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

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Post by blahi »

nakedrobot2 wrote: post #196
RealGeek wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

You bought all the junk. Thinkpads and expensive Dells and HPs are good. So is the surface book. The brands you listed are good at making low quality laptops. Their high end sucks. Lenovo's high end is top-notch and their low end is not as good as Acer's for example.

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

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Post by Keyframe »

ksk wrote: post #241
Keyframe wrote: post #229

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?

Because I have an Air, albeit an older model and I want to get a new laptop. Buying a new Air doesn't make sense since it's outdated a bit and doesn't fit most of what I want.

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

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Post by Keyframe »

naspinski wrote: post #233
Keyframe wrote: post #229

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…

Razerblade Stealth? http://www.theultimateultrabook.com/

This looks interesting. I'll have to check out battery life.

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

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Post by razed_in_blecch »

naspinski wrote: post #233
Keyframe wrote: post #229

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…

Razerblade Stealth? http://www.theultimateultrabook.com/

Terrible suggestion. Razer's products do not remotely meet the fit and finish of Apple's products.

I'm typing on a Razer Blade Stealth right now that I've had since February and it is already falling apart, with most of the screws on the bottom plate falling off and a trackpad that constantly sticks. The fans buzz and brush against their metal grills often enough that you have to gently slap the side of the laptop to make it stop. I've also had its USB-C charger literally fall apart when the USB-C connector came off, which then had to be replaced in its entirety. The 2015 MacBook charger at least let you swap the cable, which was a lot more sane since it appears USB-C is fragile.

After 10~ years of owning Apple laptops, this was a rude awakening of how bad it can be not buying one. I'm hoping moving to a Thinkpad next will not be a similar disaster.

This is all ignoring the insanely bad support from the Razer Web store, which was probably the worst ordering experience I've ever had. Their support is so infamously bad, that even the fans on /r/razer usually defending the company beyond any sense of proportion will admit it is bad.

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

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Post by burnitdown »

sievebrain wrote: post #58
Fuxy wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Acer/Lenovo/Dell can't risk getting sued by Apple. Xiaomi is a Chinese company they don't care since if they ever do get sued the Chinese court will always side with the Chinese company. The again if the clone works just as well as the original I don't really care but this would have been a really good chance to copy and improve.

Lenovo is also a Chinese company, no? And Acer is Taiwanese.

If you do business together in a country, you have to follow the laws of that country. Xiaomi does no "official" business here and there is nothing for apple to sue.

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

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Post by Keyframe »

6stringmerc wrote: post #242
Keyframe wrote: post #229

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.

Definitely considering one, but I have yet to see one in person :/

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

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Post by dpark »

zdkl wrote: post #216
soylentcola wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't typically buy ultra-think notebooks (or really many notebooks in general) but I've had good experiences with Asus if you want that "85% of a MacBook quality for 50% of the price" thing. Last laptop I bought was due to needing something for occasional DJ and projection graphics projects. Since it needed to be mobile, even a small form factor desktop build was not really feasible so I went looking for the best…

On some of the models you're describing the motherboard is soldered to the chassis, that makes changing the HDD a bit perileous. Apart from that point I echo the sentiment. These are (were?) great little laptops for the price point/form factor

> On some of the models you're describing the motherboard is soldered to the chassis

Ew. What purpose does that serve?

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

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Post by ksk »

Keyframe wrote: post #252
ksk wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Because I have an Air, albeit an older model and I want to get a new laptop. Buying a new Air doesn't make sense since it's outdated a bit and doesn't fit most of what I want.

>Buying a new Air doesn't make sense since it's outdated a bit and doesn't fit most of what I want.

Um, this is what _you_ said -- "Currently, only Air fits the bill, but it's getting old."

Sorry, I still have no idea why are you're looking for a MB air replacement instead of upgrading to a newer model.

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

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Post by squeaky-clean »

nailer wrote: post #224
hcal wrote: post #192

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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.

> Linux has tons of native applications in just about every category. Cool. Where's Word, Tinder, Instagram, Google Maps, Google Mail, Outlook and WhatsApp? I think there's a Linux Spotify, so you've got that. I love Linux (I'm ex Red Hat and IBM's Linux team) but Linux (as mentioned, Linux/glibc/X/whatever) lacks apps. > Is that a troll? Seriously?

> Cool. Where's Word, Tinder, Instagram, Google Maps, Google Mail, Outlook and WhatsApp?

Where are any of these apps on Windows or OSX? Word is the only one with a native app, the rest are either mobile only, or browser based.

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

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Post by IshKebab »

Nullabillity wrote: post #93
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.

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

That's actually stupidly hard. Why do you need to do anything at all?
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