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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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I've been looking for a new laptop recently, but I can't seem to find a good. My primary concerns are: - not to have open it up and clean from dust. That's what all of my laptops, except Air, suffered from. They get dust inside and then get hot and loud. I move around a lot and it's inevitable. I don't want noise and I want as little heat as possible. - Multitouch Trackpad like on Macbook Air. It's wonderful! - Long…

Why are you looking for a MB Air-replacement when you want a MB Air?

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

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I've been looking for a new laptop recently, but I can't seem to find a good. My primary concerns are: - not to have open it up and clean from dust. That's what all of my laptops, except Air, suffered from. They get dust inside and then get hot and loud. I move around a lot and it's inevitable. I don't want noise and I want as little heat as possible. - Multitouch Trackpad like on Macbook Air. It's wonderful! - Long…

I have met several former Macbook owners who swear by their MS Surface Pro units. Usually the Pro 3, not a lot of talk with people with 2s or 4s yet.

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

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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…

Lenovo is a $56B company, and they are claiming it's infeasible to test a dozen phones against several versions of Android.

Yes, please feel free to take them to task over that.

But while you are doing so, please avoid misrepresentations as egregious as Motorola announcing that they will stop updating their phones with the new security updates. (and less egregious ones too).

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

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The T460p is a very good deal if you want something light, powerful and extensible for a very good price. You can get a version with a quad-core i7, dedicated Nvidia graphics card and 3k display for about 1400 USD. Combined with a three-year guarantee it's a very good deal I'd say, and much better than what most other manufacturers (including Dell and Apple) offer for this price. I also own an X1 Carbon, which is a g…

How's the heat on the T460p? Can you use it for light work without the keyboard heating up at all?

it heats up a bit under heavy load, but not more than my earlier Thinkpads.

The X1 Carbon is much cooler but also less powerful ;)

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

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

Windows power management is no where near as good as OSX, but that's always going to be an issue with horizontally integrated systems. However Windows PM is light years ahead of Linux.

In large part because the Linux devs have to keep patching around Windows-isms (useless ACPI tables for example), and outright bugs that the OEMs paper over with their drivers for Windows.

Frankly PC hardware is going through a drawn out second system period. First there was ACPI replacing APM, and now we have UEFI replacing the BIOS. In both case we have simple and straight forward systems that can hardly be implemented wrong being replaced with complex and convoluted systems where each implementation have its own quirks and gotchas.

On top of this we have the issue of most OEMs barely testing for Windows, and Microsoft is anything but good at getting their implementations right (Embrace, Extend, Extinguish anyone?).

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

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I've been looking for a new laptop recently, but I can't seem to find a good. My primary concerns are: - not to have open it up and clean from dust. That's what all of my laptops, except Air, suffered from. They get dust inside and then get hot and loud. I move around a lot and it's inevitable. I don't want noise and I want as little heat as possible. - Multitouch Trackpad like on Macbook Air. It's wonderful! - Long…

Is a high powered CPU, and the fastest, most dense storage really that high of a priority for a mobile device? Your target should be portability, and battery life. Not something easily achieved with your list of requirements. Nothing you listed sounds particularly resource intensive.

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

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Why does it need to be so thin? I don't really understand this fad of making every so thin that battery life suffers.

Not just thin, but also curving edges etc to amplify the appearance of thinness. These two combine to leave little internal space for actual hardware.

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

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Why does it need to be so thin? I don't really understand this fad of making every so thin that battery life suffers.

Not only battery life, I would really like for my laptops to not potentially start a fire because I decided to run something CPU intensive and some dust got into it.

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

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I've been looking for a new laptop recently, but I can't seem to find a good. My primary concerns are: - not to have open it up and clean from dust. That's what all of my laptops, except Air, suffered from. They get dust inside and then get hot and loud. I move around a lot and it's inevitable. I don't want noise and I want as little heat as possible. - Multitouch Trackpad like on Macbook Air. It's wonderful! - Long…

Why are you looking for a MB Air-replacement when you want a MB Air?

Not everyone like osx
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