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Xiaomi Takes Aim at Apple With New MacBook Pro and iPhone X Rivals
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That's great news! I was thinking of getting the Mi Notebook Air to run Linux but didn't like that it was 13" and 8GB RAM only. The Pro looks great on paper!
Man, that phone looks gorgeous in the promo material.
*goes to look at actual photos of phone*
Man, that promo photo doesn't look anything like the real thing.
*goes to look at actual photos of phone*
Man, that promo photo doesn't look anything like the real thing.
This is how they afford to sell at a lower cost than their competitors, they don't invest in rNd, they wait for others to do so, and then just rip off designs and other features. Apple can't do anything about it.
Windows went downhill for me with Windows 8. I now actively seek to avoid using it all.
ONLY 16GB OF RAM?! WHAT AS FAILURE!
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Samsung tried that a couple times and their release was quickly overshadowed by the iPhone announcement the following day. Even if it were a total lackluster release, it would still overshadow the rival release with angry headlines.
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Samsung tried that a couple times and their release was quickly overshadowed by the iPhone announcement the following day. Even if it were a total lackluster release, it would still overshadow the rival release with angry headlines.
I agree 7 was perfectly stable and simple.
8.1 and 10 are faster...
my 8.1 machine booted from cold in 11 seconds.
If you read the linked article, the MiPC has two USB-A, two USB-C, full-size HDMI, and an SD card slot - exactly the sort of thing that people are complaining that was dropped from the MBP.
Not that this system is realistically comparable with the 15" MBP - apart from the lack or retina/4k screen, the article doesn't give much details about the processors ("i5" or "i7" is meaningless without model numbers/clock speeds/number of cores) or the GPU performance, or the SSD type so I suspect that they're not in the same league as the 15" MBP.
However, the problem with Apple is the lack of choice: Want 15" laptop because you are doing a lot of WP with multiple documents, or spreadsheets? You need: a $1000 MacBook Air with a 15" screen. Apple offer you: a $2000 quad i7 with discrete GPU and 60 Gbps of Thunderbolt bandwidth that you'll never use. If you can live with Windows (and 90% of computer users seem to muddle through) then you can get hardware that is far, far closer to your needs.
As the linked article points out - the Xiaomi is thicker than the MBP.
The obvious physical limitation was that Apple insisted on making the 2016 MBP even thinner than the 2015 rMBP - which was already pretty sleek - so it is now too thin to accommodate full-sized USB-A, HDMI or MiniDP/TB2 sockets. There may be less obvious issues with available PCIe lanes (which may have to be traded off against extra USB ports) if they were set on having 4x TB3 ports.
Windows 8 and beyond seems unintuitive to me. Not only were there issues with NIC card drivers that completely screwed my PC that passed the Windows 10 upgrade scan, they keep burying things that I commonly access, like some control panel items for no apparent gain whatsoever. The operating systems seems to make it a choir to interface with it just to use the computer and launch apps. Frankly, Windows pushed me to MacOS; it wasn't that MacOS won me over on its own.
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And, Apple ripped off the Sony VAIO from eight years prior. To smart consumers both Apple and Xiaomi are Chinese made rip offs but one is way overpriced that lack ports and has gimmicky downgrades like emoji bar. Competition is good otherwise the iPhone would still be 3.5".
Wow! They are ripping off of Apple's design but sadly doing a slightly better job at it. So MANY PORTS!
If I ever found myself at a job that required Windows computers (more than just the OS virtualized) then I may be tempted to get this laptop.
p.s. never mind. That screen is a deal breaker.
If I ever found myself at a job that required Windows computers (more than just the OS virtualized) then I may be tempted to get this laptop.
p.s. never mind. That screen is a deal breaker.
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It still runs crappy Windows. If Microsoft ever adopts Apple's human-interface standards, then maybe we'll have something to worry about.
I found this interesting
https://9to5mac.com/2014/09/17/ipho...duction-lines-200k-workers-540k-phones-a-day/
https://9to5mac.com/2014/09/17/ipho...duction-lines-200k-workers-540k-phones-a-day/
Despite copying a lot of designs from Apple, at least Xiaomi is actually trying to do something of its own like the Mi Mix.
Go look at Oppo or Vivo. They are just blatant iPhone photocopier on pretty much all of their phones, and they don't een try to do anything different. Worse, they are actually selling their stuff at higher prices than Xiaomi. Go figure.
Go look at Oppo or Vivo. They are just blatant iPhone photocopier on pretty much all of their phones, and they don't een try to do anything different. Worse, they are actually selling their stuff at higher prices than Xiaomi. Go figure.