#Buy marmoset hexels windows#
To start with, they run Windows rather than macOS. Also, their specs are no match for Apple's machines, which generally have faster chips, larger-capacity SSDs, more memory and higher-resolution screens.īut Xiaomi's notebooks are a lot cheaper.
#Buy marmoset hexels pro#
At the time of writing, GearBest - who supplied our review unit - is offering the Core i5, 256GB Notebook Pro for £640 (inc. An entry-level MacBook Pro 15 will set you back £2,349.
Solid, powerful and easy on the eye: for the money (£640 in the UK) it's hard to beat the 15.6-inch Xiaomi Notebook Pro.įor the money Xiaomi offers a very decent system running on an 8th-generation Intel Core i5-8250U processor with 8GB of DDR4 RAM and a discrete Nvidia GeForce MX150 GPU with 2GB of dedicated GDDR5 video RAM. Storage comes courtesy of a 256GB Samsung PM961 PCIe NVMe SSD. That lineup gives the Notebook Pro some serious speed and power for a thin-and-light. This is the first time I've benchmarked an 8th generation i5 system. Running Geekbench 4 I got very impressive scores of 4,136 (single-core) and 13,874 (multi-core).
Those results are nearly double what you'd expect to see from a similar specification 7th-generation Core i5 system. That's the benefit of two extra cores and a higher Turbo Boost clock speed. In many tasks the new i5 chips are barely any slower than 8th-generation Core i7 components, and they beat 7th-generation i7 chips hollow. There are a Core i7 versions of the Pro available for around £200 more depending on the amount of memory you opt for. Given the impressive performance of the i5 I couldn't justify spending the extra. The graphics scores were unsurprisingly a little less impressive: the 3DMark Fire Strike test threw up an average of 2,987, but you don't buy a machine like this to replace your PS4. That said, with some tweaking both Doom and Battlefield 1 ran at decent frame rates (around 50fps) at the native screen resolution. The Notebook Pro's display is a full-HD (1920 x 1080 pixel) Gorilla Glass 3-covered IPS panel without any touchscreen functionality. Why don't Xiaomi's laptops have touchscreens? Because Apple's don't - that's how seriously, or slavishly, Xiaomi takes the 'China's Apple' epithet.
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