Xiaomi Unveils 14" and 16" RedmiBook (2025) with 12-core Intel Core 200H CPU

[GGforever]

Xiaomi has officially introduced the 2025-lineup for its RedmiBook laptop, which comes in 14-inch and 16-inch flavors. Although the launch is limited to China as of now, its highly probable that the laptop will visit the international market as well. At its heart, both the variants are powered by the Core 5 220H CPU based on Raptor Lake-H Refresh. The chip sports 12 cores and 16 threads, with clock speeds of 2 to 4.9 GHz. There is no dedicated graphics support, and the system relies on the Iris Xe iGPU that is substantially slower than the newer Arc iGPUs found in Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake lineups.

The laptops are relatively thin and light, at 15.9 mm thin, and tip the scales at 1.36 and 1.65 kg respectively. Xiaomi advertises 19.05 hours of battery life courtesy of a 72 Wh battery, but the real world performance will almost certainly be slightly worse. The 14-inch model sports a 2.8K LCD, whereas the 16-inch version, intriguingly, sports a 2.5K display. Both the displays feature a refresh rate of 120 Hz - a welcome addition for sure. The product starts at around $640 for the 14-inch variant with a 16 GB + 512 GB configuration, and the 16-inch version costs around $30 more.



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[Garrus]

Intel lying to the customer

person goes in thinking they are getting Lunar Lake level laptop, actually leaves with 3rd rate raptor lake...

 

[Vayra86]

What the flying FUCK is a 2.6 and 2.8K display.

Stop that nonsense. PLEASE. Literally nobody knows what it means. There's also a typo in the article because the pic says 2.5K. Which says just as little, but adds even more confusion.

 

[TheLostSwede]

What the flying FUCK is a 2.6 and 2.8K display.

Stop that nonsense. PLEASE. Literally nobody knows what it means. There's also a typo in the article because the pic says 2.5K. Which says just as little, but adds even more confusion.

2.8k is usually 2880x1800. 2.5k, no idea, maybe 2560x something?

 

[Chrispy_]

2.8k 2880x1800 usually. 2.5k, no idea, maybe 2560x something?

Yep, you're probably right, which is irritating in another way:

2880 is 2.9K if that's the system they're using, and 2560 is 2.6K

The "K" system is metric, so should obey the laws of math and rouding up/down.
The DCI 2K/4K/8K system is a specific standard for fimmakers that at least makes some kind of sense because it's 4096 pixels wide which is accepted as 4K for a binary system in a decimal world. It's truly 4Ki and we're used to mixing K and Ki in the computing world anyway.

This whole nonsense started when consumer-grade TVs just doubled FullHD and they misleadingly called it 4K even when it wasn't. That lie has been built on and misused since it was introduced in 2007. It does have proper naming, just like everything else:

1280x720 = 720p = HD​

1920x1080 = 1080p = FHD​

2560x1440 = 1440p = QHD​

3840x2160 = 2160p = UHD​

Yeah the abbreviation is UHD, not 4K - because it's neither >4000 horizontal pixels, nor is it DCI 4K. Marketing people are just deceptive, inaccurate idiots who constantly f*** everything up.

 

[3valatzy]

1280x720 = 720p = HD

1920x1080 = 1080p = FHD​

2560x1440 = 1440p = QHD​

3840x2160 = 2160p = UHD​

Yeah the abbreviation is UHD, not 4K

UHD is two types - 4K and 8K

1280x720 = 720p = HD

1920x1080 = 1080p = FHD​

2560x1440 = 1440p = QHD​

3840x2160 = 2160p = UHD 4K​

7680x4320 = 4320p = UHD 8K​

15360×8640 = 8640p = FUHD 16K​

etc...​

 

[Chrispy_]

UHD is two types - 4K and 8K

1280x720 = 720p = HD

1920x1080 = 1080p = FHD​

2560x1440 = 1440p = QHD​

3840x2160 = 2160p = UHD 4K​

7680x4320 = 4320p = UHD 8K​

15360×8640 = 8640p = FUHD 16K​

etc...​

That's the BT.2020 spec you're using there, and 2160p is UHDTV1 and 4320 is UHDTV2

4K and 8K are misnomers appropriated to the standard by the aforementioned idiots who always ruin everything.

If they were only paid 3840/4096 of what they agreed to, you can bet they'd change their ways. Nobody wants to be short-changed by 6.25%

 

[trsttte]

2.5k usually means QHD 2560x1440p (when they don't decide to wrongly say 2k) or 2560x1600p if it's a 16:10 displays. 2.8k can be anything for all I know

Because why advervise things clearly

2880 is 2.9K if that's the system they're using, and 2560 is 2.6K

The "K" system is metric, so should obey the laws of math and rouding up/down.
The DCI 2K/4K/8K system is a specific standard for fimmakers that at least makes some kind of sense because it's 4096 pixels wide which is accepted as 4K for a binary system in a decimal world. It's truly 4Ki and we're used to mixing K and Ki in the computing world anyway.

This whole nonsense started when consumer-grade TVs just doubled FullHD and they misleadingly called it 4K even when it wasn't.

The K is not metric, it is meaningless 4K came from the resolution being 4x that of Full HD 1920x1080, why exactly the K was added beats me, maybe the marketing idiots though it sounded cool or something

2.5k would match 2880x1800 exactly, but then what the hell is 2.8k? That's the problem of assumed formats Any organization like VESA for example could solve this in a heartbeat, but they're more interested in creating more ClearMR levels that monitors will continue to ignore.

