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Xiaomi Surprises With MacBook Lookalike 'Mi Notebook Air'
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Pretty good laptop for the price. I use iPhone but for a laptop, Windows OEMs offer much better specs at a lower price.
Apple seems to be obsessed with minimalism offering very limited ports.
Apple seems to be obsessed with minimalism offering very limited ports.
Well apart from small glimpses here and there.... others weren't innovating that much to begin with.... it was pretty much "let's follow what Apple is doing" for at least the last decade and a half!
So they copied including a keyboard and screen and trackpad and aluminum?
Appalling.
If they really were copying Apple it wouldn't have all those industry standard ports and would have removed the entire battery if necessary to make it 1mm thinner than the last one.
Put a hackintosh there and you'll have a cheap and decent Mac.
Xiaomi: The new Xerox.
They are taking the copycat crown from Samsung.
I wonder if their products are good quality or just another nice looking piece of junk.
They are taking the copycat crown from Samsung.
I wonder if their products are good quality or just another nice looking piece of junk.
Have to say it does look good like 2 beautiful laptops that have specs and great design. Yes they obviously resemble the MB line, in ALL form and fashion aesthetically, but compare differently where it counts, options and available feature sets.
Apple has limited it's own potential growth in this market segment by only offering the variants with the M series processor. Yes, they are staying as light and as small as possible, but to what detriment?
By having a slightly heavier build, this series can ALSO, and "in addition to," the smallest, lightest version with core M processing, offer consumers the choice of a more powerful option with extra usability ports and options, at the expense of more weight as well mind you, for those that wish for these features and accessibility options. This serves both needs of the 2 different market segments.
I think Apple can take away from this, and merge the MBAir line and the MB line and as such offer a 12", 13", and 14" MB version in this lineup with all Retina display. The three laptop sizes can use the same footprint now as the two MBAir models (remove the bezels) and the current MB model (as is), and offer configurations ranging from ultraportable core M processors to possibly quad i7 (dual i7) minimum with 8-16 RAM and variable PCIE SSD options to 1TB as size constraints permit, while ALL using the new MB model design casing and slim chassis and build profile.
The smaller of the two new models (12" new MB model that would replace the current 11" MBAir) would be similar to the current 12" MB model and offer core M chips with adequate RAM (8GB), good storage, and great battery. This replaces the MBAir with a current build of the 12" MB model with upgraded internals, new body design and chassis, and Retina display. The 12" MB (as now designed) gets upgraded internals, full size processor chips (i5 and i7 - in dual and quad variants) in a new 13" form factor by removing/reducing be bezels. The current MB design lends itself to the new 13" and 14" designs. The new 14" model will replace the MBAir 13" as is now with a MB designed chassis, 14" Retina display, quad i5 & i7 CPU architecture, 1TB+ PCIE SSD and RAM options to 16 GB (if size constraints permit).
This would allow the MB design to extend to provide more options and make more feature sets available to those people who need them, while also maintaining a small and lightweight, ultraportable MB model as the lineup does now. This move only HELPS Apple by selling more computers. This merge also allows the low yield 11" MBAir to get a bump to 12" and a Retina display, along with all upgraded internals and a new chassis design. Allows the current 12" MB to get a 13" display along with appropriate upgraded internals in memory, storage, and processor architecture, while keeping the slim and ultraportable form factor of the current MB lineup. And the current 13" MBAir would be upgraded to a 14" MB themed design chassis and structure, with Retina display, dual/quad i5 & i7 processors, 8-16GB RAM, and up to 2TB PCIE SSD storage onboard, while maintaining the ultraportable design of the current MB lineup.
This gets rid of the aging MBAir lineup while NOT just killing it off, provides expansion and upgrade opportunities for improving the current version of the 12" MB beyond a single computer in 1 shape/size in the entire range, and brings a level and feeling of similarity and ease of understanding the lineup back to the laptop line. All laptop models and configuration will also all have super efficient chips and longevity optimization software built in to the hardware to ensure that 10-15 hours of battery (minimum) is achieved across the laptop lineup.
This also opens the door for Apple to upgrade the MBPro lineup as well by introducing new sizes of 14" and 16" in the same size format they are using now in the 13" and 15" models by reducing the bezels. Of course, internals will also be updated and upgraded as well as making changes to the design phase of the build to make chassis changes as needed.
OK - My rant has now Ended!!
THIS is what I would love to see from Apple in the future. I have faith in Apple so I guess we will all see what's what very soon, whether they agree with my vision or their own lol.
Thanks for reading.
Best,
USVet96
Apple has limited it's own potential growth in this market segment by only offering the variants with the M series processor. Yes, they are staying as light and as small as possible, but to what detriment?
By having a slightly heavier build, this series can ALSO, and "in addition to," the smallest, lightest version with core M processing, offer consumers the choice of a more powerful option with extra usability ports and options, at the expense of more weight as well mind you, for those that wish for these features and accessibility options. This serves both needs of the 2 different market segments.
