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Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air release date: Xiaomi unveils MacBook Air rival

Thanks to a new leaked patent, spotted by Patently Apple, shows off a new potential design for the stylus which can make it work with the Magic Trackpad and an iMac, maybe even the trackpad on a MacBook laptop.

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Lenovo has finally given a magnificent reply to the likes of Mi Notebook Air and the 12-inch MacBook with its new ultraportable laptop. The price of the two (at least during Lenovo’s pre-order period) is the same: RMB 4,999, or roughly $750. Looking through their physical characteristics, all three were admirable sans their respective brands. However, practically, consumers got an affordable Windows-based alternative to the Apple MacBook Air through Xiaomi.

Powering the same is a 46Wh which looks bigger as compared to the 40Wh unit on the Mi Notebook Air.

Moreover, it has also been reported that Apple will be launching the new series with seventh generation Intel Kaby Lake processors.

In China, the device will be available for purchase from August 2nd through Mi Home brick & mortar and online stores.

According to BGR, Apple’s 12-inch MacBook laptop released previous year was the industry’s first PC to ship with a USB-C port, which is the only connector the laptop has, aside from the headphone jack. According to many reports, Xiaomi will release the device in the United States and other parts of the world. Maybe Mi Cloud can be a point of revenue with its cloud storage feature, but not surely so far. When it comes down to the display and storage, the device has a 13.3-inch IPS full-HD display and a 265 GB SSD.

The product unveiled by Xiaomi isn’t quite as original the company’s recently unveiled drone or hoverboard, but it certainly has one element most of the rival ultraportable notebooks lack, i.e. Nvidia GeForce 940MX graphics card.

The Mi Notebook Air will be packed with highly competitve specs including a weight of less than 1.5 kg, an exact resemblance in every comparison with the Apple’s MacBook Air, though 13 percent thinner at 14.8mm, and ultra thin bezel. And we think its stock price has almost unlimited room to run for early in-the-know investors!

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Ashraf Eassa owns shares of Intel. The Motley Fool has the following options: long January 2018 $90 calls on Apple and short January 2018 $95 calls on Apple. Try any of our Foolish newsletter services free for 30 days. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.

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