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.

Comments

Not trustworthy

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:jesus christ

[Anonymous Coward]

Nobody reads summaries anymore. Now we have to fit it all in the title.

Who is spying on me?

[Immerman]

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.

Re:Who is spying on me?

[AmiMoJo]

This feature runs on the phone, built in to the telephone app, so to use it for spying your phone would already have to be compromised. In which case they can already turn your GPS on whenever they like anyway.

Generally speaking though there is no need for them to bother hacking your device. The phone company is legally required to track your phone at all times anyway.

Linux?

[JustNiz]

can you wipe windows and native-boot Linux on it? Not interested otherwise.

Re:No chinese products for me, thanks

[Eponymous Coward]

As long as you don't go online, you should be fine.

Re:No chinese products for me, thanks

[cant_get_a_good_nick]

E) Certainly not the Spanish government!

That was unexpected...

A MacBook Air without the Apple logo

[guruevi]

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).