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Xiaomi Launches Mi Notebook Air Windows 10 Laptop Featuring 1080p Display, Starts at $520 (engadget.com)
Speaking of Chinese electronics giants, Xiaomi on Wednesday announced it is entering the PC market. The company, which is often referred to as "Apple of China", announced its first-ever laptop line, the Mi Notebook Air, running on Windows 10. It comes in two sizes -- 13.3-inch and 12.5-inch -- with both models featuring a slim body, a 1080p display, a backlit keyboard, a USB Type-Charging port. The Notebook Air starts at roughly $520 and goes all the way up to $750. Starting with the smaller of two, the 12.5-inch model is only 12.9mm thick and weighs 1.07kg. It packs in Intel Core M3 CPU with no dedicated GPU, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of SSD. It is priced at $520. The 13.3-inch model, which is 14.8mm thick and weighs 1.28kg, packs in Intel Core i5-6200U Skylake-U processor, an Nvidia GeForce 940MX GPU, 8GB of DDR4 RAM, 256GB of SSD. It is powered by a 40Wh battery, which according to company's claim can last for up to 9.5 hours on a single charge, but can be charged from 0 to 50 percent in half an hour using the bundled USB-C charger. It is priced at $750. No word on when -- and if -- the laptop will be available outside China.
It's too early in the day to parse that word salad of a headline.
This sounds kind of interesting until you you google the company's name and you come across posts like this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/security/xiaomi-firmware-multiple-backdoords-t2847069
I wouldn't trust that hardware.
According to the press release. it is running Windows 10. Now which government is spying on you?
#boring
This look extraordinarily similar to a Macbook Pro.
(And even more than the usual 'resemblance' that Xiaomi's products have for other manufacturer's products).
Isn't that the website that pushes malware-ridden adware and forces you to remove adblock to visit their site?
Is today stupid people derping about millennials day on Slashderp?
I'm assuming she gushed out of your ass.
It's one troll who's been doing this for a few weeks and has recently stepped up its antics. You can safely ignore any post that mentions 'millennial snowflakes'. This is one troll who has been at this for awhile and didn't get a lot of bites, so it apparently has decided to become more annoying.
By the first sentence of the summary, at least one writes it.
I'll repeat it here just in case manishs sobers up and fixes it:
At the bottom of the
D) All of the above.
$hill.
Honestly, I'm far less about the Chinese spying on me than my government. I mean, what do the Chinese care about me, other than as a potential customer? My own government though - anything I might do or talk about that poses a legitimate threat to the powers that be is liable to get me labeled as a terrorist and sorely inconvenienced if not outright "disappeared".
And as the level of corruption in our governments become clear, the obligation upon us all to begin fighting back against the current oligarchies steadily increases. I doubt I'll be the one that comes up with a solution, but when my government is spying on me, I can only assume it's also spying on those who *are* coming up with solutions. And that it will spare no expense in making sure such solutions are destroyed before they even begin to gather the necessary momentum.
--- Most topics have many sides worth arguing, allow me to take one opposite you.
What computer do you use and where was it made?
Your comment doesn't actually make sense. Someone may be a racist if they say that they dislike the Chinese people or some such. But disliking the Chinese government is not racist. Disliking how the lack of proper laws in China have results in many products there being cheap knock-offs isn't a racist thing; it is reacting to the reality. Nothing against the people or the race. It is the establishments and government that are the problem.
Yeah, you should get that checked.
can you wipe windows and native-boot Linux on it? Not interested otherwise.
"Chinese" is not a race. And one should be free to choose not to buy anything from anybody for whatever reasons. Or for no reasons at all.
look more and more desirable by the day.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
Bit of an unfair generalization.
Plenty of Indians write like that too.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Is the malware and spyware that will come pre-installed in these fully compatible with the malware and spyware that's baked into Windows 10?
Are YOU using the TOOL, or is the TOOL using YOU? Think about it!
Home built desktop, parts made all over the world with final assembly on my kitchen table... Unfortunately it runs Windows, so Redmond WA is monitoring me.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Too bad it has backdoored Intel CPU... can't they make some non-US ARM ones?
As long as you don't go online, you should be fine.
E) Certainly not the Spanish government!
No no no no no, you got it all wrong! You have to use US, Chinese and Russian devices together in a chain, so that nobody can crack the whole! Here you go!
(company name) launches (product name) [missing "a"] Windows 10 laptop featuring [missing "a"] 1080p display, starts at $520.
So, two missing "a" and you can't parse a title? I've seen much worst right here on Slashdot, especially because of the english-style "word case" where common words with an uppercase first letter just confuses things even more.
Seems more like a competitor to ASUS Zenbooks - similar specs for a lower price. Call me when you add a retina display, then I will buy it for running emulators of old 8/16-bit computers and older consoles.
