If it gets full Linux support, i.e. I can blow away Windows and use Ubuntu, then I'm in. This'll be my last macbook ..
Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
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#12If the RAM is user-upgradable, this will make for an excellent dev machine. Given it's a chinese laptop, it will surely not be locked, so Ubuntu will run well as well.
pretty naive. especially since it has a dual graphics with nvidia. which is really akward to "correctly" install on linux.
and then there are drivers. pretty sure that there won't be many stuff that directly works on linux.
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#13People shit on Xiaomi here but even imitation requires some level of artistry and finesse. This looks like a good clone of Air, and I haven't seen Acer/Lenovo/Dell manage to do that yet.
Exactly. I have long wanted to switch back to windows, and this is the first one that makes me smile (I am price sensitive:-)
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#14Every competitor for Apple is a good thing :)
Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
#15If the RAM is user-upgradable, this will make for an excellent dev machine. Given it's a chinese laptop, it will surely not be locked, so Ubuntu will run well as well.
If they use a good Wifi card or it can be opened easily (which should be a given if RAM can be upgraded). I bought the XPS13 2015 and had a lot of struggle with it until I exchanged the Broadcom card for one from Intel.
Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
#16If the RAM is user-upgradable, this will make for an excellent dev machine. Given it's a chinese laptop, it will surely not be locked, so Ubuntu will run well as well.
pretty naive. especially since it has a dual graphics with nvidia. which is really akward to "correctly" install on linux. and then there are drivers. pretty sure that there won't be many stuff that directly works on linux.
In my experience nvidia has always been much easier to install than amd (fglrx).
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#17If the RAM is user-upgradable, this will make for an excellent dev machine. Given it's a chinese laptop, it will surely not be locked, so Ubuntu will run well as well.
Ubuntu and batteries are not good friends :-( I tried few times and still using apple
Using tlp and powertop can significantly improve the battery life.
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#19I am very tempted to try to acquire one. Seems like it would be a great portable development machine.
For robotics work I always end up wanting a small but decent computer to run my ROS visualizations/algorithms and to make small code edits. This has a decent c/gpu, good battery, small form factor, ssd slot, and isn't ungodly expensive. I usually end up running a VM on my primary development laptop but that is very annoying, a dedicated and less valuable machine would be better.
Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
#20If the RAM is user-upgradable, this will make for an excellent dev machine. Given it's a chinese laptop, it will surely not be locked, so Ubuntu will run well as well.
Are you saying Ubuntu runs well on all laptops which are not locked?
I think he's talking about the UEFI non-sense that often happens with western manufacturers to lock it to windows (preventing the switching of the signing keys).
I'm not sure how true his thought is in relation to china,but neither here nor there.