Xiaomi Mi Gaming Laptop 2019 Review

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi chris herren welcome back to my final review of xiaomi's my gaming laptop this is the 2019 refresh it's got 16 gigabytes of ddr4 ram 512 gigabytes of storage the nvidia r-tx 2016 now the base model has the gtx 1660 TI not a bad card but I wanted the best card just to help boost performance because there's a big change now with the screen they've gone and done away with the 60 Hertz panel they had on the previous two models it's now 144 Hertz it's a very good screen in here I've got an Adobe RGB color gamut coverage here of 73% srgb of 97% and a maximum brightness of 360 lux it's a very good screen Mac coded 1080p and if you're running older games or you'll lower your settings then with the RT X 2060 here at least you can hopefully most of the time match the 144 refresh rate 144 frames per second that it really all depends on what type of games you see better on later on with my tests here so we've got a decent keyboard on here but I do have a bit of a pet peeve with the column that they put here on the left now I don't believe that you should mess with QWERTY layouts and just decide to add an additional column there with our macro keys ngo5 macro keys that you can customize with the software that's onboard and the top button there is our fan turbo mode so it just turns into a and if 18 afterburners really is as you'll hear later on it from a sample the fan noise gets very loud but it will cool it down very quickly if you needed to do that but that is a good keyboard to type on it has a four-stage different backlight zones on there sorry five stage backlighting but four different zones that you can customize if you're into your RGB keyboards and overall I did get a lot of typos with this keyboard to start out with of the first week really it took about I would say six or five days before I stopped getting the typos and you're just having that extra row there so I really wished that those keys were just above the keyboard the touchpad is big and it is really good very good finish to it very good accuracy very move it supports Windows 10 gestures and of course gaming you won't be using a touchpad you'll be using a mouse but when you use it it's just a normal laptop this is probably one of the best touch pads you'll find in a gaming laptop because most gaming laptops just ignore what really touch pads because they feel that our gamers I can really use them anyway but it's a good one parish is made out of plastic now four ports on the right hand side sorry the left hand side I should say we've got two 3.5 millimeter audio in an outputs here two USB 3 s and then an exit vent there and on the right hand side now we've got a high speed ultra high-speed card reader that's actually came in the change on the last gen model and it's good to see so if you're moving your video files from your SD cards they're kind of transfer over quite quickly if you of course using high speed can't debtor's and another USB 3 port so on the rear another USB 3 2 again so we've got four in total you must be three ports which is great hdmi 2.0 specs so if you wanted to run say a 4k monitor at 60 Hertz you can do that and then we've got Gigabit LAN there as well DC in for charging and what is missing here well we don't have a mini DisplayPort and they removed the type C port so the last year's model had a type C port on there and even the first gen model but they've just ditched it for some weird reason I don't know why now would have preferred to have seen Thunderbolt 3 that would have been great to have on here so there's a really one thing that is missing is type C or Thunderbolt 3 on the underside of the me gaming laptop it's exactly the same as the previous model so we have a very large intake grille here and this raised rubber feet so plenty airflow now if you are going to be removing the rear of this to add a 2.5 inch hard drive or SSD don't forget there is actually one screw right here that is hidden away so prying it off does take a bit of effort and once you get that cover off we've got access to the two RAM slots ddr4 here is our SSD the wireless card is not upgradeable soldered on to the motherboard but we can add a 2.5 inch spindle hard drive or SSD right here is the room for it the bay and the connector or another MDOT to nvme or set a three it says d-22 by a tea size and the cooling here so we've got the two coolers with a lot of fins in there and five thermal transfer heat pipes and it does do its job as you see in this review no thermal throttling it doesn't overheat so the cooling definitely good here but it is a little loud when gaming as you'll hear later on in the video so on to the performance of this laptop it's very quick but the 8th gen is about the same kind of speed CPU wise as this so the new i7 9750 H is quite a disappointing release in terms of performance it's only really marginally quicker than the last gen