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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 josteink »

scotu wrote: post #59
josteink wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This looks like a good clone of Air, and I haven't seen Acer/Lenovo/Dell manage to do that yet. Clearly it's not a cheap product, but the Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 is razor thin, high powered, well built, and very good looking. Maybe I'm missing something?

I cannot trust Lenovo being competent at what they do after superfish, I wonder how can any of the readers of hacker news still think of buying from them... (this doesn't mean that competitors are competent or anything, but being caught like they were undermines my basic trust threshold)

> I cannot trust Lenovo being competent at what they do after superfish, I wonder how can any of the readers of hacker news still think of buying from them.

It was certainly a giant blunder, but like all of these issues they are Windows only, and usually only if you use the factory OS image.

Like most(?) of the HN crowd not using Apple products, I run Linux, so that kind of stuff doesn't affect me at all. I assume the remaining ones reinstall using their own installation-media too?

It doesn't excuse Lenovo's behaviour and certainly can make you question their judgement, but all in all, I'm one of those who are putting less weight on this issue than others may do.

What matters most to me, are the practical aspects: what can this product do for me? And Carbon X1 Thinkpads are among the best lightweight laptops out there.

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

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Post by teekert »

To me, Xiaomi means quality, I have a Xiaomi battery pack, it's very solid and feels high quality. So does my OnePlus3, it seems like Chinese (designed) is no longer synonymous with cheap and low quality. They are ready to take over. They are removing the usp of western (designed) products. Admittedly they do it partly via copying. What is the next frontier for western companies? Responsible design? Environmentally friendly design/manufacturing? The robotic revolution can certainly bring parts of the manufacturing back here without increasing the prices. I'm curious to see how I.E. Apple responds to this trend.

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

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Post by d_j_b »

Razengan wrote: post #128
d_j_b wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because the power management never quite works as it should

Neither does Windows' power management come close to the hours/work you can squeeze out of OS X on a Mac.

Fair point. I'd accept the trade-off if it meant I could use quote-unquote Linux instead of macOS.

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

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Post by colemickens »

csydas wrote: post #20
viach wrote: post #6

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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.

Are there any x86 laptops sold that are locked down without the ability to enroll user keys?

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

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Post by ewheeler »

klackerz wrote: post #26

The best thing about Xiaomi is that they support their products very well. Almost all of their phones get security updates each month. That is a rare thing in Android nowadays especially with Motorola announcing that they will stop updating their phones with the new security updates. [1] [1] http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/07/motorola-confirms-tha...

yes. my Xiaomi Mi4C gets an update every week. sometimes some minor regressions, but they're always fixed the next week. i certainly prefer that to the typical android software update cycle from most manufacturers/carriers

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

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Post by pestaa »

leaveyou wrote: post #121
pestaa wrote: post #48

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I have a Xiaomi Redmi 1S phone. It has not received any update of any kind in the last 3 years, it's still running on Android 4.3.

That's because you probably bought the phone from a re-seller who re-flashed a "custom global ROM" (compiled by who knows who) which does not receive OTA updates because it's not compatible with the official releases. This is what happened to me. After noticing that I don't get the updates for a while I started to investigate and I re-flashed one of the official ROMs from http://en.miui.com/download.html .

Thank you for the info! I'll have to try this.

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

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Post by smcl »

balladeer wrote: post #69
josteink wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> This looks like a good clone of Air, and I haven't seen Acer/Lenovo/Dell manage to do that yet. Clearly it's not a cheap product, but the Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 is razor thin, high powered, well built, and very good looking. Maybe I'm missing something?

You may be missing its price - $1142.10[1]. [1] http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/x-series/x1-ca...

They stated "Clearly it's not a cheap product"

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

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Post by RealGeek »

josteink wrote: post #35
puranjay wrote: post #8

People 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.

> This looks like a good clone of Air, and I haven't seen Acer/Lenovo/Dell manage to do that yet. Clearly it's not a cheap product, but the Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 is razor thin, high powered, well built, and very good looking. Maybe I'm missing something?

I have tried a bunch of Macbook Air competitors, but none of them have a trackpad as good as MacBook.

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

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Post by Const-me »

raihansaputra wrote: post #100
MichaelGG wrote: post #77

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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?

I was running OSX in VMWare every day for a couple of years, did iOS development. With 8 GB RAM and fast Intel SSD in my Windows laptop, the VM was faster then hardware MacBooks I saw. Modern hardware-assisted virtualization is very efficient, BTW that's exactly what allowed those cloud computing.
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