The Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro 2 is widely believed to be among the new products that the Chinese manufacturer will be unveiling at the ChinaJoy event set this Friday, Aug. 3. The new laptop is pegged to succeed the Mi Notebook Pro, and new teasers have served as appetizers on what the mobile device is likely to carry.
Spotted at the official Weibo account of Xiaomi’s PC line is an equation depicting a pen, the chemical symbols of Benzene and Praseodymium and a test tube labeled oxygen. From the illustration, a careful interpretation would render the words “notebook” and the symbols forming “Pr + O2”. The result of combining all of them would form the name Mi Notebook Pro 2.
Aside from that, another teaser hints at the release date and place of the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro 2. The image shows a keyboard that highlights certain keys 3, 8, C and J. When put together, they hint at the possible launch of a device happening on the third of August (8/3) with the venue having the initials C and J (ChinaJoy).
Finally, one of the main specs of the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro 2 may have been indicated in the image as well. The caption below shows a string of muddle characters “!)%)”. Interpreters point out how these are the characters that would appear on a screen when keyed in on caps (1050).
According to Gizmo China, this hints at possibly seeing the device with an NVIDIA GTX 1050 graphics card, an essential upgrade from the previous one the Mi Notebook Pro used, the MX150.
Aside from those hints, it remains to be seen what other specs the laptop will carry. The Xiaomi Mi Pro 2 is expected to come with plenty of upgrades as it tries to sustain the rapport that its predecessor made.
The Xiaomi Mi Pro was a device sporting a high-quality design and build, the company’s pitch to combat Apple’s famed MacBook line. The 15.6-inch variant led the clan of notebooks that also had 12.5- and 13.3-inch model variants.
According to ZDNet, the Xiaomi Mi Pro offered decent specs that included an 8th generation Intel Core i5-8250U SoC, 8 GB of DDR4 RAM and 256 GB Samsung PM961 PCIe NVMe SSD. Though there were Core i7 versions available, the i5 already rendered an impressive performance.
With its successor looming over the horizon, there is a chance that Xiaomi could bump up the processor to the Core i7, same with the RAM and storage. All that should be known soon with the ChinaJoy event set to unfold.
