way I see it if you're going to put glass on there fully
laminated make it touch as well why not but I guess that adds to costs
so no changes to the front-facing camera and those tiny little dots you can see
those little gaps either side that's not a design flaw as someone pointed out
once on my old one that is in fact where the jewelry microphones are so good to
see them located here and not on the keyboard where you pick up noise from
typing of course so time to power it up and have a look at the boot time now I
do not know whether this is going to boot up and Chinese windows or the sella
port English on me which I think they said they were going to do for me so the
power button is in a bit of an awkward awkward location there we would normally
have the Delete key but the good thing about that power button is it's actually
a little bit more resistant to the rest of the keys and you can of course a
windows hit the power button to do nothing when you press it by accident so
that booted up super quick and I can see that yes it is in English which is great
so the touch pad size is rather large for a 13.3 inch laptop of course it's
not MacBook large but I found this one to be quite good it has like a very
smooth glass-like finish to it and does the job really well I wonder if they
have pre-installed doesn't look like it there should be some synaptic software
which is very important to have but it seems that the seller of this didn't
install that so I'm going to have to hunt that down now looking at the device
manager just to confirm what I've got on board with hardware so that fingerprint
reader as a eland fingerprint sensor and now seen them on
a lot of Chinese devices that seems to be very common and it should work really
well but I will test that out in the fall of you the drive which to me I
think that is the PM 961 which is great that's a proper PCIe or in vme drive
that should have really decent performance a lot faster than SATA 3 so
it's my understanding that the 128 gigabyte model will have a set of three
Drive and between 256 gigabyte one of course will be this Drive now we've got
the NVIDIA GeForce MX 150 I have no idea about the speak of
this but I do believe it's got 2 gigabytes of dedicated round but I'll
check that out also in this video here and you can see
we've got Intel dual band wireless AC the 8 to 6 v chipset now this is a
particularly good one because it does have that two x two antenna setup and I
found that using it before that it's got excellent range and speeds no issues
with it whatsoever and there is the CPU so it's dual core the cable lake I five
seven 7200 you and of course it has four threads that's why it's listed in there
four times quick look at that 1080p panel so Ben can NEP stretched across
thirteen point three inches you will see pixels if you look at it really really
close but it is fully laminated glass but that means also that it is quite a
reflective display that the color reproduction and things do look really
good it's a very decent screen it's better than the mean notebook twelve
point five screen that I have in the background of course I've compared and
looked at both for them and this one just has better whites better colors and
overall a slightly better panel that doesn't mean that 12.5 panel is bad it
just means this one here is slightly better and I really do quite like it but
it's a shame they didn't decide to go for maybe a 1440p screen just to make
things a little sharper and now looking at the glow around the edges that you
sometimes get that IPS glow or the IPS bleed you sometimes have especially more
so when it's fully laminated I'm not really seeing it looking at the panel
it's very good maybe I just got lucky won the jackpot here on the screen that
there really doesn't seem to be any bleed or issues I can see on the screen
which is great so the memory is running at 2133 megahertz which is correct for
the KB Lake the i-5 7200 you but you notice here that it says slots used one
of two so it's only running in single channel this is just like the earlier
model so they're not running jeweled channel there which is a real shame
because we would get some more RAM bandwidth now I just wanted to point out
that with the wind activation it said that I've got a
digital license key that's detected from the BIOS but it didn't activate with my
current version and I clicked on this right here which is troubleshoot click
on that and then it will then communicate with the Windows 10 server
and it's told me that it has found a license on here but I need to upgrade my
windows Edition which might be too Pro so it looks like we're not going to have
any problems with the CD key that's in the BIOS will be working as long as you
click on that troubleshooting so we'll show you a few benchmarks here because I
know people want to see this straight away this information just how much
faster is it than the previous models we'll have a look at the SSD speed here
blazing fast really good haven't you installed the drivers I don't think
they're proper drivers from Samsung are installed there so that could even give
me a slight boost perhaps and the right speeds there but I'm not disappointed at
all with that score that is really good so I did run to other benchmarks here
this is to give us a rough idea before my final review well follow up with a
