Xiaomi’s first laptop is a Macbook Air rival

I do think that Xiaomi's new laptop will meet its first explosion after on sale for a week, like any other Chinese products. I also think that Xiaomi is just a counterfeit of Apple for only Chinese to enjoy. Frankly, I myself, is a Chinese. Yes I do live in Hong Kong. But I dislike Xiaomi because they are just thieves without creativity and inventive. Xiaomi used to be only a theme mod for Android, also known as MIUI. Gaining popularity and monetary only in China, they delivered their first phone that looked exactly like iPhones' with potentials for Chinese government installing backdoors. See Lenovo for examples. There is also reports Mi Red had suspicious internet activity that goes into servers centralized in Beijing with high amount of sensitive user data being sent. They also had produced drones that exploded in midair during a promotion stream. Fortunately no one is hit by that burning beast. They had bands that almost did nothing besides making your hand or wrist heated. And now, they want to make a forgery of Macbook. I cannot expect something well to happen. Besides 'shame', I cannot further describe Xiaomi, maybe also the entire IT ecosystem of China filled with pirated and fragile products. Sarcastically their CEO, when introducing their new, pioneer products, also goes the "Job's way". 'One last thing'. The black t-shirt and trousers. Every single bit they can rip from the Apple are exhausted. Due to the internet blockage of China, the Wall, Chinese never understand that their acts are harming the world, the intellectual properties. They only wait for their opponent to move, analyze it, make a replica for it, denying others to take action of it. This is the reason Chinese always go behind the world. This is the reason Japan can easily beat China. No it's not being passive, but someone who shamelessly ripping off the benefits others had diligently built. This is not the China I ever dreamed of. But we had to accept it, China are weak. And so she became a shut-in.

How is that best of both worlds? That sounds more like a Frankenstein to me.

Good on them, the more competition in the market the better both for the top and bottom end alternatives regardless of manufacturer or OS.

MI3 released in 2014

First real update(android update) it got was in July 2016 .

also, you cannot delete your i.mi.com account

you cannot delete the data once uploaded on i.mi.com ( so called MI cloud).

You can keep writing them emails and they will refuse to answer.

their service center is pathetic. ( not few, not in exception cases, but in all cases).

forget about security updates, you do not even have encryption option in MI phones.

phone->settings->security->encryption -- this option is absent from MI phones.

No MI phone can encrypt.

The worst part is their online fanboys on MIUI forum , and their forum rules, they actively delete the posts which show the cheating they do .

There are some bloggers who ALWAYS, ALWAYS, WIN the flash sales they do on their website, The SAME bloggers always get to "experience" their new phones first.

Now, the same bloggers post youtube reviews and fool the people.

So, A person FIRST knowledge of MI products comes from viewing online reviews, and those online reviews are written by bloggers who are moderators in their forum.

By the time the normal people realize it, they have sold a million phones already.

Their marshmallow phones ( only 3 ) do not have

-- doze -- back up to google servers

By MI devices at your own risk.

and see how pathetic and insecure is the website i.mi.com (mi cloud ) and BEWARE OF ONLINE TROLLS OF MI, they are everywhere.

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