model CPU so will hold approximately you can see here bouncing around 3.6 to 3.7 across all six cores when really pushed hard with something demanding like Cinebench which I'm running in the background now you can under vault a little which I've done right here this won't really do much for thermals but it might help hold just slightly higher core clocks when you're are stressing the CPU so you can see here Cinebench that's just finished up in fact that came out a little bit lower than expected you're getting around as I showed in the first video about 1200 CB here which really is about the same speed as mentioned as the 8th gen chip so that's not a performance increase but what is is our GPU performance so that is now up of course with the RT X 2060 his past mark so if you understood those past mark scores this is one of the benchmarks I didn't show in the first video that people were asking for and there is some of the benchmarks that I did so x 5 3dmark good score 6335 high strike extreme closing up well seven and a half thousand that is very good if it gets up graphics score close to 8,000 then there's a really good score for a laptop and you can overclock the GPU a little bit ok I've done some testing but I'll show you now with superposition benchmark as well sorry this is Geekbench 5 I wanted to check on this one again no real difference and I did show Geekbench five as well but all-in-all this is a very fast laptop so onto superimposition here benchmark so this is the original result so three thousand seven hundred and forty eight and if you do a slight GPU overclock which is about 80 megahertz more on the core and eight hundred megahertz on the ram this is the difference there so you can squeeze a little bit of additional performance out of the r-tx 2060 with its six gigabytes of ram it is a potent GPU and the thermal so I wanted to talk about that now more towards the beginning that the thermals are very good you can see here that the GPU gets up to around about sixty five degrees maximum I will throughout this video be monitoring the thermals by the way anyway CPU will hit a maximum of about 83 so this is good we're not running into any thermal throttling it's not like the Lenovo Legion the Y 740 that I reviewed that one maxed out at 97 for just a second degree so it does get very hot but no the cooling is good in this laptop and you won't really have any problems so the SSD very quick here it is a toshiba drive this is the 512 gigabyte SSD model that i've got here of course the highest spec so good speeds very very good there and that is not going to be holding you up at all and of course you can expand upon that storage if you want to so this is the best cine bench result that i've got so close to 1200 CB okay i don't know why i only got about a thousand just before it does vary from time to time so charging it it's going to take about 2 hours and 40 minutes to fully charge this laptop and then my better life figures these are just some of the testing that i've been doing over the couple of weeks is so chrome you're gonna get around 4 hours max but under actually for chrome use on the integrated intel ultra HD 630 it's got on there video only about four and a half hours with a lot of brightness and if you're gaming one to one-and-a-half hours it's only a 55 watt hour battery so the battery life is quite disappointing so onto some gaming performance now that I know a lot of you wanted to see in the first video and we'll have a look at the thermals as well again and also fan noise once I have gamed for a bit now one of the cons of this laptop that when you're gaming the fans are pretty much almost 100% and I'll give you a sample of them now but you can probably even hear it now as I'm talking it's really really loud and it's quite annoying so let's have a look at the thermals that it does feel quite hot to the touch the keyboard so just in the middle here I've noticed temperatures of almost 46 degrees so it is one to the touch and on the underside it's actually a lot cooler than this so this is the hottest point it's really gonna get - as the top of the keyboard you can see there 44 degrees the palm rest that is cool that remains always about 24 22 degrees so we have those two downloads phone speakers they're actually very loud as you'll hear from this clip they've got a little bit of bass to them it would have been nice if we had a sub but I think most people will be happy with the performance of these speakers loudness definitely there and overall they're not really that bad these speakers get down and here's our front webcam so I thought it would record away from my studio at your typical kind of location which is at home and you can see the quality is not amazing there's a lot of noise and grain to it the mics do sound good there's a bit of echo that's because this room doesn't have any furniture in it it's basically empty and that's why okay so I'll quickly recap here I don't want to