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Just like its phones, tablets and set top boxes, leaked Xiaomi laptop looks exactly like an Apple MacBook Air

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Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Just like its phones, tablets and set top boxes, leaked Xiaomi laptop looks exactly like an Apple MacBook Air

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Xiaomi has definitely been growing fast in emerging markets, but until now the company has focused mostly on stealing as much of Samsung’s Chinese smartphone market share as it can. According to Gartner’s most recent numbers, the company rose in Q3 to take a spot in the world’s top 5 smartphone manufacturers. But the company has other products beyond just smartphones, and now it has apparently begun working on a new Mi-branded laptopâ€"and, to no one’s surprise, it looks just like a MacBook Air.

As you can see in the image above, everything from the black chiclet keys to the wedge-shaped sides are eerily similar to Apple’s line of thin laptops. The design of the back hinge, the device’s camera, trackpad, and the aluminum and black color scheme would confuse most if it weren’t for some obvious differences. The Xiaomi “Mi” logo is placed directly in the center of the screen’s bottom bezel, and it looks like the company decided to go with bright orange for the device’s keyboard power button as well.
All of this comes via Gizmochina, which claims to have a little insight on what kind of hardware this device will pack as well. The insides of the device will supposedly include an Intel Haswell i7-4500u processor, 2 x 8 GB dual channel memory, and a 15-inch 1080p display. As for software, it’s apparently going to run a version of Linux that has been customized by Xiaomi. It’s said to be starting at about half the price of a real MacBook Airâ€"somewhere in the range a little less than $500.
Here are a few more images of the device:
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Xiaomi announced today that it completed a round of $1.1 billion in funding, with the company now valued at around $45 billion total. Along with that announcement, the company says that its next flagship smartphone (which will likely be almost as much an iPhone copycat as this is a MacBook copycat) will be announced at some point this month.
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  1. Miroslav Mirek Bujna (@miroslavbujna) says: Buuuurn those copy-cats!!!! Maaaan even their copy looks ugly. They are not capable of even doing that right.
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  2. Bruno Fernandes (@Linkb8) says: How can anyone possibly say this looks like a Mac? There’s no orange button on a Mac.
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    • 311sie says: Because -other than the orange power button and “Mi” logo- it looks exactly like a MacBook Air.
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  3. TechPeeve (@TechPeeve) says: “Picasso had a saying â€" ‘good artists copy; great artists steal’ â€" and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.”
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    • aznair says: Neither Picasso nor Jobs were talking about stealing finished work, which is what these thieves have done and people like you who throw around that quote fail to understand. The idea is a thin ultraportable laptop computer and of course Apple was not the first to have that idea. What they did do was spend years executing and refining that idea, the result of which is being blatantly copied like this.
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    • 311sie says: Is there a point to this, or are we just doing random quotes?
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    • Dean (@deanishe) says: Although I suspect you’re totally misrepresenting what that quote means, there is a delicious irony in Samsung getting their arse kicked by a company that is even more brazen and shameless about copying Apple.
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    • WaveMedia (@WaveMedia) says: The meaning of that quote is that a good artist “copies” the essence of the subject, a great artist “steals” it and makes it their own. Think of a landscape. A good artist will accurately copy what they see, a great artist will steal the essence of it and turn it into something that inspires those who look at it (or at the very least, the person who created it). They put a bit of themselves into the work and create something beyond the original.
      That’s what Picasso did. That’s what Apple do.
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  4. thatsdb says: I’m tired of these so-called brilliant thieves copying our products and not having a single case brought against them.
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  5. Edison Wrzosek says: Never thought I’d say this, but forget Scamsung… These thieves have stooped to a whole new low, and are literally riding on Apple’s coattails, and getting away with it because they’re protected by the Chinese government, where corruption and theft is the norm…
    DISGUSTING!
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    • jamesesaldana says: We are where were at because people gave Samsung a pass. Now another company has stepped up with practical photocopies of Apple products. Good thing it can’t run OS X, thus remain second-rate.
      In any case, we all now know Samsung is no Apple. Just a bunch of cheap opportunists, like Xiaomi.
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  6. 311sie says: Would love to see how user friendly this “version of Linux that has been customized by Xiaomi” really is.
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  7. nekomichikun says: When confronted with accusations of design plagiarism, Xiaomi officially stated that “great minds think alike” and that how it was “just a coincidence”.
    I must have been a hell of a coincidence for their entire range of hardware and software interfaces to closely resemble the designs of the top market leaders’ products.
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    • 311sie says: Hey, Hugo (Barra) claims that both companies employ equally skilled industrial designers. Who are we to judge, right? :-D
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  8. Nicholas Marx (@NicholasMarx) says: Just one reason why the so called imminent dominance of China is WAY overblown. If you’re copying, you’re just following. If you’re following, you sure as hell aren’t leading…
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  9. markkwong says: Samsung has proved to the world shameless copying designs makes money, These guys go one step further
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  10. Configcrazy says: Reblogged this on Configcrazy.
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