Intel Core i5-8250U
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13 (2018)
The Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13 2018 model is the second revision of the laptop. Now with Intel's 8th generation quad-core Kaby Lake R Core i5 8250U or i7 8550U CPU's up to 40% more performance, improved cooling performance and now in dark grey. The rest of the specs are identical to the previous model. 13.3" glass covered 1920 x 1080 IPS. 40Wh battery, Nvidia MX150 with 2GB DDR5 RAM, Type-C USB 3.1...[Read More]
Hands-On With The 2018 Model Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13
Some pleasant surprises with the revised 2018 model of the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13.3. I thought it was a simple case of a new CPU and paint job, seems there are a few other tweaks to this latest edition and more refinement. So we now have the much more powerful Kaby Lake R CPU’s in the 13-inch model. Intel’s 8th Gen Core i5 8250U and i7 8550U, these CPU’s have doubled their cor...[Read More]
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro
Xiaomi 3rd Notebook in the Mi Notebook series is the Mi Notebook Pro, which features a 15.6" 1080p fully laminated Gorilla Glass 3 screen. Full metal build with two fans and improved cooling design. It's powered by either an Intel Core i5-8250U 8th Gen Intel CPU with 8GB of RAM, or a quad-core i7-8550U & 16GB of DDR4 2400Mhz RAM. Storage options range from 256GB PCIe x 4 up to 1TB PCIe x 4 for...[Read More]
How To Boost 8th Gen Core i5 & i7’s To Preform Like An i7 7700HQ (Mi Notebook Pro)
Intel’s Xtreme Tuning Utility is a great tool for overclocking CPU’s, while we can’t overclock the U series of CPU’s what we can do using this application of Intel’s is increase the power limits. Doing this on the 8th Gen Intel Core i5 8250U gives us huge gains up to 29% when testing with Cinebench R15 and encoding 4k video using Adobe Premiere Pro.so much so we can g...[Read More]