drag the ending out that this I think as a solid gaming laptop very very good build quality a hugely improved screen got 144 Hertz depends on what games and titles you're playing whether you can actually match 144 frames per second to the screen there's no G sync on here but that's a good thing because the better life and the battery capacity is actually very very small 55 watt hours so if we had G sync we'll be forced to use if they didn't allow us disabled up that is to use across the r-tx 2060 on here and then you only get like an hour and a half a battery life and that would be really bad but it still has bad battery life so four hours max really watching video content on the integrated GPU with a lower brightness isn't wonderful at all it is a little heavy 2.7 kilos the column that they put here with our macro keys is to me a bit annoying you will have typos to start with but once you get used to it it is a fantastic keyboard the touchpad is well really really good touchpad so if you're into good touch pads in most gaming laptops don't really have good ones then this is probably one of the best ones out there that you'll find now the web cam caught quality it's ok it's not amazing fair noise when gaming is a little on the loud side so all up the huge increase in performance we're getting now with the Attucks 2060 less than the top spec model is welcomed but Intel's CPU bump from 8th to 9th gin with a 97 50 H is truly disappointing even though we've got 400 megahertz more clock speeds it really doesn't equate to anything in real world use it's about 3 4 % tops and Dada's disappointingly the 10th gen will be a lot better now it doesn't come with Windows 10 in English but it is easy enough to just do a whole new install of Windows and the CD key that's in the BIOS will pull through so as long as you install Windows 10 home you'll be alright you won't run into any problems there or you can upgrade to Windows 10 Pro which I did and that then allowed me to just install English and keep all the stock software so overall it is a great gaming laptop it is ok a little expensive of course but thirteen hundred euros when I look at the local market you can get the spec for here not the RT X 2016 not the sixteen gigabytes RAM and the top-end CPU 144 Hertz screen will be about 1500 1600 here so there's a bit cheaper if the input one of these but of course beware of input taxes and you won't have local warranties and things so thank you so much for watching my review of xiaomi's me gaming laptop bye for nowhi chris herren welcome back to my final review of xiaomi's my gaming laptop this is the 2019 refresh it's got 16 gigabytes of ddr4 ram 512 gigabytes of storage the nvidia r-tx 2016 now the base model has the gtx 1660 TI not a bad card but I wanted the best card just to help boost performance because there's a big change now with the screen they've gone and done away with the 60 Hertz panel they had on the previous two models it's now 144 Hertz it's a very good screen in here I've got an Adobe RGB color gamut coverage here of 73% srgb of 97% and a maximum brightness of 360 lux it's a very good screen Mac coded 1080p and if you're running older games or you'll lower your settings then with the RT X 2060 here at least you can hopefully most of the time match the 144 refresh rate 144 frames per second that it really all depends on what type of games you see better on later on with my tests here so we've got a decent keyboard on here but I do have a bit of a pet peeve with the column that they put here on the left now I don't believe that you should mess with QWERTY layouts and just decide to add an additional column there with our macro keys ngo5 macro keys that you can customize with the software that's onboard and the top button there is our fan turbo mode so it just turns into a and if 18 afterburners really is as you'll hear later on it from a sample the fan noise gets very loud but it will cool it down very quickly if you needed to do that but that is a good keyboard to type on it has a four-stage different backlight zones on there sorry five stage backlighting but four different zones that you can customize if you're into your RGB keyboards and overall I did get a lot of typos with this keyboard to start out with of the first week really it took about I would say six or five days before I stopped getting the typos and you're just having that extra row there so I really wished that those keys were just above the keyboard the touchpad is big and it is really good very good finish to it very good accuracy very move it supports Windows 10 gestures and of course gaming you won't be using a touchpad you'll be using a mouse but when you use it it's just a normal laptop this is probably one of the best touch pads you'll find in a gaming laptop because most gaming laptops just ignore what really touch pads because they feel that our gamers I can really use them anyway but it's a good one parish is made out of plastic