I think Apple can take away from this, and merge the MBAir line and the MB line and as such offer a 12", 13", and 14" MB version in this lineup with all Retina display. The three laptop sizes can use the same footprint now as the two MBAir models (remove the bezels) and the current MB model (as is), and offer configurations ranging from ultraportable core M processors to possibly quad i7 (dual i7) minimum with 8-16 RAM and variable PCIE SSD options to 1TB as size constraints permit, while ALL using the new MB model design casing and slim chassis and build profile.
The smaller of the two new models (12" new MB model that would replace the current 11" MBAir) would be similar to the current 12" MB model and offer core M chips with adequate RAM (8GB), good storage, and great battery. This replaces the MBAir with a current build of the 12" MB model with upgraded internals, new body design and chassis, and Retina display. The 12" MB (as now designed) gets upgraded internals, full size processor chips (i5 and i7 - in dual and quad variants) in a new 13" form factor by removing/reducing be bezels. The current MB design lends itself to the new 13" and 14" designs. The new 14" model will replace the MBAir 13" as is now with a MB designed chassis, 14" Retina display, quad i5 & i7 CPU architecture, 1TB+ PCIE SSD and RAM options to 16 GB (if size constraints permit).
This would allow the MB design to extend to provide more options and make more feature sets available to those people who need them, while also maintaining a small and lightweight, ultraportable MB model as the lineup does now. This move only HELPS Apple by selling more computers. This merge also allows the low yield 11" MBAir to get a bump to 12" and a Retina display, along with all upgraded internals and a new chassis design. Allows the current 12" MB to get a 13" display along with appropriate upgraded internals in memory, storage, and processor architecture, while keeping the slim and ultraportable form factor of the current MB lineup. And the current 13" MBAir would be upgraded to a 14" MB themed design chassis and structure, with Retina display, dual/quad i5 & i7 processors, 8-16GB RAM, and up to 2TB PCIE SSD storage onboard, while maintaining the ultraportable design of the current MB lineup.
This gets rid of the aging MBAir lineup while NOT just killing it off, provides expansion and upgrade opportunities for improving the current version of the 12" MB beyond a single computer in 1 shape/size in the entire range, and brings a level and feeling of similarity and ease of understanding the lineup back to the laptop line. All laptop models and configuration will also all have super efficient chips and longevity optimization software built in to the hardware to ensure that 10-15 hours of battery (minimum) is achieved across the laptop lineup.
This also opens the door for Apple to upgrade the MBPro lineup as well by introducing new sizes of 14" and 16" in the same size format they are using now in the 13" and 15" models by reducing the bezels. Of course, internals will also be updated and upgraded as well as making changes to the design phase of the build to make chassis changes as needed.
OK - My rant has now Ended!!
THIS is what I would love to see from Apple in the future. I have faith in Apple so I guess we will all see what's what very soon, whether they agree with my vision or their own lol.
Thanks for reading.
Best,
USVet96
We have no Chinese forum members who could arrange a group buy for us?
MacBook batteries are great. Stop stretching.
And they only have industry standard ports.
The best OS? That's easy. It's the one you like to use, be it Windows or OSX. Like ppcebay, I like and use both. To argue one is definitively better than the other ignores use case for the individual.
On topic: I find it funny that, to me, Xiaomi just out Apple'd Apple. By that I mean, they took the basic premise of the MB and totally improved the practicality of it. Apple usually lets others jump in with both feet. Then they follow up with a more developed idea. This time it's Xiaomi watching Apple take the leap with the MB and following up with a more developed idea.
True that, but one has to consider ....Drivers..... Viruses..... crashes, and at the end of the day those are a problem (even if minor nowadays) on one platform and no issue on the other...
I prefere an os that has fewer issue
.....and it could have been Linux if only the right software for it was avaiable.Of course it is. Mac OS has not seen any updates for almost a decade and a half.
You must be using a different version of OSX than me.
I've never experienced a version of any OS that didn't have issues. Maybe you're "misremembering" a little bit. As far as drivers and crashes go... you lost me there bro. Malware, I'd agree with you there. Although anecdotally, I haven't had any malware on my PC's in about 10 years.
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They're OK -- not much for the light silver keys. Had a laptop with those before my MBP, and in daylight lighting levels, they're hard to make out -- even when backlit. OK in darker lighting though, otherwise annoying -- like when one of the shift keys is too small so they can squeeze in a numberpad
I kind of love how there is absolutely no logo on that unit.
can anyone tell me what could be the point of releasing two almost identical but differently sized laptops with just 0.8" difference in screen diagonal? or there's someone on this earth whose bag can handle 12.9" laptops but not others with 13.3" screen size?
btw, the photos in post show devices that are in par with MBP thickness, or even thicker.
btw, the photos in post show devices that are in par with MBP thickness, or even thicker.
I wish Apple was capable of making a laptop like that. But Ive's death feud against I/O ports won't allow it. Then Tim would add a $1000 "Apple tax" to it.