Xiaomi RedmiBook Pro 16 2024 review - Perhaps the best Meteor Lake laptop with a long battery life

[foo]

What about the keyboard backlight? Does it flicker when set to lower brightness level like the previous RedmiBook models did? Does it still use PWM?

[Joaquín Vacas]

Still rocking the 2016/2017 Mi Notebook Pro 15.6 (i7 8550U + 16GB RAM) and still has a good keyboard, good glas trackpad, good battery life, almost silent (only under compilation or other intensive tasks) and a general build quality that surpasses a lot of notebooks.

I wouldn't mind buying another Xiaomi/Redmi one, so glad they still keep doing a good quality product.

I'm running Linux on it and it's a real pleasure.

[Aquilon]

1 more type-c port would have been great. Anyway this seems to be a good buy with any deal

advertising China Tech and ideology

I dont get people writing something like that.
You are already monitored by all services you are using be it big corporations, american or/and european government or your mobile telecom.
Why do you care about chinese government having some info about you? When you will basically never have any interactions with them while you are daily interacting with google/apple services.
You should be more concerned with google/apple/amazon/[any company] selling/leaking your private info which happens all the time

[Pioter888]

Hi, can someone explain why power consumption in one test stabilized at ~45W and in another at 78W? Why are they throttled at different levels? Were all tests done in maximum power mode (there are 4 different power modes)?

[Hotz]

Hi, can someone explain why power consumption in one test stabilized at ~45W and in another at 78W? Why are they throttled at different levels?

If I understand it correctly the 45W is where the CPU stabilizes. The spec sheet at the beginning of the article shows that the CPU is configured with a PL1 of 45W, which is the value it will stabilize under sustained load. Higher wattage (PL2 of 90W) can only be used for short load spikes.

Also those 45W apply to the CPU only, without any other components (like mainboard, RAM, SSD, cooler).


Then later in the section "Power Management", they measured 78W which probably applies to the whole device (all components together: CPU, mainboard, RAM, SSD, cooler) under sustained load. Whereas 45W from the 78W are already used by the CPU, and the remaining 32W are used by the other components.

At least that's what I think it is...

[Hotz]

...and the remaining 32W are used by the other components.

Uhm... small correction: 33W

[panthakarn karnasuta]

Please check if this machine has the ability to do raids.

[whtetrash]

Either some editors of Notebookcheck are AfD members or they are directly financed by the CCP of China or Russia.
The "Law of the People's Republic of China on National Security" of 2015 (National Security Law) and the "Law of the People's Republic of China on Cybersecurity" of 2017 (Cybersecurity Law) stipulate that all organizations and citizens are obliged to ensure national security and to cooperate with the state security authorities.
According to the 2017 Cybersecurity Law, companies operating in China are required to store important data on servers within the country and to provide authorities with access to their systems and data as part of security audits.
Why is Notebookcheck advertising China Tech and ideology?

Such non-sense.
The US have similar laws with the National Security Act and they have already used it not only to spy its own citizens but also its "allies" either with the Danish embassy or the military bases around the world.

China is getting better than the u.s with high end technology and cost-quality products, it's your own lose if you don't wanna buy it.

[calib]

Something is off about your calibration, like, even color balance isn't correct, you really need to work hard to not balance out R G and B. Is it some kind of default "quick auto calibration"?

I've easily calibrated it to <1 sRGB and <2 P3. Used DisplayCAL with a big colorset.

[Rick]

For its price tag I'd say this is the best productivity Windows laptop of 2024 so far.

[Jancula]

Almost exactly what I was looking for. Just left little bit off by display. Not bothered by lack numpad at all, I like Macbook pro 16 - like design as well. Will wait a little bit for lunar lake model and if they swap/improve display  I 'll go for it next year. Thanks

[Simon Germany]

Hello,
can anyone explain me what the function of the key above the Home button and right of the delete button is, please?
Thanx.

[benlaft]

Something is off about your calibration, like, even color balance isn't correct, you really need to work hard to not balance out R G and B. Is it some kind of default "quick auto calibration"?

I've easily calibrated it to <1 sRGB and <2 P3. Used DisplayCAL with a big colorset.

Hi,

Can you give us your profile please ?
I am very interested !

Thanks !

[Dymyd]

Hello,
can anyone explain me what the function of the key above the Home button and right of the delete button is, please?
Thanx.

It's a privacy shutter button for the webcam. I reinstalled windows to transfer data from my previous laptop and now the webcam as well as the camera privacy shutter aren't working. All the search that I've done suggests that I should reinstall the driver for my webcam but I was unable to find it on the internet or on the Xiaomi website.
Could anyone help me find the right driver?