So you're saying the firmware in the hard drive, the DVD drive, on the video card, and in the mouse are all code you've not stepped through carefully? Not even the KEYBOARD microcontroller's firmware???
That was unexpected...
As the saying goes, "Any time you're the something 'of something', you're not the anything of anything"
The same goes for Apple. They weren't the first company to come out with ultrathin laptops.
The real thing to trash millenials for is this "ownership culture" of theirs. The first person to spew something terribly obvious or cliche is automatically declared the owner of it.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
<resigned voice> nobody expects the spanish inquisition... </resigned voice>
I wonder if they copied the UEFI as well, if so, this could be a cheap Mac clone (given it doesn't have yesteryear's wifi and Bluetooth).
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What government?
2 elections in 6 months and still in crisis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Snook Nuke
I presume they mean Intel integrated GPU, rather than some software-only display solution, because Intel CPUs have come with pretty decent on-die GPUs for a few years now.
It sounds like the usual ignorant bashing of integrated GPUs all over again. I guess it was true in the very early 2000s or so, but now it's just silly. For example, AMD has advertised their APU chips with the slogan of "discrete-level GPUs", since they've included Radeon GPUs on the same die, naturally with much fewer processing units than the discrete models. But if you look at current on-die Intel GPUs, they compare pretty nicely with the AMD offerings, especially given their process advantages other power-saving features.
I'm guessing that those who choose an "Air" laptop with a big-ass Nvidia GPU, don't know what they're doing.
Escher was the first MC and Giger invented the HR department.
> They weren't the first company to come out with ultrathin laptops.
Indeed. Intel was. They were making ultrathin laptop reference designs and showing them to the manufacturers for years before they became common. Apple was arguably the first laptop manufacturer to take it seriously, but Intel designed the tech to make it possible.
A 1080p screen and inexpensive? That's great! But the screen is too damn tiny, the company doesn't have a proven track record (I wouldn't be surprised if lots failed from the heat or mechanical issues). I guess we'll keep buying Dells and stuff for a while longer.
Dell's don't fall apart? I've seen a few that did.
1080p is 1920x1080. A 13" retina display is 2560x1600. I have both (a work laptop and a personal MBP). There is no comparison. The retina display is simply better to work on.
I should use this sig to advertise my book ISBN-13 : 978-1501515132.
I can't believe it took 2 hours to mod the parent comment up. Slashdot, I am disappoint.
"...The company, which is often referred to as "Apple of China"..."
No, manishs, you Whore, nobody calls it the "Apple of China", except Whores like _you_.
Once Xiaomi develops several generations of its own Operating Systems over several decades, along with a slew of included, and often free, innovative Programs, Xiaomi is just another Chinese Equipment Jobber, bigger, but no better or worse, than many others.
And here is where I get unpopular.
The Chinese are quite capable of manufacturing not only First Rate, but State Of the Art equipment. I know. I've bought some of it, especially where it comes to X-Ray Optics. It is those Distributers in the _West_ who insist on substandard products at very low prices, in their insane Race to the Bottom, and Mutual Annihilation.
Oh, by the way, manishs, you are a Whore.
Yes, does it come with a magnifying glass? Will someone have the guts to make 1600x900 panels so the user can, you know, use the laptop?
Putting in panels that read "1080p" and "Full HD" pleases middle-aged men in suits (who will keep using their mac pro book or whatever) and idiot journalists.
But on a laptop, you'll run Win32, GTK2, Qt4, Fltk etc. applications or newer stuff that might not scale properly anyway.
1080p 12.5" is suitable for a tablet, or a small TV / special media player, not a laptop.
RIP Apple
To be fair, the Windows 10 on it is doing the most spying of all.
It is priced at $750. No word on when -- and if -- the laptop will be available outside China.
So why even convert the price to USD? For that matter why even post the story on slashdot? I doubt the Chinese government allows their citizens access to slashdot.
This is not new. Wouldn't buy a Ferrari if it had Windows 10 on it.
Man, if it had a hinge that folded 360 degrees I'd really be in love!
Why is it so expensive?
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Chinese is as much of a race as any other, which are also all basically meaningless.
For humans, race as a biological taxonomy doesn't actually exist with any backing evidence. Instead, races are socially defined arbitrarily as a common set of accepted characteristics (including physical attributes, culture, language, etc.) which can pretty much fluidly change over time from within any set of people. Which is partially why most racism is as stupid as it is.
So, I see your Chinese and raise you a Tutsi and Hutu with some Aryan for spice.
<resigned voice> nobody expects the spanish inquisition... </resigned voice>
We spaniards are too busy with corruption, Catalonian separatists and watching the circus of our thief politicians trying to establish a Government. Also, why be spying when you can be taking a nap? :)
Wait until november and it will probably be 3 elections in 1 year. Still in crisis. Our politicians? Still robbing us.