Xiaomi has finally launched the Macbook Pro Killer
of my dreams.
The laptop, called the Mi Notebook Air, actually
runs on Windows 10 as reported in the article “Xiaomi's
first laptop is the $750 Mi Notebook Air”, published 07.27.16 by Richard
Lai, Engadget.
The US$750 Laptop, which looks surprisingly a lot
like the Apple Macbook Pro, costs far less at US$750 and is set to launch in
China on Tuesday August 2nd 2016. It comes in two (2) screen
variants, 13.3" and 12.5" and is sold in two (2) colours:
1. Gold
2. Silver
So aside from colour, how else do they differ?
Xiaomi
Mi Notebook Air - Apple Macbook Pro running Windows 10
Both are 1080p deals with a backlit keyboard, making
this a typists and gamer's dream machine as pointed out in the article “Xiaomi's $750
laptop is like a MacBook Air with gaming hardware inside”, published July
27, 2016 by Aloysius Low, CNET News.
However, they differ in specs under the hood and is
quite close and copies heavily from the Macbook Pro as opined in my blog article
entitled “How
Xiaomi's US$200 Mi Notebook is a Linux Ubuntu Laptop for Christmas 2016”.
The 13.3” variant, which costs US$750, is 14.8mm
thick and weight in at 1.28kg. It has a dual core Intel Core i5-6200U
“Skylake-U” processor that clock at 2.3GHz and goes up to 2.7GHz in turbo mode.
It also has an NVIDIA GeForce 940MX GPU with 1GB
GDDR5 RAM but you can upgrade to an 8GB of DDR4 RAM and a 256GB of SSD via PCIe
plus a free SATA slot for expansion. There is also two (2) USB 3.0 ports with a
USB Type-C charging port that can recharge the 40N battery from zero to 50% in
30 minutes, giving you 9.5 hours of untethered freedom.
The 12.5” variant, which costs US$520 is 12.9mm
thick and weighs in at 1.07kg, making it lighter and thinner than its 13.3”
counterpart. It’s powered by an Intel Core M3 CPU, and allows Windows 10 to run
on 4GB of RAM and 128GB SSD via SATA. You only get 1 USB 3.0 port and one HDMI
port, which translate to 11.5 hrs of battery life.
Still disappointed that Xiaomi didn't do a custom
Linux machine that could work with Microsoft files, but that may have been a
bit risky for them. I'm hoping they launch something to satisfy the Linux
Community, as the value brand needs to make a product that appeal to the
masses, especially as laptop sales are falling!
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