Laptop manufacturers have long had an unspoken rule that a gaming laptop should be either expensive or very expensive. As time and statistics of players on Steam have shown, this concept has little to do with reality, because most gamers do not need a stable 60 FPS at the highest possible graphics settings in every new AAA project. It is for such gamers that the line of Xiaomi Mi Gaming Laptops has been created.

Xiaomi designers decided to outdo Apple in their asceticism, so it is not surprising that the typical Xiaomi Mi Gaming Laptop does not seem to be what it really is. Outwardly, this is a moderately strict and inconspicuous black laptop, almost devoid of logos and identification marks. At the same time, the laptops of the series stand out visually thanks to unusual display hinges, massive air intakes and multi-coloured backlighting of the keyboard.


Entry-level trims mostly use bundles of a Core i5 processor and NVIDIA GTX 1050 Ti graphics, while high-end builds will find quite powerful bundles with a Core i7 caliber processor, a solid RTX 2060 graphics card and 16 GB of RAM. As for internal storage, the 2018 models used a hybrid array of SSD and HDD. Later, Xiaomi switched to M.2 SSD with a capacity of 512 – 1024 GB.

Other features of the Xiaomi Mi Gaming Laptop series include a backlit island keyboard, a comfortable glass touchpad, a dedicated card reader, loud speakers with Dolby Atmos support, a gigabit LAN port, an HDMI output for connecting an additional monitor, and a whole bunch of USB ports for a mouse or gamepad.