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hey how's it gone Dave 2d here so Xiaomi recently announced their me gaming laptop and it's a product that I think a lot of people would be interested in because well shall we make some really good stuff for a pretty good price this is their mean notebook Pro I've done a review of it really heavy hitter for its price point we've seen the meet notebook error also really good product for the price point so on paper it would seem like the me gaming laptop would be like hey you know that sounds pretty cool so looking at the paper specs and the photos in the press release are pretty impressive one of the things that they do really well is build quality I think that's like probably their biggest strength when it comes to what you'd expect at that price like very few laptops at that price point are gonna look like this this is one of the best-built gaming laptops gonna see at that price point and looking at the mean notebook Pro it's just a really well machined laptop really clean edges the occasional sharp edge here and there like on the bottom they didn't do like the best job with the machining but it's a really well-built laptop so I expect the me gaming laptop to be similar their design is quite unique the hinge looks a lot like that piston hinge we've seen on the HP Spectre and I used to have concerns about that hinge design but it's actually really good and the design of this whole me gaming laptop looks quite simple it's like this muted look gray slab no red accents no logos the only xiaomi branding is at the bottom of the screen kind of like the notebook pro and it's a good look it's actually one of the least gamer looking laptops I've seen which I like the bottom of that laptop seems to have some kind of like RGB lighting for some under globe but aside from that it's nothing crazy on the exterior the screen on the me gaming laptop suppose to have a 72% NTSC rating which is actually the exact same rating as the one on the me notebook pro and it might be the same screen a might not I kind of hope it isn't because this screen wasn't I mean it's not terrible but it's not a great gaming laptop screen so hopefully they change it up a little bit but the me gaming laptop supposed to take a lot of build and design cues from the me notebook probe which is actually a good thing this thing had great Dolby Atmos speakers and I think of the gaming laptop will as well it's gonna have that good keyboard layout but this time with RGB and macro keys and it's gonna be running a Windows precision trackpad which is always good to see in any kind of laptop the ports look pretty good show me does ports well they kind of stick a whole bunch of ports onto most of the laptops and for the most part people are happy they don't care too much about the whole like minimalism and stuff like that performance they're running an i-5 that's comboed with gtx 10:50 TI or the i7 with the gtx 1060 now that's obviously going to affect the price but the thing that's kind of extra cool is the cooling so Xiaomi is saying that it's gonna be the coolest high performance laptop on the market and honestly I believe them because look at this thing this was the notebook pro and despite this thing only having an MX 150 they've designed it well so you can crank the water really easily now that thermal performance comes at a cost and that is as weight so if you look at the paper specs and you kind of don't look at the hype it's actually heavier than I thought it'd be and I think a lot of that weight comes from that thermal solution because they're running five heat pipes and those things are not light okay the last thing I wanna talk about is pricing and this is kind of the most important part of this video xiaomi products tend to kind of capture the interest of people in north america and europe because they tend to be cheaper than their counterparts and i was surprised at how expensive the me gaming laptop is if you look at the pricing of I guess similarly designed products so relatively thinner and lighter gaming laptops that are well built the Xiaomi me gaming laptop doesn't stick out as being an amazing value because the gaming laptop market especially in that gtx 1050 TI or gtx 1060 segment that's a very very competitive segment like you're seeing like 20-30 laptops in that kind of performance range so pricing ranging from like 800 bucks to 2,000 bucks at the top end so this shiny product it's not super cheap it's not that it's like expensive or anything but you always take a risk when you're buying a product like this at least right now that the brand isn't represented well in North America or Europe you kind of have to be in Asia to obtain this thing so there's a bit of risk when it comes to buying something like this and it's just I don't feel like for most people that live outside of the Asia market I don't think it's worth it to really purchase this Xiaomi gaming laptop it kind of took me for a surprise I expected it to be cheaper I'm sure it's a great product and you're getting really really good build quality with cool underglow and some really great thermal performance but when you kind of look at the grand picture and you see the other options that are available it's not that it's a bad product it's just not nearly as compelling of a purchase as other Shami products have been where the price is just like wow that's so much cheaper this gaming laptop from Xiaomi mmm I'm lukewarm about it so I'll probably do a review when that thing comes in but I don't think anyone should be pre-ordering that thing and be like oh this is like the best value because quite frankly I don't think it is okay hope you guys enjoyed this video thumbs we liked it subs you loved it see you guys next time