It’s the price of the midrange Windows laptops, but the specs and build quality of the MacBooks.
The downside is Windows of course. But it is supposed to work pretty well under Linux.
"specs and build quality of the MacBooks"? Great, can we see that mythical laptop that is 3-4x cheaper than equivalently-specced MBP or not? Url?
Or is it just empty talk?
I think it’s more like 2.5 to 3 times cheaper than 3 to 4, but it’s pretty easy to find.
A$1400: https://www.lightinthebox.com/xiaomi-laptop-15-6-inch-intel-....
Vs
A$3500: https://www.apple.com/au/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MP... (with weaker CPU and GPU)
It also doesn’t come with OSX. Pretty sure you can find some other differences too.
I’m sure for some people the screen is a deal breaker. Others won’t care.
How so? It does not seem to have a single Thunderbolt 3 port. MBP has four of them. Instead, Xiaomi has a bunch of USB-whatever &c. That is not "better", that is strictly "worse" and cheaper.
> can we see that mythical laptop that is 3-4x cheaper than equivalently-specced MBP or not?
So, how is it even remotely equivalent?
I don’t think the resolution is interesting at all, but I agree some will.
For some people the great MPB trackpad is enough to sell it. Some people want the Xiaomi NVidia GPU. Some want retina screen, some want resolutions with better Linux support.
If you don’t like it don’t get it. But don’t nitpick to try to find some way they aren’t exactly the same: no one thinks that they are.
Nevertheless they are both high quality, i7, 16GB aluminium notebooks which suit developers.
E.g. http://www.techradar.com/reviews/xiaomi-mi-notebook-pro/2