Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air Windows 10 laptop with slim metal body announced

Xiaomi has announced Mi Notebook Air, the company’s first Windows 10 laptop, along with the Redmi Pro at an event in China. It comes in 12.5-inch and 13.3-inch models with 1080p displays with 5.71mm and 5.59mm ultra-narrow borders, respectively. It has a full metal body with 135-degree opening and closing hinge. The 12.5-inch model is just 12.9mm thick and weighs 1.07kg and the 13.3-inch model is 14.8mm thick, compared to 17mm thick MacBook Air and weighs just 1.28kg.

It has full-sized backlit keyboard with 1.3mm key travel, 3nits brightness  and glass trackpad for precise cursor control and multi-finger gesture controls such as scrolling program switching, zoom and other gestures. It has support for  1C fast charging technology so that it takes on half an hour to charge the laptop to 50%.

Xiaomi Mi Notebook 12.5″ specifications

• 12.5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) 16: 9 display, 170-degree wide viewing angle, 300 nits brightness, 600: 1 contrast ratio,  50% NTSC color gamut
• Intel Core m3 6Y30 processor (4M Cache, up to 2.2 GHz) with Intel HD Graphics 515
• 4GB LPDDR3 1866MHz RAM, 128GB SATA SSD, additional SSD expansion slot
• Windows 10
• 1MP HD webcam, digital array microphone
• WiFi 802.11ac 2×2 (2.4GHz and 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.1
• Dimensions: 292 x 202 x 12.9mm; Weight: 1.07kg
• 1 x USB 3.0 port, HDMI, USB Type-C
• 3.5mm audio jack, Realtek ALC233, AKG Customised dual 1W speakers, Dolby audio
• 37Wh battery with up 11.5h battery life

Xiaomi Mi Notebook 13.3″ specifications

• 13.3-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) 16: 9 display, 170-degree wide viewing angle, 300 nits brightness, 800: 1 contrast ratio,  72% NTSC color gamut
• Intel Core i5 6200U processor (3M Cache, up to 2.7 GHz) with 1GB DDR5 NVIDIA Gefore GT 940MX GPU
• 8G DDR4 2133MHz RAM, 256GB PCIe × 4 NVMe SSD, additional SSD expansion slot
• Windows 10
• 1MP HD webcam, digital array microphone
• WiFi 802.11ac 2×2 (2.4GHz and 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.1
• Dimensions: 309.6 x 210.9 x 14.8mm; Weight: 1.28kg
• 2 x USB 3.0 port, HDMI, USB Type-C
• 3.5mm audio jack, Realtek ALC255, AKG Customised dual 2W speakers, Dolby audio
• 40Wh battery with up to 9.5h battery life

The Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air comes in Gold and Silver colors. The 12.5-inch version is priced at 3499 yuan (US$ 524 / Rs. 35,260 approx.) and the 13.3-inch version costs 4999 yuan (US$ 749 / Rs. 50,355 approx.).  It will go on sale in China from August 2nd.