We of the staff of XiaomiToday.it we had the honor and the pleasure of try the Xiaomi brand notebooks, which enjoy all the quality of the Chinese company. Lei Jun OEM notebooks have been defined by many of the gods true best buy net of small defects, such as a keyboard with non-Italian layout and a Windows version in Chinese, for which it was necessary to hack a bit to make operating at our latitudes the portable technological concentrate of Xiaomi.
In the last month we have also attended various offers published on online stores, who were going to propose Xiaomi notebooks at prices even more advantageous than the standard, and this is partly due to the fact that the technology company has officially released an improved version of his latest Mi Notebook Air 13.3.
The improvements are mainly two concerning the hardware and design aspect. In fact, the previous version of the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13.3 used an all-metal chassis that is ultra-light and thin with a gray / silver color. the new version will adopt the dark gray color view on the last born Mi Notebook Pro. At the level of hardware news we find the new I5 processor and Intel I7 arrived at the eighth generation while on the previous version we had mounted the seventh generation SoC.
Specifically, the enhanced version of the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13.3 uses the I5-8250U quadcore processor to 3.4 GHz, Graphic card NVIDIA GeForce MX150 2GB GDDR 5, 8 GB DDR4 of RAM and 256 GB storage of SSD PCIe storage with support for hard disk expansion (M.2 SATA). Same features for the top version that is instead equipped with the processor Intel I7-8550U with 4.0 GHz frequency.
We do not find any further changes at the hardware level since the display remains an FHD unit from 13,3 inch with ultra-thin 5,59 mm frames and 80,1% ratio respect the available surface, brightness of 300 nits and third generation Corning Gorilla Glass protection.
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13,3 in just 1,3 Kg of weight it integrates a concentrate of technology able to adapt to the needs of all users, from the most classic to the most professional ones and thanks to the new le processor performance increased by 40%. Official prices start from 5399 yuan, about 688 euro, for the version with I5 processor which is currently the only one in presale.
I have read that there is an app to sync xiaomi smartphone with notebook. is it restricted to miui smartphones only or even with the A1?