What's the recommended way for US users to get Xiaomi devices?
a recommendation from my friend is http://www.gearbest.com/top-brands/brand/xiaomi.html
Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival
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As opposed to the Windows approach (unless you enjoy being stuck with preloaded malware, such as Superfish, McAfee, or Mac OS X): * WTF, why isn't my NIC registering? I thought we had a standard for this stuff by now. * Download NIC drivers from secondary computer * Put NIC drivers on a USB stick * Install NIC drivers * Nothing happened, turns out you found the drivers for the wrong revision of the chipset, go back t…
You are comparing a 7 year old version of Windows to a recent Linux release. Obviously Windows 7 will not have all the drivers.
Windows may have been released 7 years ago, but it gets updates pretty frequently. Windows 7 has had the ability to install drivers from Windows updates for a few years now.
The linux comparison isn't recent either. That was the exact same procedure I had to do on an nVidia-stricken laptop (thankfully not mine) four years ago.
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#433This quote from Jony Ive really made me feel for the guy: “When you’re doing something for the first time, you don’t know it’s going to work. You spend seven or eight years working on something, and then it’s copied. I have to be honest, the first thing I can think, all those weekends that I could have at home with my family but didn’t. I think it’s theft, and it’s lazy.” Xiaomi have done this to others. Their new ai…
Yeah and the poor guy is starving in the street right now. Give me a break.
Apple will just have to lower the greedy margins a bit.
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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.
> Windows PM is light years ahead of Linux.
I get the feeling you're speaking from your own experience. In the same vein: my experience has been the opposite. But then again, I'm speaking from experience on a ThinkPad X250 with Arch Linux and tlp vs. ThinkPad X250 with Windows 10 (upgraded from Windows 7).
If my experience had been with poorer hardware that don't stick to standards, I'd probably have a similar (though far less extreme) view as yours.
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#435If 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 ..
You will soon come back after you realize how badly broken any other combination of hardware and software is.
> any other combination of hardware and software is
The ThinkPad X250 I'm using right now with Linux would disagree. The Sony Vaio I had in 2010 and put Linux on would disagree. The Dell Inspiron I had last year would fit the description of "broken" but not "badly broken".
Are there poor pairings of hardware and software outside the Apple garden? Sure. Does that mean everything outside Apple's garden is poor?
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#436Looks awesome, but the OS... There really is a huge market gap for a third, non-tech-savvy friendly OS.
Android?
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We're talking about the Jony Ive who designs rectangles? Meh. Him and Apple have stolen plenty! Isn't Steve Jobs famously quoted as saying "great artists steal"? Anyway, what's the fucking difference if you steal a few pieces here and there or the whole thing? Nothing. (EDIT: A piece of something is still a whole piece that you've stolen. And Apple has also stolen entire apps, like Konfabulator. They get no sympathy…
"good artists copy, great artists steal" This quote is meant to make you think about the differences between stealing and copying ideas. It isn't literal. It doesn't even make sense literally. Stealing means you make it yours. It is no longer theirs. How do you do that with an idea? You make it so much better that people forget about the previous idea you took.
I really this interpretation. Made me look at it in a whole new way.
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You will soon come back after you realize how badly broken any other combination of hardware and software is.
> any other combination of hardware and software is The ThinkPad X250 I'm using right now with Linux would disagree. The Sony Vaio I had in 2010 and put Linux on would disagree. The Dell Inspiron I had last year would fit the description of "broken" but not "badly broken". Are there poor pairings of hardware and software outside the Apple garden? Sure. Does that mean everything outside Apple's garden is poor?
I concur. No true Linux user gets stumped by these things.
For my part, I've had perfect, smoothly-running Linux workstations for decades now, and for me its a no-brainer to select hardware for the purpose of running Linux. Like I said, if this has decent Linux support, I'll switch from Apple in a moments' notice. Linux can do just as well, if not better, than OSX for many, many things ..
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Best of luck with it all. 13 years is some staying power!
After 10 years of linux, I got a mac 12 years ago, and never looked back. It's unix in all the ways I want, and none of the ways I don't. Sysdamining is not my favorite thing.
I have a Linux DAW and two Linux Dev workstations that don't need much "sysadmin'ing" beyond the normal update maintenance schedule, so I dunno .. I think the beauty of Linux is that it allows for your end of the extreme, and mine, and doesn't just force everyone into a pissed-in sandbox, like OSX.