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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 bad enough my own government is spying on me, I don't need the Chinese doing it as well.
LOL! Only stupid millennial snowflakes want thin laptops. Nobody else wants something that can be easily broken in half and will break sooner because of inadequate heat dissipation. But the stupid millennials want thin computers because they're too lazy to carry anything slightly bigger and heavier.
It's too early in the day to parse that word salad of a headline.
It read like China spam.
by not having to design it..
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.
How many Chinamen actually read this site? The answer, of course, is none.
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).
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Isn't that the website that pushes malware-ridden adware and forces you to remove adblock to visit their site?
Can beat the yellows for pure neck when stealing things though. Born thieves.
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.
$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.
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can you wipe windows and native-boot Linux on it? Not interested otherwise.
look more and more desirable by the day.
"The agriculture ministry is not in charge of Gundam" - Japanese ministry official.
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!
Too bad it has backdoored Intel CPU... can't they make some non-US ARM ones?
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.
As the saying goes, "Any time you're the something 'of something', you're not the anything of anything"
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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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.
"...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.
RIP Apple
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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