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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 im_dario »

I don't trust their battery run-times. I was looking for a laptop and finally settled down for a Lenovo Thinkpad 13.

Thinkpad's battery is 42 Wh with a wifi surfing run-time of almost 7 hours [0], although it being sold as a 11 hours run-time. It hasn't a dedicated graphics chip.

Xiaomi's battery is 40 Wh and it sports dedicated graphics. Macbook Air's battery is 58 Wh and it has integrated graphics, lasting around 10 hours [1].

Assuming a similar consumption, Xiaomi's would last less than 7 hours for surfing. But it has dedicated graphics (NVidia 940M) with a consumption (30W) that doubles integrated options (Intel HD in Lenovo and Apple laptops). So, probably it will last 5 or 6 hours of just wifi surfing, even less.

[0] http://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-13-Ultrabook-Re...

[1] http://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Air-13-2015-Noteb...

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

#42

Post by danpalmer »

zapu wrote: post #31
joebergeron wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A laptop that's pleasing to the eyes.

Is this: http://spadkobiercy.nazwa.pl/XPS13/7.jpg seriously not pleasing?

Not particularly. There are still lots of "bits" to it - colours, materials, vents, contours, etc. So few companies actually get rid of them, but it looks so much better when they do.

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

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Post by babuskov »

biot wrote: post #22
forwhat wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

for what should be sued? Squares with lightly round edges? Oh, using "Air" in a notebook's name to suggest that it's very light :).

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.

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

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Post by riffraff »

forwhat wrote: post #7
tuananh wrote: post #2

How can Xiaomi is not sued yet?

for what should be sued? Squares with lightly round edges? Oh, using "Air" in a notebook's name to suggest that it's very light :).

> Squares with lightly round edges?

to be fair, that is what Apple sued Samsung for, and it won :(

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

#45

Post by [deleted] »

personjerry wrote: post #16
merb wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

In my experience nvidia has always been much easier to install than amd (fglrx).

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

#46

Post by aembleton »

xbeta wrote: post #10

After using few Xiaomi products, no thanks. If I want a Linux dev box, there are other options too.

What's wrong with them?

I'm very happy with my Xiaomi piston earbuds, good sound quality, survived 1 year of use so far and only ~£10.

I've had one of their phones a few years ago and found it to work well. Just annoying that they'd skinned Android rather than providing stock.

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

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Post by pestaa »

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...

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.

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

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Post by nojderle »

im_dario wrote: post #41

I don't trust their battery run-times. I was looking for a laptop and finally settled down for a Lenovo Thinkpad 13. Thinkpad's battery is 42 Wh with a wifi surfing run-time of almost 7 hours [0], although it being sold as a 11 hours run-time. It hasn't a dedicated graphics chip. Xiaomi's battery is 40 Wh and it sports dedicated graphics. Macbook Air's battery is 58 Wh and it has integrated graphics, lasting around 1…

I don't know anything about electrical engineering, but could it be possible to optimise that ?

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

#50

Post by Fuxy »

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.

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.

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