Ultra Thin Macbook Air like Win 10 PC's

Looks pretty awesome actually for the price. Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi offers two versions, 13.3" and 12.5". The 13.3" actually comes with a Nvidia GT 940MX GPU with 1GB vRAM.

Specs:
13.3" 1080p (est. $850)
i5-6200U
Nvidia GT 940MX 1GB dedicated GPU!
8GB RAM, 256GB SSD
1xUSB C, 2x USB3.0, 1x HDMI, 1x 3.5mm audio port
14.5mm thick, 2.8 lbs
47WHr battery ~ 9hrs

12.5" 1080p (est. $625)
Core M3-6Y30
4GB RAM, 128GB SSD
1xUSB C, 1xUSB 3.0, 1x HDMI, 1x 3.5mm audio port
12.mm thick, 2.4 lbs
40 WHr battery ~ 9hrs

Apparently they are for pre-order here:
13.3" http://www.gearbest.com/laptops/pp_421980.html
12.5" http://www.gearbest.com/laptops/pp_425390.html

 

Will be interesting to see the actual real life battery life scenarios. I can get about 8 hours of real usage on my 13" macbook air right now.

 

Looks good, price is respectable too... Hopefully doesn't run too hot!

 

Apparently you'll be able to grab the 13" for about $750 and 12" for about $580US...

 

Even better price!!!

 

I just hope it's true. They look promising, but who knows.

 

Indeed, cross fingers!!!

 

Already discussed in the other notebooks forum.

John

 

Looks like these are shipping soon. Only available at gearbest at the moment that I can tell:
13.3" $925: http://www.gearbest.com/laptops/pp_421980.html
12" $595: http://www.gearbest.com/laptops/pp_425390.html

And it says it comes with "non activated Windows 10 version" for English unless you want Chinese version. Not sure what that means. So you may have to fork over another $100 for OEM Win10 license.

 

Well you can easily change the language in Windows so I don't see any need for a new license.

 

Are you getting one to review lol?

 

Is it that straight forward for Chinese version? Or is there more stuff embedded in the OS or stuff missing, etc?

 

Should be pretty much the same as other language versions, at least that's true for Traditional Chinese version, which I'm using atm. Some of my friends had Simplified Chinese version and there's almost no difference, the biggest difference is Cortana: SC has it while TC doesn't.

I can give a hand if you need help on changing the language

 

Cool, thanks. Not sure if I'm grabbing one yet or not, but will tag you if I do! Thanks for the offer.

 

Picked one up from Gearbest. $890 expedited shipping. Took about a week to get here. I also had to buy an English license for Windows 10 Home, so in all, about $1000.

Excellent machine. Great keyboard, great trackpad (maybe the best Windows one I've had... better than XPS 13, RBS). Thin, lightweight, solid performance with discrete graphics. Highly recommend it.

 

Honestly the 12.5" machine is a bit expensive for only having Skylake m3 .. For about $100 more you can get a Kaby i5 (m5) Lenovo Lenovo Yoga 11" from Best Buy. and it's WAYYYY faster.. and comes with 8gb ram.