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Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

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Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

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Post by andycjw »

knotty66 wrote: post #51
vincentkriek wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What other options would you recommend?

For a cheap, lightweight development laptop I use a Toshiba Chromebook 2 (2015) with a 240GB SSD fitted. Build quality is not up to Apple standards but is still decent. Screen is much, much better than Macbook Air screen though. Battery life is very good. I use Arch Linux and With a bit of tweaking, everything works (bluetooth, wifi, keyboard backlight, suspend/resume etc). I can also dual boot into ChromeOS which is…

I can only find Toshiba Chromebook 2 with 16GB SSD onboard, how did you get 240GB SSD fitted?

Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

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Post by Nullabillity »

merb wrote: post #12
anilgulecha wrote: post #4

If 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.

Install nvidia, install bumblebee, add yourself to the bumblebee group. Not really that hard...

Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

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Post by Nullabillity »

personjerry wrote: post #16
merb wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Not anymore, these days radeon is far better than fglrx and works great straight out of the box.

Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

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Post by contingencies »

kyriakos wrote: post #34
argonaut wrote: post #29

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Not true. If Xiaomi sells anything in the US, they can definitely be sued.

thats why they are not selling in the US in the first place

US consumers are bankrupt by definition anyway... even US companies have to offer them payment plans to make a sale. Just look at the cellphone market!

Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

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Post by oblio »

xorcist wrote: post #33
personjerry wrote: post #16

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In my experience nvidia has always been much easier to install than amd (fglrx).

That there even worse alternatives isn't helping. Avoid third party binary modules. Sure, they might work right now but you'll have no guarantees it'll work in the future. You also risk interactions with other subsystems (sleep etc.). It would be like Windows, where your printer might prevent you from upgrading your operating system. If you intend to run Linux on the thing, buy things that Linux supports out of the b…

While your theoretical point of view is solid, reality kind of disagrees with it.

The binary blob provided by Nvidia have been quite reliable across the years (and I think they've been available for more than 10 years) while the open source ATI/AMD drivers have frequently failed to deliver.

Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

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Post by sohkamyung »

mi_sucks wrote: post #90

I am pretty sure you are one of those online fanboys/shills who pop up everywhere to defend MI. Forget about security, HOW MANY PHONES OF MI can do ENCRYPTION, HOW MANY PHONES EVER DID ENCRYPTION. settings->security->encrypt == this option is absent from all phones. MI phones is not even run true android

On my Xiaomi Redmi Note 3 I see this:

Settings -> Additional Settings -> Privacy -> Encrypt Phone

My About Phone:

- Model: REDMI NOTE 3

- Android: 5.1.1 LMY47V

- Android Security Patch Level: 2016-07-01

- MIUI version: MIUI Global 7.5 | Stable 7.5.3.0(LHOMIDE)

Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

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Post by snemvalts »

mi_sucks wrote: post #90

I am pretty sure you are one of those online fanboys/shills who pop up everywhere to defend MI. Forget about security, HOW MANY PHONES OF MI can do ENCRYPTION, HOW MANY PHONES EVER DID ENCRYPTION. settings->security->encrypt == this option is absent from all phones. MI phones is not even run true android

What? Full encryption is available on almost all Mi phones, including my Redmi Note 3 Pro: https://www.reddit.com/r/Xiaomi/comments/4nkrcj/encryption_f....

Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

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Post by elaus »

mi_sucks wrote: post #88

MI3 released in 2014 First real update(android update) it got was in July 2016 . also, you cannot delete your i.mi.com account you cannot delete the data once uploaded on i.mi.com ( so called MI cloud). You can keep writing them emails and they will refuse to answer. their service center is pathetic. ( not few, not in exception cases, but in all cases). forget about security updates, you do not even have encryption o…

> BEWARE OF ONLINE TROLLS […], they are everywhere.

Tbh a posting from a new account named "mi_sucks" raises some flags for me as well…

Re: Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

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Post by raihansaputra »

MichaelGG wrote: post #77
merb wrote: post #12

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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.

Use Windows for the metal OS, then run Linux on top (VMware or WSL). Best of both worlds.

i'm curious, do a lot of people run this setup? does the overhead of running in vm for your daily tasks worth it?
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