Xiaomi doesn’t wow me with the price of its Windows gaming laptop

One of the biggest Android device manufacturers in China is expanding into the gaming PC space. Xiaomi, which makes high-end smartphones, announced its Mi Gaming Laptop this week. But unlike its smartphones, this Xiaomi product doesn’t have the wow-factor affordable price that the company is known for.

The Mi Gaming Laptop is a 15.6-inch device that features a 1080p screen, a 7th-gen i7, and an Nvidia GTX 1060 video card (it also has an more affordable i5 model with a GTX 1050 Ti). The Mi also packs 16GB of memory, a 256GB SSD, and a 1TB HDD. If you’re in China, you can get the i7/1060 model for 9,000 RMB (approximately $1,460) or the i5/1050 Ti for 6,000 RMB ($950). And in that country, that’s an excellent deal compared to something like an Alienware gaming laptop with similar specs that sells for an astounding 17,699 RMB (nearly $2,830).