now four ports on the right hand side sorry the left hand side I should say we've got two 3.5 millimeter audio in an outputs here two USB 3 s and then an exit vent there and on the right hand side now we've got a high speed ultra high-speed card reader that's actually came in the change on the last gen model and it's good to see so if you're moving your video files from your SD cards they're kind of transfer over quite quickly if you of course using high speed can't debtor's and another USB 3 port so on the rear another USB 3 2 again so we've got four in total you must be three ports which is great hdmi 2.0 specs so if you wanted to run say a 4k monitor at 60 Hertz you can do that and then we've got Gigabit LAN there as well DC in for charging and what is missing here well we don't have a mini DisplayPort and they removed the type C port so the last year's model had a type C port on there and even the first gen model but they've just ditched it for some weird reason I don't know why now would have preferred to have seen Thunderbolt 3 that would have been great to have on here so there's a really one thing that is missing is type C or Thunderbolt 3 on the underside of the me gaming laptop it's exactly the same as the previous model so we have a very large intake grille here and this raised rubber feet so plenty airflow now if you are going to be removing the rear of this to add a 2.5 inch hard drive or SSD don't forget there is actually one screw right here that is hidden away so prying it off does take a bit of effort and once you get that cover off we've got access to the two RAM slots ddr4 here is our SSD the wireless card is not upgradeable soldered on to the motherboard but we can add a 2.5 inch spindle hard drive or SSD right here is the room for it the bay and the connector or another MDOT to nvme or set a three it says d-22 by a tea size and the cooling here so we've got the two coolers with a lot of fins in there and five thermal transfer heat pipes and it does do its job as you see in this review no thermal throttling it doesn't overheat so the cooling definitely good here but it is a little loud when gaming as you'll hear later on in the video so on to the performance of this laptop it's very quick but the 8th gen is about the same kind of speed CPU wise as this so the new i7 9750 H is quite a disappointing release in terms of performance it's only really marginally quicker than the last gen model CPU so will hold approximately you can see here bouncing around 3.6 to 3.7 across all six cores when really pushed hard with something demanding like Cinebench which I'm running in the background now you can under vault a little which I've done right here this won't really do much for thermals but it might help hold just slightly higher core clocks when you're are stressing the CPU so you can see here Cinebench that's just finished up in fact that came out a little bit lower than expected you're getting around as I showed in the first video about 1200 CB here which really is about the same speed as mentioned as the 8th gen chip so that's not a performance increase but what is is our GPU performance so that is now up of course with the RT X 2060 his past mark so if you understood those past mark scores this is one of the benchmarks I didn't show in the first video that people were asking for and there is some of the benchmarks that I did so x 5 3dmark good score 6335 high strike extreme closing up well seven and a half thousand that is very good if it gets up graphics score close to 8,000 then there's a really good score for a laptop and you can overclock the GPU a little bit ok I've done some testing but I'll show you now with superposition benchmark as well sorry this is Geekbench 5 I wanted to check on this one again no real difference and I did show Geekbench five as well but all-in-all this is a very fast laptop so onto superimposition here benchmark so this is the original result so three thousand seven hundred and forty eight and if you do a slight GPU overclock which is about 80 megahertz more on the core and eight hundred megahertz on the ram this is the difference there so you can squeeze a little bit of additional performance out of the r-tx 2060 with its six gigabytes of ram it is a potent GPU and the thermal so I wanted to talk about that now more towards the beginning that the thermals are very good you can see here that the GPU gets up to around about sixty five degrees maximum I will throughout this video be monitoring the thermals by the way anyway CPU will hit a maximum of about 83 so this is good we're not running into any thermal throttling it's not like the Lenovo Legion the Y 740 that I reviewed that one maxed out at 97 for just a second degree so it does get very hot but no the cooling is good in this laptop and you won't really have any problems so the SSD very quick here it is a toshiba drive this is the 512 gigabyte SSD model that i've got here of course the highest