 

[Random_User]

Yep, you're probably right, which is irritating in another way:

2880 is 2.9K if that's the system they're using, and 2560 is 2.6K

The "K" system is metric, so should obey the laws of math and rouding up/down.
The DCI 2K/4K/8K system is a specific standard for fimmakers that at least makes some kind of sense because it's 4096 pixels wide which is accepted as 4K for a binary system in a decimal world. It's truly 4Ki and we're used to mixing K and Ki in the computing world anyway.

This whole nonsense started when consumer-grade TVs just doubled FullHD and they misleadingly called it 4K even when it wasn't. That lie has been built on and misused since it was introduced in 2007. It does have proper naming, just like everything else:

1280x720 = 720p = HD​

1920x1080 = 1080p = FHD​

2560x1440 = 1440p = QHD​

3840x2160 = 2160p = UHD​

Yeah the abbreviation is UHD, not 4K - because it's neither >4000 horizontal pixels, nor is it DCI 4K. Marketing people are just deceptive, inaccurate idiots who constantly f*** everything up.

UHD is still whoping three symbols, no one knows about. 4K is two. And it is like E-ATX "standard", which doesn't even exist in any of the real spec sheets.

2.5k usually means QHD 2560x1440p (when they don't decide to wrongly say 2k) or 2560x1600p if it's a 16:10 displays. 2.8k can be anything for all I know

Because why advervise things clearly

Because of dumb acceptance of dumb marketing, by gulible people following the fancy stickers, and not the boring specs symbols, probably located somewhere near.
The numbers in format/resolution, was strictly bound to the height spec, not the width. 4K was just garbage astroturfing by movie companies. Just akin megapixels, back in the phone days. Because such a jump 1080p to 4K.

But the real size, is still stricly twice as much, whether to count by height, or width. Though, ignorance is a pillar of any marketing.

 

[_roman_]

3840x2160 = 2160p = UHD 4K7680x4320 = 4320p = UHD 8K

Nevertheless its computer mathematics false.
Fake 4K resolution.

What is the result for 2 ^ 12 ? I doubt it's 3840.

Base 10 is also not 4k
k https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

For those who do not get it. These examples are told always.
kilogramm (wrong si base unit - should be gramm - but that'S another topic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units)
kilometer

That just shows how less educated some people are. Same bullshit I always complained over the years with those Gb (on graphic cards, harddrives, dram, file systems). Than GiB was introduced. Most linux userspace shows now the better units. Some guys responded well these are the usual units and where happy in certain german based sites.
I want to borrow 4096€ and return a day later only 3840€. (both are "4k")
I want to borrow 4096€ and return a day later only 4000€. (base 2 vs base 10)

Techsites could only just write down the display resolution. and do not use 4k and other nonsense. Step forward with the right thing.

 

[kondamin]

Pricing looks ok, I doubt they will as cheap here in euroland though.
Not going to spend more than 800 on a meltinglake laptop

 

[londiste]

To top off the discussion about stupid resolution naming - these laptops should be 16:10...
While not exactly standard the ####p notation comes from TV resolutions with 16:9 aspect ratio and is generally used for such.
All the HD, FHD, QHD, UHD monikers are also 16:9 with W/UW prefixes for wides and ultrawides.

All the marketing with 2.xK should be burned in fire. Unless you are doing some sort of common standard, just write out the bloody resolution.

 

[Vayra86]

I'll go back to enjoying my WQHD 3.4K by 1.4K monitor now, which has 3440x1440 resolution. I hope I'll find the 40x40 missing pixels along the way

 

[Chrispy_]

All the marketing with 2.xK should be burned in fire. Unless you are doing some sort of common standard, just write out the bloody resolution.

Exactly.

The only use of K in resolution is the DCI theatre standard, it's not relevant to PC hardware at all and is solely for the hardware filmmakers use in the movie industry for digital theatre projections.

4K appears to be a mistake that has stuck around for so long it's now commonly-accepted, but that's not a reason to back-port that stupid mistake to all the other resolutions.

 

[_roman_]

Not sure if its sarcasm. It's not only 40x40 pixel (which seems so with such high resolution 3440x1440)

You have less pixel.

hole x-axis * missing pixel

hole y-axis * missing pixel

Not the cross section from x and y-axis missing pixel ( ... 40x40 pixel)

 

[Chrispy_]

Getting back on the topic of these laptops, I've always found the RedmiBook laptops really nice. Well made and high-quality materials for the money.

The only thing stopping me from buying them is that they come in US International ANSI layout only, so around 40% of the global population gets the wrong keyboard for their region.

 

[NoLoihi]

19.05h of browsing would be supreme battery life (only bested by Lunar Lake, Snapdragon X Elite, maybe Apple M-Series (?), etc.), that sure can’t be true!? (I’ve verified with Google Translate that that’s what it says on the poster.) Sooooo, 19.05h of being turned on at the lowest brightness setting that doesn’t outright have the screen off? What’s the measurement that’s based on!?

(I think 19.05h of being turned on wouldn’t be too bad either? What’s the reference there? I remember NotebookCheck routinely got numbers in this vicinity. The MSI Prestige 16 B1MG-001US with Meteor Lake H—so actually newer—would have done 18.09h in their Idle test with 72Wh of battery capacity. (It did 1506min with 99.9Wh.))