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TESTED XIAOMI MI NOTEBOOK 14 HORIZON EDITION

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For 60K, you get high-quality innards and practically everything else in place to get started with your work from home journey. This isn’t the best thin-and-light laptop in the market, but it’s definitely trading the right amount of performance and style for the cash you’re putting down.

It’s modern, it’s beautiful and it wants to blend in. Those are some of the thoughts we got when we saw the Mi NoteBook 14 Horizon Edition. You can even call it a MacBook clone when describing its design. Xiaomi’s kept the design as clean as possible.

We had no problems getting on with our work smoothly, which is remarkable for this dinky machine. Photoshop, InDesign and Premiere Pro ran simultaneously without any effort and the machine did not even heat up as much. 4K video edits will start lagging on Premiere Pro, so we advise not to venture there by any means.

Xiaomi has made the battery adapter quite small and easily portable, which juices up the laptop in around 2 hours from scratch. That two hours of juicing up will run this laptop for a good 6 hours. Maybe more, depending on your workload. Our daily Google Chrome and WhatsApp usage lasted us almost a good full day. And there are no problems playing indie or graphic light games like Valorant and CS GO too.

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