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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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maxerickson wrote: post #183
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...

How did you go from However, because of the amount of testing and approvals that are necessary to deploy them, it's difficult to do this on a monthly basis for all our devices. It is often most efficient for us to bundle security updates in a scheduled Maintenance Release (MR) or OS upgrade. , which is a quote from Motorola, to Motorola announcing that they will stop updating their phones with the new security update…

Because anyone who has watched Motorola after their acquisition from Lenovo knows they will stop updating phones very quickly. In under a year in some cases.

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

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Post by hcal »

nailer wrote: post #167
FuNe wrote: post #165

Why windows? Won't that add to the price? Why not a linux "version" for 100$ less?

Linux (as in Linux/glibc/X/whatever) doesn't have a lot of native apps. Android though would rock.

Is that a troll? Linux has tons of native applications in just about every category. It is absolutely packed with alternatives. I don't use Linux daily anymore, but I almost never had an issue finding programs for what ever task I wanted to accomplish. More often then not the problem was a glut of choices.

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

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Post by Nullabillity »

looki wrote: post #157
Nullabillity wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Until you realize you want to connect a monitor or projector: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/Bumblebee/wiki/Multi-mo...

I've connected both of my Optimus-running ASUS laptops to projectors multiple times with no issues. But, as the article says, YMMV.

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

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Post by oldmanjay »

lorenzhs wrote: post #66
calgoo wrote: post #61

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I dont like the shape of it :) That triangular body (or trapezoid in this case?) is not pleasing to my eyes. It could also be that its just something to get used to, but still.

I don't want to spoil your fun but the Macbook Air's shape is even more pointed: http://as-images.apple.com/is/image/AppleInc/aos/published/i...

Do you assume anyone who doesn't like the look of any Windows device must be an apple fan?

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

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Post by keithpeter »

jonathankoren wrote: post #25
fit2rule wrote: post #11

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 ..

> If it gets full Linux support... I ran linux as my primary os for 10 years. This was never true for me. Something was always broken, or wonky. 10 years of platitudes about how "it will get better", but it didn't. There is always new hardware to support to various degrees. I got a mac, because I wanted to be able to listen to music and print at the same time. Also, I was tired of all my photos coming out pink.

What was stopping you from listening to music and printing at the same time? Never seen that one (USB mono laser printer/bog standard mp3 tracks to play).

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

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Post by nakedrobot2 »

RealGeek wrote: post #139
josteink wrote: post #35

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> 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.

I have bought/used a lot of high end ($2000+) windows notebooks: acer, asus, MSI. The trackpads all suck. Seriously, it is insane - macs had a working mouse in 1984!

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

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Post by DiabloD3 »

babuskov wrote: post #43
biot wrote: post #22

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Macbook Air... Notebook Air... I can definitely see that consumers might find the similarity confusing given that they're in the same category of goods and services.

Given how strong and prominent Apple logo is on their laptops, I don't think anyone would get confused about that.

Apple v. Samsung was over chromed rounded corners on phones; a series of cases in multiple countries, and this war between the two still isn't over.

So yeah, they've convinced multiple courts in multiple jurisdictions in multiple countries that yes, consumers are, paraphrased from their words, "pretty stupid and get confused easily."

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

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Post by hx87 »

mi_sucks wrote: post #182
kolinko wrote: post #122

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Downvoted for the speech style. "You're one of those online fanboys...". Read up on nonviolent communication, man!

I learned this from MIUI forum. if you spend sometime on miui forums, you might understand the language they use and the kind of treatment they give to posts which exposes the cheating they are doing in their service centers.

It does not give you license to do the same.

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

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Post by cptskippy »

post_break wrote: post #191
maxerickson wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you go from However, because of the amount of testing and approvals that are necessary to deploy them, it's difficult to do this on a monthly basis for all our devices. It is often most efficient for us to bundle security updates in a scheduled Maintenance Release (MR) or OS upgrade. , which is a quote from Motorola, to Motorola announcing that they will stop updating their phones with the new security update…

Because anyone who has watched Motorola after their acquisition from Lenovo knows they will stop updating phones very quickly. In under a year in some cases.

While I agree with you, it's still just speculation.

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

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Post by lqdc13 »

oblio wrote: post #96
xorcist wrote: post #33

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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.

Binary blobs provided by Nvidia are extremely unreliable. I've had to ssh to a machine because the graphics don't work at all after some kernel upgrades.

Linking to Theano-CUDA is always a nightmare.

Forget about optimus. That has never worked correctly on Linux.

The only reason I can see someone wanting nvidia on linux is for CUDA. And in that case, you can't just use the ubuntu pre-built version of the drivers.

If you are not doing neural nets locally on Linux, you shouldn't get a discrete graphics card. And if you do get a discrete one, make sure it's not Nvidia since their open source drivers are much inferior to AMD's.

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