Jul 27, 2016 04:27 PM
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Before we start talking experience, let’s talk about the actual hardware of the Xiaomi MiPad 2. Picking up from the design aspects, that full metal back includes the adequate holes to support your normal 3.5mm headphone jack and the new USB Type-C charging and data cable. The front glass goes edge to edge and there are capacitive off-screen navigation buttons in the lower bezel area.
Inside the MiPad 2 is an Intel processor, the Atom X5-Z8500, with 2GB of RAM, 16GB or 64GB of internal storage and a 6190mAh battery.
The Xiaomi Mi Pad features a 7.9-inch IPS LCD capacitive touchscreen display with a resolution of 1536 x 2048 pixels that roughly translates to 324 ppi.
No wonder this is by far the best display that we have seen in a tablet of this price category. Although the colours were a tad warmer, we were pretty pleased with what the Mi Pad has to offer in the display output department.
More importantly, the Mi Pad offers some really crisp viewing angles. We observed almost negligible amount of discoloration upon viewing from different angles.
he MiPad is powered by a 2.2 GHz quad-core Nvidia Tegra K1 CPU alongside ULP GeForce Kepler(192 cores) GPU and 2GB RAM.
Just to cut short the chase here, let's just say the Mi Pad is a monster in terms of raw power output. It is not the dual-core K1 processor, which uses a different and is a more potent processor that Google has used in its Nexus 9 but for the price the quad-core K1 in the Mi Pad is very very good.
The Mi Pad K1 processor uses four ARM A15 cores. These have only 32-bit capabilities but currently that should not be a limitation for the Mi Pad, especially considering how it still runs on Android KitKat, which doesn't support 64-bit computing.
As expected, the Mi Pad blew the competition away(in this price bracket, even the higher ones) especially with GPU intensive tasks. While synthetic benchmarks left nothing to the imagination, we decided to take the Mi Pad for a real swing.
The Nvidia Tegra K1 is a beast when it come to performance. The Tegra K1 is the same chip Google uses in its Nexus 9 tablet but whereas the Nexus 9 uses a 64-bit version of the chip, the Mi Pad comes with a 32-bit version of the same. Now, even though the hardware is almost a year old, and the Mi Pad uses only the 32-bit version of Tegra K1, it definitely raises the performance standards in the budget category.
