{"id":173734,"date":"2016-07-27T17:17:28","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=173734"},"modified":"2016-07-27T17:19:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T15:19:25","slug":"xiaomi-launches-apple-macbook-competitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/173734-xiaomi-launches-apple-macbook-competitor.html","title":{"rendered":"Xiaomi launches Apple MacBook competitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Xiaomi has entered the laptop market, unveiling its\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mi.com\/mibookair\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mi Notebook Air<\/strong><\/a> on 27 July.<\/p>\n<p>The Windows laptop comes in gold or silver, and is set to compete against the Apple MacBook, stated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/circuitbreaker\/2016\/7\/27\/12294530\/xiaomi-mi-notebook-air-macbook-competitor\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>The Verge<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is available as a\u00a013.3-inch\u00a0or 12.5-inch model, with the former packing more powerful hardware.<\/p>\n<p>The 13.3-inch features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intel Core i5 CPU<\/li>\n<li>256GB SSD<\/li>\n<li>Nvidia GeForce 940MX<\/li>\n<li>USB Type-C socket<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The\u00a013.3-inch model weighs 1.28kg, and is set to sell for\u00a0$750 (R10,700).<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a012.5-inch model features an Intel Core M3 processor, integrated graphics, and a 128GB SSD, and is set to sell for\u00a0$525 (R7,500).<\/p>\n<p>Both models are scheduled to go on sale in China from 2 August.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More hardware news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/173286-how-much-it-costs-to-build-your-own-apple-mac-pro-in-south-africa.html\">How much it costs to build your own Apple Mac Pro in South Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/173378-nvidia-unveils-its-fastest-ever-graphics-card.html\">Nvidia unveils its fastest-ever graphics card<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xiaomi has entered the laptop market, unveiling its Mi Notebook Air on 27 July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":173736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[36,38288,21201],"class_list":["post-173734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-active","tag-mi-notebook-air","tag-xiaomi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173740,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173734\/revisions\/173740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}