Xiaomi Mi Pad or Mi Pad 2?

LPR0r on 24/04/2016 - 08:41

I'm having trouble deciding between the original Mi Pad and Mi Pad 2.

The Mi Pad 2 has an all-aluminum body that is only 6.95mm compared to the 8.5mm of the previous model and weighs 322g compared to 360g of the previous model.

The Mi Pad 2 also runs on a new 14nm Intel Atom X5-Z8500 64-bit processor with 2GB RAM, which replaces the NVIDIA Tegra K1 on the previous model. The tablet also supports Wi-Fi 802.11ac and has the new USB Type-C connector. The rest of the specifications include the same 7.9-inch 2048x1536 resolution display, 8 megapixel camera on the back and 5 megapixels on the front, and a smaller 6190mAh battery, compared to the 6700mAh on the previous model.

Is the original with Tegra K1 worth the upgrade to the Atom X5-Z8500?

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Comments

  • Vieira4 on 24/04/2016 - 09:57

    mi pad 1 has micro sd card slot

    • PR0r on 24/04/2016 - 10:04

      yahh nicely spotted, thanks.

      From a few reviews I've read, gaming doesn't seem to be as good compared to the original.
      Not being able to expand storage is definitely a major factor to consider.

      What's confused me as the 2 has exceptionally good benchmark scores.

  • iridiumstem on 25/04/2016 - 04:36
    +1

    Do bear in mind, the AnTuTu benchmark that Xiaomi is using for mipad 2 is from AnTuTu version 6.
    To quote comments from a news article:

    Some back story for people who don't know — in Chinese media they have already started using the antutu v6 beta. on cnBeta a week or so ago there was a story about that. Every time antutu's major version number changes the linear scaling also changes, often leading to huge jumps. The note 5 jumped up to about 83k with the new version, for example. This means that scores from previous versions of antutu are not comparable with scores of later versions of antutu.

    the changes specifically for antutu v6 were to count single core performance much higher and multi core performance much lower in the total score — so intel and apple chips (were they tested with it) should score much higher than they do naturally.

    From same page: a.disquscdn.com/uploads/mediaembed/images/2870/1187/original.jpg

    In short, you really can't compare it to other Antutu benchmark scores unless it's from the same version, i.e. most Antutu benchmark you'd see for MiPad 1 would be from older Antutu benchmark.

    I personally think MiPad 2 is not an upgrade from MiPad 1 if you are looking for an Android device. Intel chips as far as I could see can have issues with Android.

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