spec so good speeds very very good there and that is not going to be holding you up at all and of course you can expand upon that storage if you want to so this is the best cine bench result that i've got so close to 1200 CB okay i don't know why i only got about a thousand just before it does vary from time to time so charging it it's going to take about 2 hours and 40 minutes to fully charge this laptop and then my better life figures these are just some of the testing that i've been doing over the couple of weeks is so chrome you're gonna get around 4 hours max but under actually for chrome use on the integrated intel ultra HD 630 it's got on there video only about four and a half hours with a lot of brightness and if you're gaming one to one-and-a-half hours it's only a 55 watt hour battery so the battery life is quite disappointing so onto some gaming performance now that I know a lot of you wanted to see in the first video and we'll have a look at the thermals as well again and also fan noise once I have gamed for a bit now one of the cons of this laptop that when you're gaming the fans are pretty much almost 100% and I'll give you a sample of them now but you can probably even hear it now as I'm talking it's really really loud and it's quite annoying so let's have a look at the thermals that it does feel quite hot to the touch the keyboard so just in the middle here I've noticed temperatures of almost 46 degrees so it is one to the touch and on the underside it's actually a lot cooler than this so this is the hottest point it's really gonna get - as the top of the keyboard you can see there 44 degrees the palm rest that is cool that remains always about 24 22 degrees so we have those two downloads phone speakers they're actually very loud as you'll hear from this clip they've got a little bit of bass to them it would have been nice if we had a sub but I think most people will be happy with the performance of these speakers loudness definitely there and overall they're not really that bad these speakers get down and here's our front webcam so I thought it would record away from my studio at your typical kind of location which is at home and you can see the quality is not amazing there's a lot of noise and grain to it the mics do sound good there's a bit of echo that's because this room doesn't have any furniture in it it's basically empty and that's why okay so I'll quickly recap here I don't want to drag the ending out that this I think as a solid gaming laptop very very good build quality a hugely improved screen got 144 Hertz depends on what games and titles you're playing whether you can actually match 144 frames per second to the screen there's no G sync on here but that's a good thing because the better life and the battery capacity is actually very very small 55 watt hours so if we had G sync we'll be forced to use if they didn't allow us disabled up that is to use across the r-tx 2060 on here and then you only get like an hour and a half a battery life and that would be really bad but it still has bad battery life so four hours max really watching video content on the integrated GPU with a lower brightness isn't wonderful at all it is a little heavy 2.7 kilos the column that they put here with our macro keys is to me a bit annoying you will have typos to start with but once you get used to it it is a fantastic keyboard the touchpad is well really really good touchpad so if you're into good touch pads in most gaming laptops don't really have good ones then this is probably one of the best ones out there that you'll find now the web cam caught quality it's ok it's not amazing fair noise when gaming is a little on the loud side so all up the huge increase in performance we're getting now with the Attucks 2060 less than the top spec model is welcomed but Intel's CPU bump from 8th to 9th gin with a 97 50 H is truly disappointing even though we've got 400 megahertz more clock speeds it really doesn't equate to anything in real world use it's about 3 4 % tops and Dada's disappointingly the 10th gen will be a lot better now it doesn't come with Windows 10 in English but it is easy enough to just do a whole new install of Windows and the CD key that's in the BIOS will pull through so as long as you install Windows 10 home you'll be alright you won't run into any problems there or you can upgrade to Windows 10 Pro which I did and that then allowed me to just install English and keep all the stock software so overall it is a great gaming laptop it is ok a little expensive of course but thirteen hundred euros when I look at the local market you can get the spec for here not the RT X 2016 not the sixteen gigabytes RAM and the top-end CPU 144 Hertz screen will be about 1500 1600 here so there's a bit cheaper if the input one of these but of course beware of input taxes and you won't have local warranties and things so thank you so much for watching my review of xiaomi's me gaming laptop bye for now\n"