lot more benchmarks here so here's the gig bench for score we've got a single
core score that is faster and the multi-core than the previous model now
the previous model with the i-5 6200 my unit got single core score of 3143 so
you can see there is an increase here and then a multi-core score of 6080 - so
we're up about a thousand points here on the multi-core score which is normal for
the chipset chain so we've gone to the KB late now and when it comes to the
compute score this is where we're seeing a big improvement here over last
generations Nvidia 940m X we now have of course the MX 150 so I don't know a lot
about the MX 150 I don't think there's really any information that has been
published from Nvidia but here are the speeds it's got you can see the GPU
clocks and the turbo boost D which doesn't really increase by much well you
get an extra 100 megahertz out of it but that will course be depending on the
temperatures whether it will boost up or not double data rate 5 it's detected
those chips to be samsung chips and we do have two gigabytes of dedicated
ran for the GPU the amount of shaders it has so you're cuter cause it has 384
CUDA cores and the GPU ID now I don't know whether this is the pasquale or
what architecture that is is using their or the process or how many nanometers
that is I'd have to do a little bit of research on that after this video and
try and find out if anyone knows please let us know down in the comments and why
not just one gaming benchmark before I release a gaming review of this laptop
to check out work thermal throttle what games will be playable alright so there
are the results there so yes you can game Tomb Raider
rise of the Tomb Raider 37 frames per second average now that is 1080p
resolution so if you lower the resolution down to 720p perhaps you
could get away with the medium settings but this isn't a bad result I feel now
of course this is not a gaming laptop just want to make that clear but it's
good to see that we will be able to play games on the side so the fans are on
100% I'll give you a sample of that in the full review but just to say now that
yes it is loud you can hear it but it's not an annoying fan noise so I'm going
to have a look now just very quickly at the surface temperatures because this is
one of the things I was concerned about and didn't particularly like on the old
model so dirty up to 41 degrees now 40 to 44 that is where the vent is along
the top here 45 that is quite hot to the touch that our class has not scorching
hot and it's getting up there that is actually almost scorching hot so if you
intend to game on this for long periods you probably want to use a laptop cooler
or at least prop it up because it is sitting down a little bit too low I feel
affecting the airflow so just like the previous model the same speaker
configuration their downward firing there aka tuned sever listen to how they
sound
so you can hear from that that there's base there's meds and some treble in
there they're not bad sounding speakers at all considering how thin this
notebook is so this is what the keyboard looks like when you're using it at
nighttime it's well lit but we do not have any control so there's no variable
different levels it's either on or off and after 13 seconds it will turn itself
off automatically to save the battery all right guys so that's it for this
video here this is just my unboxing and first impressions are overall really
it's just the same laptop as expected but we've got a more powerful chipset in
there with the i5 7 mm you and there so you're getting around I think it's about
14% more or something like that 10 to 14 percent more performance and then the
GPU does look to be quite a bit more powerful now my ears of concern are of
course the battery life how long are we going to be able to get out of this
because it wasn't that good at all on the previous generation perhaps it's a
little better here but I'm not expecting anything miraculous with only a 39 watt
hour battery inside this but that'll be coming in my full review along with more
benchmarks thermals will thermal throttle I will check that out using
Intel XT you to have a look and see if we're going to run into power limit
issues we probably will and of course the temples and things just how hot is
it going to get because that was one area that I wasn't too happy about with
the the previous model that it could get really scorching hot when you pushed it
hard encoding 4k video or gaming that really
it became a little bit unbearable to to touch it and then the fan noise would
really kick right up on 100% that'll be all coming and the full
review besides that the build quality is excellent it's got a great backlit
keyboard on there touch pad so far seems just as good as the previous model I
don't think they've made any changes there and the screen took yeah is very
good nice panel on there even loaded 1080p it's quite a decent one there but
overall it is a premium laptop and greater they put so much power into such
a small form factor and we do get that free SATA 3 s SD slot depending on what
model you get I wish more manufacturers would do this so I hope to catch you
back in my final full review and there will be an extra additional
Gaming review of this particular laptop just to see what kind of games we can
play with what settings thanks so much for watching bye for now