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

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Post by webtechgal »

vacri wrote: post #130
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.

Well, if we're talking copies, then Airs are just a scaled-up version of the eeepc - same 'sharp wedge' shape (that is apparently why Lenovo X1s are being called clones of Airs). The eeepc was the thing that proved there was enough interest for a low-power-but-mobile computer, which ended up turning into the tablet market. Crappy build quality, but people went berserk for them.

> ...but people went berserk for them (eeepc).

And how!!! My ex-boss read the press announcement on a flight (sometime in 2011?) and went gung ho. On coming back, he got me to inquire with our regular/local hardware vendors. Turned out nobody (in our small city) had even heard of it, so the inquiry was escalated to the largest city of our state. Still nothing. Finally, he actually got a staffer to fly to Mumbai and get him a piece.

Within the next few weeks, he bought not less than 7 more, to gift them away to family and friends!! Yes, berserk is right. :-)

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

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Post by JBReefer »

ForFreedom wrote: post #101

I dont understand why everyone is comparing their products to the Mac/iPhone and then they say "cheap" as $xxx. You cant compare a KIA to Bugatti and say cheap as $xxx. The point is create a product people speak about and has a value

But a Kia is a great car these days. Dollar for dollar, I'd rather buy a Kia with my money than a Bugatti, just like I'm not willing to shell out for a MacBook, but might buy this laptop.

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Post by IE6 »

eloycoto wrote: post #9
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.

Ubuntu and batteries are not good friends :-( I tried few times and still using apple

This is my gripe, unless you spend hours customizing each laptop ubuntu makes a 10 hour battery life shrink to around 2 hours with only the default 'power saving' features turned on.

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

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Post by beagle3 »

josteink wrote: post #131
scotu wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 th…

No, it's not only if you use the factory OS image: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/12/lenovo_firmware_nast... - it is, indeed, only if you use Windows for now. But there was a time where pressing the "restore" key on the IdeaPad (yes, there was one, that starts a windows restore) would bork a Linux install.

ThinkPad hardware is OK, but it's very hard to trust Lenovo with anything these days. A good summary I found while looking for the above link is http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/now-three-pre-installed-malware...

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

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Post by kyriakos »

kccqzy wrote: post #154
teekert wrote: post #133

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 f…

Interesting. I also had a Xiaomi battery pack but after a few months of (irregular) use the outer shell started discolouring and the adhesives gradually became weaker, so much so that you can peel off the plastic at the bottom and top. Yes they are ready to take over large segments of the market but not yet the high end segment.

There is actually counterfeit xiaomi battery packs. There's a great chance you got one of those. The one I have took a lot of abuse and travel and still looks new

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Post by dorfsmay »

MichaelGG wrote: post #74
scotu wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Unfortunately, nothing comes close to ThinkPads. I dislike Lenovo a lot and would ditch them at first chance. No vendor wants to be that chance though. (Proper keyboard, 3-physical-button pad/point, not too hot, etc.) I'm not too concerned about Superfish - that was only the consumer junk, right? The BIOS-Windows-auto-install stuff was more concerning. But hey, little choices. Lenovo is certainly incompetent - look a…

I'm in the same boat. Additionally there is a huge immunity of people running Linux on the thinkpads which make it easier to pick the right components when buying, and sovle and find work around when you do hit a problem.

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

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Post by kyriakos »

ForFreedom wrote: post #101

I dont understand why everyone is comparing their products to the Mac/iPhone and then they say "cheap" as $xxx. You cant compare a KIA to Bugatti and say cheap as $xxx. The point is create a product people speak about and has a value

Macbooks are not Bugattis though.

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

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Post by mi_sucks »

snemvalts wrote: post #98
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... .

http://en.miui.com/thread-40877-1-1.html

http://en.miui.com/thread-29306-1-1.html

a google search on MI3 encryption

will help you out

and their customer care sucks when you ask them

I have been using MI phoneS for more than 2 years Now

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